New York State Employment-Related Guidance in the Time of COVID-19
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About This PDF
This program helps avoid layoffs by allowing non-exempt employees with reduced hours to receive partial unemployment payments from the State of New York for up to 26 weeks. It is a great alternative to layoffs and helps employees supplement their lowered salaries when their hours are reduced. Implementing a shared work plan will help you retain your already trained, valuable support staff, which will spare you the expense of recruiting and on-boarding new employees once the COVID-19 pandemic subsides.
Getting Ready for Your State of New York Takeout
In this Lunch and Learn, Jamie Brown, New York program manager for the Land Trust Alliance and Brad Burns, staff attorney at the Open Space Institute will help you understand the complexities that come with selling land to the state of New York and help create a smoother sale.
2024 New York Land Conservation Conference
Join your peers from a spectrum of land, water and community-centered conservation organizations from across New York! With educational sessions, field trips, networking opportunities and more, the conference is essential for anyone working in the New York land conservation sector.
New York State Forest Action Plan
The State Forest Action Plan is a 10-year strategic plan for New York's forestry community. The purpose of the Plan is to provide long‐term, comprehensive, coordinated strategies for investing state, federal and leveraged partner resources in major management and landscape priorities.
New York Board Intensive
This five-part session is designed to orient new board members to Land Trust Standards and Practices and introduce them to the members of the New York land trust community. Executive directors are also welcome to join.
New York Land Trust Atlas
This map, created by The Nature Conservancy, contains the service areas of the land trusts and other land organizations that operate partially or completely within New York State. It was designed to connect individuals, advocacy groups and municipalities and to demonstrate opportunities for land protection and collaboration.
O'Mara v Town of Wappinger
Finding no state case law on the enforceability of a zoning regulation imposed through a subdivision process, the Second Circuit certified this question to the New York Court of Appeals, which found such a regulation enforceable under New York law.
Financial Management in the Time of COVID-19
Solid financial management is the cornerstone of successful land conservation. Here are some related questions and answers, adapted from BoardSource, to help guide your land trust through this difficult time
New York State Wildlife Action Plan
A wildlife action plan serves as a state's guiding document for managing and conserving species and habitats before they become too rare or costly to restore. Congress charged states and territories to develop a State Wildlife Action Plan in 2002, and the New York Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy was completed in 2005.
Mohonk Trust v. Board of Assessors of Town of Gardiner
New York Court of Appeals held that environmental and conservation purposes are charitable within the meaning of New York's property tax exemption statute, and that especially where conservation land is open to and enjoyed by the public, it should enjoy exemption.
Into the Western New York Wildway
In 2020, the Western New York Land Conservancy introduced the Western New York Wildway. The WNY Wildway will be an extensive series of protected lands that connect the vast forests of northern Pennsylvania to the Great Lakes, through to the Finger Lakes, the Adirondacks and beyond.