Stefanik hosts grant application workshop in West Potsdam

Ms. Stefanik explained that she hosts these workshops on an annual basis across the 21st Congressional District.

“As we know, we need this funding in this region,” Ms. Stefanik said. “I know that all of our fire departments work incredibly hard every single day, 365 days a year, answering hundreds of calls throughout the year whether it is below freezing or in the hot summer.”

The workshops, she said, are intended to help make locally written grants successful.

Ms. Stefanik took a moment to take a few questions from media.

Ms. Stefanik said she was against any closure of local prisons.

“They are a really important part of our job opportunities in St. Lawrence County,” she said. “We work very closely with our state senators and state assemblymen and women to make sure that Albany understands the importance of these facilities.”

In regard to the controversy over the distribution of sales taxes in St. Lawrence County, Ms. Stefanik said she was against legislators on any level balancing budgets on the backs of taxpayers.

“The problem I have that many of our counties are facing is that Albany continues to push these mandates onto the counties,” she said. “That puts the county legislators in a challenging position because they don’t have a vote in Albany.”