I agree completely Ms. Bellin with every aspect of your statement. I'm in if I can be of service!

Please organize a meeting soon and post here I will attend and participate to the fullest capacity. i know that I have two other "intelligent minds" that will also help.

I agree. NYMA staying open another year is great, however I believe it may just be a band-aid for a much deeper problem. We need voice our opinions, keep the momentum going, and keep a watch out for what may be brewing.
Rose Tamberino

I would like to highlight something I said in my letter: I do not profess to know the answer that is right for Cornwall. I would also like to add that whatever is right to do would take community involvement by many and a leader with more experience than I have. I think we had a wake up call and only we as a community of residents
can stay awake and plan now for the future...whatever it may hold, good or bad.

Everyone should educate themselves as to the current financial condition of NYMA. Since NYMA is a 501C (non-profit) they are obliged under federal law to avail themselves of their financial status via an IRS 990 tax filing. Everyone can go and view their (NYMA's) most recent tax return and then decide for yourselves if this school is viable with the current scheme being promulugated. I would argue otherwise but you be the judge. Simply go to www.guidestar.com and you can legally pull up NYMA's most recent tax return and see their income and expenses and assets and liablities.

Perhaps I should have been more direct. Talk...get residents to be more aware. Do they even know about this site? Do you know a neighbor or acquaintance who would be experienced enough to take on a leadership role and garner assistance from many in the community? Are you that person yourself?

I'm curious as to what the reasons are for NYMA's troubles. Is the infrastructure of the school too old? Are they not competitive in their faculty recruitment? Is the demand for this kind of education waning?

It seems like some of these general questions need to be considered before too much more time and resources are put into the institution. To echo others, keeping the school afloat for another year is helpful only if the time is going to be used productively to flesh out the many different scenarios of what might happen with the school/land.

NYMA becoming a very vibrant and successful learning institution is certainly one of those scenarios, but other contingencies need to be made before they are made for the Village by outside interests.

Should NYMA not succeed, what kind of controlling interest in the land do it's debtors have?