Oneida County property management firm certified as SDVOB

ALBANY— New York State Office of General Services (OGS) Commissioner Jeanette Moy recently announced that 15 businesses across the state were certified as service-disabled veteran-owned businesses (SDVOB), including one small firm in Oneida County. The New York OGS Division of Service-Disabled Veterans’ Business Development (DSDVBD) issued the certification to C6 Property Management, which is a Clinton–based firm specializing in property management services, the OGS announced on Oct. 18. Elsewhere in upstate New York, BrownRock Property Management, a site-preparation contractor located in Canandaigua; C&N Pizza Works, a Rochester–based operator of limited-service restaurants; and businesses in Troy, Glens Falls, Orchard Park, and Grand Island were also recently certified as SDVOBs. The DSDVBD was created by New York State government in May 2014 through passage of the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business Act. The state had 1,279 certified businesses, as of the Oct. 18 announcement. For a business to receive certification, one or more service-disabled veterans — with a service-connected disability rating of 10 percent or more from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (or from the New York State Division of Veterans’ Affairs for National Guard veterans) — must own at least 51 percent of the company. Other criteria include: the business has to be independently owned and operated and have a significant business presence in New York, it must have conducted business for at least one year prior to the application date, and it must qualify as a small business under the New York State program. Several more requirements also need to be met.