Saturday, March 29, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
THE YONKERS ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY BENEFITS: PUBLIC FORUM TODAY AT 2:30PM RIVERFRONT LIBRARY YONKERS
THE YONKERS ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY BENEFITS
INVITES YOU TO ATTEND A PUBLIC FORUM
ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOWNTOWN YONKERS.
PLEASE SEE ATTACHED INFORMATION
Join Us to Discuss Ongoing Efforts to Ensure the
Redevelopment of Downtown Yonkers Meets
Community Needs
WHO: The Yonkers Alliance for Community Benefits
(Coordinating Committee members listed on reverse side)
WHEN & WHERE:
Thursday March 27th, 2008
2:30 - 4pm
Riverfront Library
Downtown Yonkers
7 - 9pm
Nepperhan Community Center
342 Warburton Avenue
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 7 - 9pm
Will Library
1500 Central Park Avenue
Please join the Yonkers Alliance for Community Benefits to discuss our
continuing efforts to ensure that the Struever-Fidelco-Cappelli (“SFC”)
development project in downtown Yonkers is respectful of our quality of life and
beneficial to our community.
We know that Yonkers residents share our concerns about how redevelopment
in Yonkers will affect our community. We also know that, if done appropriately,
with community input, redevelopment can be beneficial for developer and
community alike.
To ensure that concerns around the SFC development are addressed, and that
potential benefits of the development are shared by Yonkers residents, including
those most directly affected, the Alliance intends to negotiate a Community
Benefits Agreement (“CBA”) with SFC. A CBA is a legally binding agreement
between a community and a developer that identifies specific commitments the
developer will make to address community needs and concerns.
Negotiating an effective CBA will also set a strong precedent for future
development in Yonkers. By joining us, you will show your support for
responsible development in Yonkers.
For more information about these forums, please contact:
Greg Arcaro of the Community Planning Council of Yonkers
914-969-3616, cpcyonkers@yahoo.com
or
Vernon Brinkley, Groundwork Yonkers
914-375-2151, vernon@groundworkyonkers.org
The Yonkers Alliance for Community Benefits
About the Alliance:
• The Alliance is a coalition of the Yonkers’ leading nonprofit organizations, community
residents, and advocates committed to responsible development for our city.
• Alliance members have expertise in the areas of jobs, housing, youth, social services, the
environment, the arts, education, business, and faith-based concerns.
The Alliance’s Coordinating Committee includes:
CAUCUS REPRESENTATIVES
ARTS, CUTURE, & HISTORY *Timothy Fowlkes
JOB DEVELOPMENT *Connie Fowler
James Hassell
EDUCATION Gail Baxter
Rosemary Uzzo
Julie Weiner
ENVIRONMENT *Nortrud Spero
Gail Averill
Rick Magder
FAITH BASED *Paula Crawford
Carol Blakney
FAMILIES & INDIVIDUALS *Jim Bostic
Toni Volchok
Linda Heyward
HOUSING *Diana Brown-Temple
MINORITY, WOMEN AND *Marlin Wiggins
SMALL BUSINESS Yon Zweibon
*CHAIR
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LAWYERS FOR THE ALLIANCE
Milbank, Tweed: Jonathan Green jgreen@milbank.com
Eliza McDougall emcdougall@milbank.com
NY Lawyers for the Public Interest Gavin Kearney gkearney@nylpi.org
INVITES YOU TO ATTEND A PUBLIC FORUM
ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOWNTOWN YONKERS.
PLEASE SEE ATTACHED INFORMATION
Join Us to Discuss Ongoing Efforts to Ensure the
Redevelopment of Downtown Yonkers Meets
Community Needs
WHO: The Yonkers Alliance for Community Benefits
(Coordinating Committee members listed on reverse side)
WHEN & WHERE:
Thursday March 27th, 2008
2:30 - 4pm
Riverfront Library
Downtown Yonkers
7 - 9pm
Nepperhan Community Center
342 Warburton Avenue
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 7 - 9pm
Will Library
1500 Central Park Avenue
Please join the Yonkers Alliance for Community Benefits to discuss our
continuing efforts to ensure that the Struever-Fidelco-Cappelli (“SFC”)
development project in downtown Yonkers is respectful of our quality of life and
beneficial to our community.
We know that Yonkers residents share our concerns about how redevelopment
in Yonkers will affect our community. We also know that, if done appropriately,
with community input, redevelopment can be beneficial for developer and
community alike.
To ensure that concerns around the SFC development are addressed, and that
potential benefits of the development are shared by Yonkers residents, including
those most directly affected, the Alliance intends to negotiate a Community
Benefits Agreement (“CBA”) with SFC. A CBA is a legally binding agreement
between a community and a developer that identifies specific commitments the
developer will make to address community needs and concerns.
Negotiating an effective CBA will also set a strong precedent for future
development in Yonkers. By joining us, you will show your support for
responsible development in Yonkers.
For more information about these forums, please contact:
Greg Arcaro of the Community Planning Council of Yonkers
914-969-3616, cpcyonkers@yahoo.com
or
Vernon Brinkley, Groundwork Yonkers
914-375-2151, vernon@groundworkyonkers.org
The Yonkers Alliance for Community Benefits
About the Alliance:
• The Alliance is a coalition of the Yonkers’ leading nonprofit organizations, community
residents, and advocates committed to responsible development for our city.
• Alliance members have expertise in the areas of jobs, housing, youth, social services, the
environment, the arts, education, business, and faith-based concerns.
The Alliance’s Coordinating Committee includes:
CAUCUS REPRESENTATIVES
ARTS, CUTURE, & HISTORY *Timothy Fowlkes
JOB DEVELOPMENT *Connie Fowler
James Hassell
EDUCATION Gail Baxter
Rosemary Uzzo
Julie Weiner
ENVIRONMENT *Nortrud Spero
Gail Averill
Rick Magder
FAITH BASED *Paula Crawford
Carol Blakney
FAMILIES & INDIVIDUALS *Jim Bostic
Toni Volchok
Linda Heyward
HOUSING *Diana Brown-Temple
MINORITY, WOMEN AND *Marlin Wiggins
SMALL BUSINESS Yon Zweibon
*CHAIR
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LAWYERS FOR THE ALLIANCE
Milbank, Tweed: Jonathan Green jgreen@milbank.com
Eliza McDougall emcdougall@milbank.com
NY Lawyers for the Public Interest Gavin Kearney gkearney@nylpi.org
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Riverfront Library, 1 Larkin Center, 7:00pm: Public Comment on the New Castle sewage diversion to Yonkers proposal
By now you may have heard that Westchester County has reintroduced its proposal for sewage diversion from New Castle to Yonkers. This was the wrong proposal when we first opposed it several years ago; it is the wrong proposal now.
There will be a meeting at Yonkers Riverfront Library (1 Larkin Center, across from the Yonkers Metro-North station) on Wednesday, March 26 at 7:00 PM, including officials representing both Westchester County and the Town of New Castle, during which public comment will be heard. I urge you to please attend.
The Yonkers Wastewater Treatment Plant, by far the County's largest such facility, has been overwhelmed for years by over 100 million gallons a day of effluent on average, from over two dozen municipalities, despite a design capacity of 92 million gallons a day. Predictably, the Yonkers plant is the site of endless spills and overflows, regularly fouling the air that we breathe, and polluting the water of our beautiful Hudson River with untreated human waste. Yet the County has so far refused to take any comprehensive look at the totality of new impacts on the Yonkers plant stemming from new development in Yonkers, White Plains, Sleepy Hollow and elsewhere, instead certifying each project as somehow having no effect on the plant's capacity. This irresponsible nonsense has got to stop.
Now, yet again, the County proposes to once more expand the area served by the Yonkers plant. Unbelievably, despite the passage of legislation in November of 2003 designating funds for a study of alternative solutions to New Castle's sewage treatment problems, both the County and the Town of New Castle have instead chosen to do nothing at all -- until now, crying "Emergency!" they again designate Yonkers as the natural solution to everyone's sewage treatment needs.
The Town of New Castle has allowed mismanaged development to threaten the Croton watershed. Despite being under court order to remedy the situation, New Castle has taken no action, instead counting on their allies to spend millions of dollars to build a big pipe so that their effluent can be pumped to Yonkers, now and in the future. But Yonkers is already besieged by a looming environmental disaster at its chronically overburdened facility! Yonkers cannot always and forever be the only solution to everyone else's self-inflicted mess.
Please pass along notice of the Yonkers meeting on March 26 (again: Riverfront Library, 1 Larkin Center, 7:00 PM), and please remind your County legislators where they should stand on these crucial environmental issues.
Many thanks,
David Pannett
Ludlow Park, Yonkers
There will be a meeting at Yonkers Riverfront Library (1 Larkin Center, across from the Yonkers Metro-North station) on Wednesday, March 26 at 7:00 PM, including officials representing both Westchester County and the Town of New Castle, during which public comment will be heard. I urge you to please attend.
The Yonkers Wastewater Treatment Plant, by far the County's largest such facility, has been overwhelmed for years by over 100 million gallons a day of effluent on average, from over two dozen municipalities, despite a design capacity of 92 million gallons a day. Predictably, the Yonkers plant is the site of endless spills and overflows, regularly fouling the air that we breathe, and polluting the water of our beautiful Hudson River with untreated human waste. Yet the County has so far refused to take any comprehensive look at the totality of new impacts on the Yonkers plant stemming from new development in Yonkers, White Plains, Sleepy Hollow and elsewhere, instead certifying each project as somehow having no effect on the plant's capacity. This irresponsible nonsense has got to stop.
Now, yet again, the County proposes to once more expand the area served by the Yonkers plant. Unbelievably, despite the passage of legislation in November of 2003 designating funds for a study of alternative solutions to New Castle's sewage treatment problems, both the County and the Town of New Castle have instead chosen to do nothing at all -- until now, crying "Emergency!" they again designate Yonkers as the natural solution to everyone's sewage treatment needs.
The Town of New Castle has allowed mismanaged development to threaten the Croton watershed. Despite being under court order to remedy the situation, New Castle has taken no action, instead counting on their allies to spend millions of dollars to build a big pipe so that their effluent can be pumped to Yonkers, now and in the future. But Yonkers is already besieged by a looming environmental disaster at its chronically overburdened facility! Yonkers cannot always and forever be the only solution to everyone else's self-inflicted mess.
Please pass along notice of the Yonkers meeting on March 26 (again: Riverfront Library, 1 Larkin Center, 7:00 PM), and please remind your County legislators where they should stand on these crucial environmental issues.
Many thanks,
David Pannett
Ludlow Park, Yonkers
Bring It On: More Crap destined for Yonkers
To read the JOURNAL NEWS article:
http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080326/NEWS02/803260333/1246/NEWS0224
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
City Council MeetingTonight 8:00pm
The agenda can be found at:
http://www.cityofyonkers.com/index.aspx?recordid=1686&page=23
http://www.cityofyonkers.com/index.aspx?recordid=1686&page=23
Enviromental Policy and Protection Committee Meeting Tonight at 7:00pm
Environmental Policy & Protection Committee Meeting
Date: 3/25/2008 7:00 PM
Location: YONKERS CITY HALL
40 South Broadway, 4th Floor
Yonkers, New York 10701
Please be advised that I have scheduled an Environmental Policy & Protection Committee Meeting for Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 7:00 P.M. in the City Council Conference Room, 4th Floor, City Hall.
The following item(s) will be discussed:
Annabi- Resolution opposing the diversion of up –county waste materials to the Yonkers Treatment Plant
McDow- Resolution requesting North Castle Sewerage Diversion and County Public Hearing
Misc. –to consider any other item(s) that may properly come before the Committee.
I would ask the Administration to please have the appropriate Commissioners/Departments Heads/Directors or their representatives attend so they can address issues relating to their departments.
Please make every effort to attend.
Thank You,
Liam J. McLaughlin
Chair
Date: 3/25/2008 7:00 PM
Location: YONKERS CITY HALL
40 South Broadway, 4th Floor
Yonkers, New York 10701
Please be advised that I have scheduled an Environmental Policy & Protection Committee Meeting for Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 7:00 P.M. in the City Council Conference Room, 4th Floor, City Hall.
The following item(s) will be discussed:
Annabi- Resolution opposing the diversion of up –county waste materials to the Yonkers Treatment Plant
McDow- Resolution requesting North Castle Sewerage Diversion and County Public Hearing
Misc. –to consider any other item(s) that may properly come before the Committee.
I would ask the Administration to please have the appropriate Commissioners/Departments Heads/Directors or their representatives attend so they can address issues relating to their departments.
Please make every effort to attend.
Thank You,
Liam J. McLaughlin
Chair
Municipal Operations Meeting Tonight at 6:30pm City Hall
MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING
Date: 3/25/2008 6:30 PM
Location: YONKERS CITY HALL
40 South Broadway, 4th Floor
Yonkers, New York 10701
Please be advised a Municipal Operations Committee Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, March 25th at 6:30 p.m., City Hall, City Council Chambers, 4th floor.
Items for Discussion:
Continued discussion re: Emergency Plan concerning “Flooding and stormwater issues related to the Bronx River, Sprain Brook and Saw Mill River'.
Review of updated FEMA Flood Maps by Paul Summerfield, Assistant City Engineer.
By copy of this memo to the Administration, we invite DPW Commissioner John Liszewski, Paul Summerfield, Assistant City Engineer and John Donaghy, Director of Yonkers Civil Defense/Emergency Services. Additionally I am requesting that the meeting be televised.
Please advise. Thank you.
Dee Barbato, Co-Chair Municipal Operations
Council Member, District 6
Joan Gronowski, Co-Chair Municipal Operations
Council Member, District 3
Date: 3/25/2008 6:30 PM
Location: YONKERS CITY HALL
40 South Broadway, 4th Floor
Yonkers, New York 10701
Please be advised a Municipal Operations Committee Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, March 25th at 6:30 p.m., City Hall, City Council Chambers, 4th floor.
Items for Discussion:
Continued discussion re: Emergency Plan concerning “Flooding and stormwater issues related to the Bronx River, Sprain Brook and Saw Mill River'.
Review of updated FEMA Flood Maps by Paul Summerfield, Assistant City Engineer.
By copy of this memo to the Administration, we invite DPW Commissioner John Liszewski, Paul Summerfield, Assistant City Engineer and John Donaghy, Director of Yonkers Civil Defense/Emergency Services. Additionally I am requesting that the meeting be televised.
Please advise. Thank you.
Dee Barbato, Co-Chair Municipal Operations
Council Member, District 6
Joan Gronowski, Co-Chair Municipal Operations
Council Member, District 3
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Education Committee Meeting Tonight City Hall Yonkers 5:30pm
Education Committee Meeting
Date: 3/11/2008 5:30 PM
Location: City Council Conference Room
City Hall, 40 South Broadway
Yonkers, New York 10701
Please be advised that an Education Committee Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 5:30 P.M. in the City Council Conference Room, 4th Floor, City Hall.
The following item(s) will be discussed:
1. General Ordinance - amending Chapter 74 of the city code entitled “firearms” by adding a new Section regarding possession of knives, box cutters and dangerous weapons.
2. Resolution supporting restoration of Social Worker positions to the Yonkers Public Schools.
3. All other business properly coming before the Committee
Date: 3/11/2008 5:30 PM
Location: City Council Conference Room
City Hall, 40 South Broadway
Yonkers, New York 10701
Please be advised that an Education Committee Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 5:30 P.M. in the City Council Conference Room, 4th Floor, City Hall.
The following item(s) will be discussed:
1. General Ordinance - amending Chapter 74 of the city code entitled “firearms” by adding a new Section regarding possession of knives, box cutters and dangerous weapons.
2. Resolution supporting restoration of Social Worker positions to the Yonkers Public Schools.
3. All other business properly coming before the Committee
Legislation & Codes Committee Meeting Tonight at 6:00pm
Legislation & Codes Committee Meeting
Date: 3/11/2008 6:00 PM
Location: City Council Conference Room
City Hall, 40 South Broadway
Yonkers, New York 10701
Please be advised that a Legislation & Codes Committee Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, March 11, 2008, at 6:00 PM in the Council Conference Room, City Hall, 4th Floor.
The following items will be on the Agenda:
1. Resolution seeking to safeguard City Funds granted to agencies such as the South Broadway BID. (Invited speakers on this item include the Director and Board Chairman).
2. General Ordinance – amending Chapter 20 of the City Code entitled Food Vendors, Hawking, Peddling, Transient Business And Home Solicitation in regard to fees.
3. General Ordinance – amending Chapter 22 of the City Code entitled Billposting and Distribution in regard to identification badges.
4. Any additional items that may properly come before this Committee.
Date: 3/11/2008 6:00 PM
Location: City Council Conference Room
City Hall, 40 South Broadway
Yonkers, New York 10701
Please be advised that a Legislation & Codes Committee Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, March 11, 2008, at 6:00 PM in the Council Conference Room, City Hall, 4th Floor.
The following items will be on the Agenda:
1. Resolution seeking to safeguard City Funds granted to agencies such as the South Broadway BID. (Invited speakers on this item include the Director and Board Chairman).
2. General Ordinance – amending Chapter 20 of the City Code entitled Food Vendors, Hawking, Peddling, Transient Business And Home Solicitation in regard to fees.
3. General Ordinance – amending Chapter 22 of the City Code entitled Billposting and Distribution in regard to identification badges.
4. Any additional items that may properly come before this Committee.
City of Yonkers Real Estate Committee Meeting Tonight at 7:00pm
Please be advised that a Real Estate Committee Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 7:00 PM in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 4th Floor.
The following items will be on the Agenda:
1. Lead Agency requests that its consultant’s make themselves available for an update on the SFC Project.
2. Any additional items that may properly come before this Committee.
LAST MINUTE UPDATE:
Please be advised that another item has been added to the agenda:
Resolution - reauthorizing the Mayor to enter into negotiations with Milio Management, Inc. for the conveyance and redevelopment of surplus property.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Yonkers IDA and I.Park N-VALLEY 1st Amendment to Payment in Lieu of Tax Agreement
Yonkers IDA and I.Park N-VALLEY 1st Amendment to Payment in Lieu of Tax Agreement now available exclusively at FOIL Yonkers website. Click on the link below.
http://foilyonkers.blogspot.com/2008/03/yonkers-ida-and-ipark-n-valley-1st.html
http://foilyonkers.blogspot.com/2008/03/yonkers-ida-and-ipark-n-valley-1st.html
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Language of Developers: From the No Land Grab website
Here's an excerpt:
Statement: "Our design is meant to respect the historical and architectural context of the neighborhood."
Translation: "This building is not as big and ugly as we'd like it to be."
Statement: "We support the approval process."
Translation: "We promised City Hall we'd go through the motions."
To read the whole list go to:
http://lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/2008/03/language-of-developers-and-how-to.html
Statement: "Our design is meant to respect the historical and architectural context of the neighborhood."
Translation: "This building is not as big and ugly as we'd like it to be."
Statement: "We support the approval process."
Translation: "We promised City Hall we'd go through the motions."
To read the whole list go to:
http://lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/2008/03/language-of-developers-and-how-to.html
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Rules Committee at 6:30pm, followed by Real Estate Committee Meeting at 7:00pm Tonight
Please be advised that a Real Estate Committee Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 7:00 PM in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 4th Floor.
The following items will be on the Agenda:
1. General Ordinance – amending Chapter 45 of the Code the City of Yonkers also known as “Historic and Landmark Preservation” in regard to Demolition.
2. Lead Agency requests that its consultant’s make themselves available for an update on the SFC Project.
3. Any additional items that may properly come before this Committee.
We ask the Administration to please have the appropriate Commissioners/Departments Heads/Directors or their representatives attend the meeting so they can address issues relating to their departments.
The following items will be on the Agenda:
1. General Ordinance – amending Chapter 45 of the Code the City of Yonkers also known as “Historic and Landmark Preservation” in regard to Demolition.
2. Lead Agency requests that its consultant’s make themselves available for an update on the SFC Project.
3. Any additional items that may properly come before this Committee.
We ask the Administration to please have the appropriate Commissioners/Departments Heads/Directors or their representatives attend the meeting so they can address issues relating to their departments.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
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