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Mushroom plant release stresses jobs
By Victor Whitman
Times Herald-Record
March 17, 2006
Wurtsboro - Is it about jobs? Or is it about good public relations before a contentious public hearing?
Officials of Yukiguni Maitake, the company proposing to build a mushroom plant on Route 209 - the subject of another public hearing April 27 before the Town of Mamakating Planning Board - issued a news release yesterday spelling out the 210 jobs that would be created by the plant, including job titles. The company released the same job breakdown in its environmental impact statement more than a year ago.
"No media has published the numbers before," said Focus Media's Josh Sommers, who is handling the company's public relations. "We thought it was relevant to some of the public discussions."
What isn't in the release, however, is what the plant's opponents have been pressing for: How much will the jobs pay? Company officials have declined to release those figures, saying they can't predict the job market in two years, which is when the plant is scheduled to open.
Opponents said the news release is another ploy to sell the plant, which still has to get site plan approval from the Planning Board. The project has met with stiff opposition from environmentalists and town residents.
"It is hocus-pocus," said resident Eileen Haworth Weil.
The release states that the company will initially employ 50 people, then ramp up to 210 employees in a couple of phases.
The jobs include a plant manager; chief executive officer; chief operations officer; four operation instructors; five department managers; 17 line managers; 25 senior/supervisory line staff and 120 junior line staff, among other positions.
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