Vol. 37, No. 34 3 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2019
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Medline meeting packs VC
Employees, residents and county’s largest players turn out
of jobs to be created would be $37,000
before bonuses and the annual salary
range of jobs to be created is $33,000
to $69,000, according to Medline’s
application for assistance with the Town
of Montgomery Industrial Development
Agency (IDA). With benefits and bonuses,
the estimated salaries are $50,000 for
production, $77,000 for drivers, and
$137,000 for management.
Several Medline employees spoke to
express their support for the project,
stating they would like to stay in the
area rather than move if the company
could not find a suitable site in the
county.
“I’m very excited about Medline
wanting to stay in Montgomery and I’m
happy that Medline wants to protect
my job and keep me here,” Medline
employee Allan Malansun said. Continued on page 4 Continued on page 4
Richard Phelps
Montgomery residents turned out in
force to express their concerns and a
crowd of Medline employees expressed
their support for a proposed 1.3-million-
square-foot
Medline
Industries
distribution center in a packed public
hearing on Aug. 13.
Located on the east side of NYS
Route 416 and north of Interstate I-84,
the warehouse is proposed in the Town
of Montgomery, just outside Village of
Montgomery limits. The building will
replace the outgrown 500,000-square-
foot facility in Wawayanda, which
employs 320 workers, according to the
Draft Environmental Impact Statement
(DEIS).
Dmitry Dukhan, Vice President
of Real Estate for Medline, assured
residents the company would be a good
neighbor to the Village of Montgomery
and a fair employer.
“Medline Industries is a fourth
generation, privately held manufacturer
and distributor of Medline products and
services. We are the largest provider
of full-spectrum healthcare services
for the full continuum of health care,”
Dukhan said. “This project by far is the
biggest investment we have ever made in
the community.”
Medline plans to create 360 new jobs
over a period of seven years, with a
total of 700 jobs at full capacity. About
10 jobs will be office related, 50 will be
drivers and the rest will be warehouse
jobs, according to the DEIS. Dukhan said
Medline estimates about 250 new hires
will come from the Town of Montgomery
and the surrounding area.
The average estimated annual salary
By TED REMSNYDER
Valley Central voters flocked to the
polls on Tuesday to decide the fate of the
school district’s proposed $22.7 million
bond referendum package, but local
taxpayers got a chance to voice their
opinions on the proposal in advance of
the balloting during a public hearing on
the project during a school board meeting
on Aug. 12.
The district’s The Traffic, Safety and
STEAM (science,
t e c h n o l o g y,
Traffic, Safety
engineering, arts
and mathematics)
and STEAM Bond
proposal would
Project
fund a number of
(Unofficial results)
items if approved,
YES 555
including
the
renovation
of
NO 585
the High School-
Middle
School
complex parking
lot, the construction of a STEAM
classroom, a concession stand near the
football field and a pool dehumidification
system for the high school pool.
Resident Fran Gallaway expressed her
dismay at the price tag for the project,
noting that she wished the Board of
Education had chosen a project with
a smaller scope of work. “I came to a
meeting in April and I seem to remember
there were three presentations there in
regards to this project,” she told the board.
“There was a high of $22 million and then
there was a low of about $8 million that
was stripped down. Then there was the
middle of the road. I left that meeting
with high hopes that the board and Mr.
(Valley Central Superintendent John)
Xanthis would consider the taxpayers,
but obviously when I saw this I said,
New York State Senator James Skoufis addresses the Town of Montgomery Planning Board during the public hearing on the Medline
Warehouse’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement held in the Valley Central Middle School cafeteria to a standing room only crowd.
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
Valley Central
bond fails
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