Make yourself visible. Make yourself heard.

The next Stark Town Board meeting is on March 12^th at 7:00 pm.  The location is 703 Elwood Road in Starkville.  Please attend.

Folks,
The next Town of Stark meeting is Tuesday, March 12th at 7:00PM. We strongly encourage everyone to attend. Make yourself visible. Make yourself heard. We suspect that a decision will be made in the near future on this wind turbine project. Here is what the town’s website says about it…

February, 2024 upcoming Events for the Town of Stark

The Town of Stark Board Meeting for February is Tuesday February 13, at 7:00 PM in the Town of Stark Justice Court Building located at 703 Elwood Road in Starkville. (1/22/2024).  (Update for Board Meeting on 2/13/2024) The Developer for the Windmill Project will now be meeting with Town of Stark Special Counsel and Review Engineer after the Town Board Meeting to be held on February 13, 2024. The parties involved will be meeting later in the week.  Because of the amount of information received from the public comment, more time to review was taken.  Anyone wanting to attend the Town Board Meeting is welcome to attend, but any new information regarding the topic will be limited much as it was at the January meeting. The March 12 meeting will have much more information available, providing no further delays occur. We apologize for this delay.  

The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) will not be available until it is deemed to be complete. This may occur in March at the March 12, 2024 meeting. When it is deemed complete, copies will be made available to the public through the Town of Stark website and the New Leaf website. 

NOTICE OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD AND HEARING FOR DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (DEIS)

The Town Board of the Town of Stark has accepted a draft Environmental Impact Statement for the New Leaf Stark 1 and Stark 2 Wind Farm. The proposal involves the installation of two (2) wind turbines with associated  electrical equipment to generate up to 5 MW each (10 MW total). Each turbine will have a hub height of 394 feet and overall height of 650 feet.

The proposed Community Distributed Generation turbine project will be located at 489 Sickler Road (Town of Stark, Herkimer County) and 741 County Road 29 (Town of Springfield, Otsego County).

Hard copies of the DEIS are available for review at the offices of the Town Clerk of Stark and of the Town Clerk of Warren.  Copies are also at the Jordanville Public Library and the Springfield Community Center. The applicant (New Leaf Energy) has posted the documents on their website: https://www.newleafenergy.com/project/stark-wind.

Public Comments were received after the hearing on November 14, 2023 until November 30, 2023 to allow additional written comment to be filed. At the request of the Town of Springfield, their comments were extended until December 15, 2023. New Leaf Energy is now reviewing all comments received and will respond to the comments. New Leaf has asked for an extension for their response until at least January 31, 2024. It was granted. (Up-dated 1/22/2024) (Revised up-date) The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) will not be available until it is deemed to be complete. This may occur in March at the March 12, 2024 meeting. When it is deemed complete, copies will be made available to the public through the Town of Stark website and the New Leaf website. (Revised 2/10/2024)