Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On April 7, 2015, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer visited Riverside Park in Port Jervis to call on the federal Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to be prepared to immediately expedite approvals for a new white water park in Port Jervis that the city has been hoping to build for a number of years. The city has already submitted its application to FWS and is finalizing its application to USACE; approvals from both agencies are needed in order for the project to move forward and for the city to begin to raise the $2-$4 million needed to make the park a reality. Schumer urged both FWS and USACE to work together to get this project over the finish line and put both agencies on notice to be ready to expedite Port Jervis’s application. Schumer was joined by City of Port Jervis Mayor Kelly B. Decker; Valerie Maginsky, Executive Director of the Port Jervis Community Development Agency, Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus, and various local and county-wide officials.