It takes hard work to attract and keep businesses. And that s why some of the recent news in Fulton is so good. In just the first year, a score of businesses, large and small, have qualified for New York State s best deals on cut rate energy, wage tax credits, and capital expansion assistance. 4 The Cayuga Community College campus on Fulton s westside provides a pool of qualified workers for local businesses. After just two years, the college is training more than 600 students in the latest business, scientific, and management skills.
Work is under way to expand the fledgling extension site to a full-fledged branch campus.
The city s infrastructure and building structures are being upgrade through increased code enforcement and the recent Pride Community Weeks sponsored are demolishing old structures and building attractive, vibrant new facilities. Our new Chocolate Festival showcased Fulton s sweetest product to 25,000 visitors from Central and Western New York. Our Jazz Festival is quickly developing a reputation as a must see program for lovers of jazz and Cajun cooking from throughout the region. It s appropriate, then, that this year when visitors come to town they ll get a visible symbol of our growth new welcome signs.