“We have a very unique resource for a suburb adjoining the city of Rochester,” Copey says. “The Braddock Bay Fish and Wildlife Management Area provides hunting and fishing opportunities that you just don’t have in other communities, especially being as close to the population center as we are.” The town’s waterfront revitalization is evident in the transformation of its 300-slip marina. Once struggling with just 26 occupied slips in 2016, the marina now boasts 270 filled berths following comprehensive improvements.“We basically replaced all the docks. They had old broken-down wooden docks, and we replaced them with new aluminum floating docks,” Copey explains. “We built a new seawall at the marina, expanded the parking, added a new fueling facility for boats, a new sanitary pump-out, and other improvements.” This revitalization included significant flood resilience measures, crucial after damaging Lake Ontario flooding events. The town secured a $1 million REDI (Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative) grant to raise the marina’s seawall above flood level and implement other protective measures. Looking ahead, Greece has planned spring 2025 dredging and long-term maintenance of the Braddock Bay navigation channel to ensure continued access to Lake Ontario. “The 300-slip marina is kind of the gem of our waterfront area in terms of public amenities,” Copey notes.The marina’s economic impact extends beyond recreation, generating approximately $175,000 direct revenue to the Town annually at full capacity while supporting the broader waterfront economy. Beyond water-based recreation, Greece maintains 15 parks townwide, managed by a dedicated Parks Department reinstated in 2014 under Supervisor Bill Reilich.“Until then, our Public Works Department maintained the parks,” Copey says.“Supervisor Reilich brought back the Parks Department with their own equipment and budget, which has really improved the quality of our parks.” BUILDING A MORE EFFICIENT TOWN The Town of Greece has embraced technological solutions to improve operational efficiency and enhance service delivery. “We’re in the midst of implementing a unified workflow system, a software system that was from a company now purchased by Trimble,” Copey explains.“We started with our Public Works Department, taking an old archaic system for work orders and service requests and implementing a module of that software to gain efficiency. People were passing paper back and forth for work orders, and now it’s all digital.” This digital transformation covers multiple departments, creating an integrated information 37 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 06 GREECE, NY
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