Board of Contract and Supply Meeting Today at City Hall

The Board of Contract and Supply is holding it's monthly meeting today at the Mayors Reception Room at City Hall at 10:30am. This meeting is not publically noticed anywhere, including the City of Yonkers Website.

Ethics Board Meeting 7:00pm in the Mayors Reception Room: City Hall Yonkers

The Ethics Board will meet in the Mayors Conference Room City Hall Thursday May 30th at 7:00pm

Special Board Meeting of the Yonkers Downtown Development Corporation at 5:00pm Wednesday

Special Board Meeting of the Yonkers Downtown Development Corporation at 5:00pm Wednesday at City Hall in the Mayor's reception room 2nd floor

Budget Hearing Tuesday at 7:00pm at Mark Twain Middle School

At 7:00 PM at the Mark Twain Middle School auditorium, the City Council will hold a PUBLIC HEARING on the proposed 2008 budget. Mark Twain Middle School is located at 160 Woodlawn Avenue, Yonkers, 10704.

Real Estate Committee Meets Tuesday at City Hall 5:30pm

Please be advised that a Real Estate Committee Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 5:30 P.M. in the Council Chambers, City Hall, Fourth Floor.

The following items will be on the agenda:

1. Resolution requesting discontinuance of certain lands used for park purposes.

2. Resolution in support of legislation for the discontinuance of certain lands used for park purposes in the Getty Square Urban Renewal Act.

By copy of this notice, the Real Estate Committee is requesting that the Administration send a representative to the meeting.

Please make every effort to attend. Thank you.

Dennis M. Robertson Chairman, Real Estate Committee
Chuck Lesnick Co-Chairman, Real Estate Committee

Is Yonkers a Developers Paradise? RidgeHill Development Corporation Lease Up for Grabs by Ratner.

http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070527/NEWS02/705270386&template=printart

Open Space Sought in White Plains

http://lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070523/OPINION/705230321/1016/OPINION02

Exclusive Deal Sought by Cappelli in White Plains from the Journal News. Similiar to Yonkers Deal?

http://lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070525/NEWS02/705250408/1018/NEWS02&template=printart

McMANSION Meeting Tonight at 7:00pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Dee Barbato (914)377-6316

(Yonkers, NY – May 24, 2007)…Yonkers City Councilmember Dee Barbato (R-6th Dist.) announces that starting today, Thursday May 24th weekly meetings will be held by the City of Yonkers McMansion Task Force, on Thursday’s, 7pm, in the Mayors Reception Room, 2nd floor, City Hall through the month of June.

The Task Force will continue reviewing the city’s Zoning Code as it relates to floor-to-area ratios for new single and two-family homes, rebuilds of homes, and additions and extensions to existing homes.

The meeting is open to the public.

CHARTER REVISON COMMISSION MEETING CANCELLED LAST NIGHT

NO EXPLAINATION FOR CANCELLATION WAS ON THE NOTICE AT CITY HALL. NO NOTICE OF WHEN THE NEXT MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE CITY WEBSITE AS OF THURSDAY MAY 24TH 10:49pm

Reminder CHARTER REVISON COMMISSION meets Tonight City Hall at 7:00pm

Mayor's CHARTER REVISON COMMISSION MEETING, Mayor's Reception Room, 2nd Floor City Hall

SCENIC HUDSON PRESENTATION. Will Library Yonkers at 7:30pm Thursday May 24th 2007

SCENIC HUDSON presentation on alternative development for the Yonkers waterfront, WILL LIBRARY, 3rd floor meeting room

Mc Mansions Task Force Meeting Thursday at 7:00pm City Hall

7:00 PM: "McMansions" Building Task Force, City Hall, Mayor's Reception Room, 2nd Fl.

Nodine Hill Redevelopment Meeting Thursday May 24th 2007 at 6:30pm

6:30 PM: Nodine Hill Redevelopment Meeting, Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church, 320 Walnut Street see flyer at:

http://www.cityofyonkers.com/images2/Nodine%20Hill%20fLYER.pdf

Meetings For Wednesaday May 23rd all at City Hall Yonkers

Wednesday, May 23, City Hall:

5:00 PM: City Council "GREEN TASK FORCE" Meeting, Council Chambers, 4th fl.

6:00 PM: City Council Budget Committee, 6:00-9:00 pm, 4th fl.

7:00 PM: Mayor's CHARTER REVISON COMMISSION MEETING, Mayor's Reception Room, 2nd Fl.

Meetings and Public Hearings Today Tuesday at City Hall

Tuesday, May 22, Council Chambers, City Hall:
7:00 pm: City Council PUBLIC HEARING on BUDGET

7:30 pm: Committee of the Whole (public comment on any Council agenda item, to speak sign up with City Clerk's office by 3:00 pm Tuesday, 377-6020)

8:00pm: CITY COUNCIL MEETING

-- PUBLIC HEARING #1 on zone change at Consumer's Union (Truman Ave)

-- PUBLIC HEARING #2 on discontinuance of Fremont Street (off Truman Ave)

-- PUBLIC HEARING #3 on discontinuance of a portion of Stone Ave

FULL AGENDA FOR TONIGHTS CITY COUNCIL MEETING AT:

http://www.cityofyonkers.com/citycouncil/agendas07/20070517-112059.pdf

Planning Board Meeting of May 9th Now Live on YonkersTV

http://yonkerstv.blogspot.com/2007/05/planning-board-of-yonkers-only-visual.html

More Budget Hearings This Evening

Budget Hearings Today 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Robert Yasinsac Community View on Glenwood PowerStation

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070519/OPINION/705190314/1076/OPINION03

McMansions Questioned by the Journal News Op-ed

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070519/OPINION/705190315/1015/OPINION01

New Castle enacts McMansion Law

http://lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070517/NEWS02/705170403/1018&template=printart

Budget Hearings Today 6:00pm –9:00pm

Wednesday May 16th – 6:00pm –9:00pm

Scenic Hudson's Alternative Waterfront Plan in the Journal News

http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070515/NEWS02/705150360/1246/NEWS0224

A Mall Plan, a Call to Arms, a Plot of Land Still Empty

Read the story in the Metro Section of the Sunday NY Times

and go to http://www.nomallhere.com/res1280/email/index.htm

Budget Hearings Today 1:00pm-4:30pm

Monday May 14th hearings 1:00pm – 4:30pm

Yonkers IDA Public Hearing Tuesday at 5:30pm

Yonkers IDA Meeting Public Hearing

Hampton Inn & Suites
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
5:30 p.m.
Yonkers City Hall
Mayor’s Reception Room

For more information here's the link to the IDA notice

http://www.yonkersida.com/PDFs/PublicHearings/PublicHearingNotice_HamptonInn-5-15-07.pdf

Mayor of White Plains Sings a Familiar Tune

http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070510/NEWS02/705100405/1245/NEWS0223&template=printart

Charter Revision Commission meeting in the Law Department Library on the 3rd Floor at City Hall

Wednesday, 5/9 at7:00 p.m. – Meeting of Charter Revision Commission at City Hall in the Law Department Library: No notice displayed on City of Yonkers Website as of 7:28pm on 5/8/07

Tax Breaks and the Effects of Development on the Schools Questioned in adjacent Municipalities from the Journal News

White Plains and it's Tax Breaks

http://lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070508/NEWS02/705080424/1018&template=printart

New Rochelle Questions the "Empty Nester Theory" regarding School Populations

http://lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070508/NEWS02/705080351/1018/NEWS02&template=printart

Budget Hearings Start Tomorrow at 6:30pm City Hall and can be seen on TV

Wednesday May 9th hearings will now start at 6:30pm

Monday May 14th hearings will now take place 1:00pm – 4:30pm

All other dates and times will remain as previously scheduled.

We will distribute a finalized list with department schedules as soon as we have confirmation from all departments

Thank you, Liam J. McLaughlin Budget Chair
Dennis M. Robertson Budget Co-Chair

We have put together a tentative schedule for the Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Hearings. We are trying to finalize the Department meeting times; it appears the dates will be as follows:

Wednesday May 9th – 6:00pm – 9:00pm 6:30- 8:30pm
Monday May 14th – 6:00pm –9:00pm 1:00- 4:30pm
Wednesday May 16th – 6:00pm –9:00pm
Monday May 21st – 6:00pm –9:00pm
Wednesday May 23rd – 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Public Hearing (tentative) –Tuesday May 22nd – City Hall
Public Hearing (tentative) – Tuesday May 29th – Location & time to be determined
We will distribute a finalized list with department schedules as soon as we have confirmation from all departments. Please note that we are requesting for all Budget Hearings to be televised.

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FinalScopingDocument041907.pdf

Planning Board Wednesday May 10th at 5:30pm

PLANNING Board will meet beginning at 5:30 pm, Wednesday, May 9 in the City Council Chambers.

RidgeHill is back before the Planing Board see agenda item # 8 below

http://www.cityofyonkers.com/planning/agendas%2007/p-5-9-07.htm

City Council regular scheduled meeting at 8:00 pm May 8th

The Yonkers City Council will hold its regularly scheduled meeting at 8:00 pm in the Council chambers, Tuesday, May 8. If you wish to speak on any agenda item at the "Committee of the Whole" starting at 7:30 pm, you must sign up with the City Clerk (377-6020) by 3:00 pm Tuesday.

http://www.cityofyonkers.com/citycouncil/agendas07/20070503-145444.pdf

Playing the Tables: Many connected to Yonkers Development Playing Dice in this Village Voice Article.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0718,robbins,76509,2.html

What Type of City Do You Want? e-mail and tell us.

Send e-mails to communityfirst@verizon.net. We will publish all points of view.

An Op-Ed on White Plains and it's development direction from the JN

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070501/OPINION/705010321/1015/OPINION01&template=printart