Local gov't contacts for Team Garden

Potential gov’t. contacts for community garden project:

Natural Areas Commission:

Chair: Zev Ross

Planning & Development Board:

Chair: John Schroeder

Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency:

Chair: Carolyn K. Peterson

Environment and Neighborhood Quality Committee:

Chair: Alderperson Robin Holtham Korherr

Planning & Economic Development Committee:

Chair: Alderperson Mary Tomlan

City Clerk’s Office: 108 Green Street, 607-274-6570

Planning & Development Department: 607-274-6550

Email: dgrunder@cityofithaca.org

Director: H. Matthys VanCort

more to come...

Whole Community Project team

Here are some links that I shared with my team early on, but which might also be of interest to the rest of the class. The list is of important organizations/groups in the County which support childhood obesity prevention in some way, but more generally it provides a picture of Tompkins County as a system:

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County (Check out the BuyLocal, low-income CSA share, nutrition, and youth services/4-H pages)

Human Services Coalition

Ithaca Free Clinic

Buy Local Food Campaign Gains Momentum in Ithaca

Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC)

Southside Community Center

Brooktondale Community Center

Food Bank of the Southern Tier

Greenstar Cooperative Market

Tompkins Community Action

Ithaca Youth Bureau

Tompkins County Legislature

Ithaca City Planning Office

Tompkins County Planning Department

Tompkins County-Ithaca YMCA

Ithaca Public Education Initiative

Ithaca City School District

Trumansburg Central Schools

Newfield Central Schools

Lansing Central Schools

Groton Central Schools

Dryden Central Schools