WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER 837,641 VISITORS MADE 2,785,380 VISITS IN 1 YEAR SEP 4 2022-SEP 4 2023 680 VISITED IN LAST 7 DAYS 3,160 TIMES. FROM AUGUST 1 TO SEP 4, 22,498 MADE 95,235 VISITS 4 VISITS EVERY 24 HOURS

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WPCNR Evening City Star Reporter. June 27, 2002. 10:30 PM E.D.T.: City Hall is reporting tonight that Mayor Joseph Delfino has personally asked the White Plains Housing Authority to back off their call for the Common Council to vote on their proposed Winbrook site for a new headquarters.
Mayor Delfino has asked the Housing Authority for more time before the Common Council formally votes on a proposal to build a new administrative office building on the grounds of the Winbrook Housing Complex. The Mayor has asked for the postponement in an effort to reexamine alternatives and options to the Housing Authority’s current proposal.

“Before this issue is voted on, I want to be comfortable that all reasonable options have been considered,” Mayor Delfino said. ” I appreciate the housing authority’s willingness to postpone this action”.

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WPCNR NewsReel. From WP Little League.June 27, 2002. The White Plains Little League reports the electronic scoreboard at the new Gedney Field was vandalized sometime over the weekend.

According to the Little League’s report, when the scorebard activated Monday evening, it would not operate. Harvey Sommer, White Plains licensed electrician was called by Little League to investigate.

Sommer identified the problem: someone had cut the main power wires to the scoreboard in the center field area. An official police report was filed.

Anyone with information on who cut the wires is asked to contact the White Plains Police Department.

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WPCNR Police Gazzette. June 25, 2002. 8:00 AM. Dr. Frank Straub, the Mayor’s nominee to become the next White Plains Commissioner of Public Safety was interview by the Common Council in Executive Session Monday afternoon.
Dr. Straub was seen leaving City Hall at about 7:10 PM, and Council President Benjamin Boykin told WPCNR that he found Dr. Straub “very impressive.” Councilman Boykin said he could not comment further about the directions of the Executive Session interview with the NYPD Assisstant Commissioner, but Dr. Straub’s appointment would be on the agenda for next Monday’s Common Council meeting.

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WPCNR City Evening Star Reporter. By John F. Bailey. June 25, 2002. 12:15 A.M. E.D.T.: The Common Council started deliberating in Executive Session with their environmental attorney, Michael Gerrard, Monday evening at 8:40 PM and at midnight were still at, wrangling over their options. As of midnight, no public vote had been called on the resolution as to whether the Council would accept the New York Presbyterian Hospital Final Environmental Impact Statement.

At 12:10 AM, Tuesday morning, George Gretsas, the Mayor’s Executive Officer, reported to WPCNR that the Common Council had accepted the Final Environmental Impact Statement as complete by a vote of 6 to 1, with Councilman William King abstaining.

FEIS BUSTERS: The usual suspects gather nervously in the Mayor’s Conference Chamber Monday evening to consider with Michael Gerrard the implications and consequences of accepting the New York Presbyterian Hospital draft Final Environmental Impact Statement.
All Photos by WPCNR

In what was billed as the final session of the “Gerrard Talks,” the council got under way with Mr. Gerrard at 7:27 PM, and adjourned to Executive Session at 8:40 PM to get into the hot and heavy issues.

Based on the concerns expressed repeatedly over the first five sessions of the “Gerrard Talks,” WPCNR speculates they were discussing specifically how they could demand more information on the FEIS, and how they could limit the scope and execution of the New York Presbyterian Hospital project, or perhaps deny it all together in their eventual Findings Statement. Obviously after three hours in seclusion with Michael Gerrard, the Council feels comfortable with their options.

Resolution Drawn Up for Public Voting.

The Common Council was required by the Department of Environmental Conservation State Environmental Quality Review regulations to accept as complete or deny as incomplete the Final Environmental Impact Statement by Thursday, June 27. Consequently a 4-page resolution had been drawn up for Council action at the conclusion of the Executive Session for the Council to vote on which they approved at slightly past midnight.

The Resolution concludes, “the Common Council finds that the Final Environmental Impact Statement is adequate and accurate and responds to comments received regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Statement,”

The Resolution continues, acknowledging that the Council “accepts the FEIS for consideration in making environmental findings.”

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WPCNR NOON NEWS. Special from the Mayor’s Office. June 24, 2002. 11:45 A.M. E.D.T.: The Mayor’s Office is organizing a Common Council tour of the Entergy Nuclear Station at Indian Point, WPCNR has learned. Actual date of the visit has not been determined, however the trip is a “do.” Arrangements for media to accompany the Common Council at the fact-finding trip will be available.

The trip to the Indian Point facility is a serious Council effort to make an informed decision on whether or not to consider a resolution calling for the decommissioning of the plant.