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JOULE ASSETS INVITES SUSTAINABLE WESTCHESTER COMMUNITIES TO JOIN 21ST CENTURY INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM GUARANTEEING RENEWABLE ENERGY SAVINGS OVER 20 YEARS. 3 BILLION KILOWATTS FOR A MILLION HOMES RESERVED. NATIONAL ROLL OUT ENVISIONED

Posted on August 2, 2017 by John Bailey

Mike Gordon, speaking on the White Plains Television program PEOPLE TO BE HEARD, describing his 2lst Century Infrastructure program being offered to local communities and ultimately across the state.

WPCNR THE POWER NEWS. By John F. Bailey. August 3, 2017:

Mike Gordon, CEO of Joule Assets, has announced his company will offer the Westchester communities enrolled presently in Sustainable Westchester, a new deal on Clean Energy supply guaranteeing clean energy savings for 20 years. Speaking on White Plains Television in this week’s People to Be Heard, he announced:

“I have stepped away from engagement with Sustainable Westchester and Joule Assets has pulled together 3 billion kilowatt hours of energy supply around New York State. We are inviting communities in Westchester to join that bid because it is a very powerful bid and it’s going to be in Q4 and Q1 of 2017-18. Communities can get a plethora of really cool things if they join that bid.

If the municipalities join with this bid, what they would do is a 100% of their residents who are currently buying with the utility or current community choice aggregator would then move to the winning supplier or suppliers. They would be buying on behalf of their residents and businesses.”

Asked if he was competing with Sustainable Westchester, Gordon said:

“We are inviting municipalities to contract with us to engage with us. I am wide open to engaging sustainable Westchester as a partner in that endeavor and having them join us to provide services for it. Because I think the sustainability focus is very powerful. They are free to join or not. In this case, their core capability is to organize in the grass roots. I think that’s a very powerful capability. I’d welcome them to participate. But we’re moving ahead independently.”

Gordon is the key figure in forming Sustainable Westchester two years ago and persuading 24 Westchester cities (including White Plains) to participate in the program. He was previously Co Chair of Sustainable Westchester, as well as being CEO of his company, Joule Assets, described itself on its website www.jouleassets.com :

“Joule Assets actively empowers businesses, investors, communities, and individuals to capitalize on reductions of energy consumption through innovative financing, creative business models, and regulatory policy in the U.S. and Europe.”

Gordon describes the program this way:

Residents do not have to have a solar installation to participate, if their municipality accepts the Joule Assets bid. Gordon said that if they did, the solar installation would save them even more.

“We’re not going to be yet able to supply 100% of a home’s power with solar so if they (home owners) do (install a solar panel), they could get to 100% solar and save money on all of it so, the answer is yes.”

He said that the renewable energy suppliers Joule has lined up to form the bid would supply solar power, wind power and hydro power sources.

WPCNR asked of the 3 billion kilowatts would be exclusively clean energy. Gordon issued this statement:

“We’re doing a TOTAL buy of an estimated 3 billion kilowatt hours and perhaps a 100 million of those Kwhs will be local solar—the rest will be traditional supply mix that we are apt to green by buying renewable credits from more remote renewable power plants. All of it, including the couple hundred million solar kwhs, will be shot through to customers through the existing power grid.”

WPCNR asked who would supply White Plains customers enrolled in the Sustainable Westchester/Westchester Power renewable energy rate supplied by Constellation, if the Joule Assets Rate is accepted.

He gave this statement:

“For the 2.8 Billion kilowatts we need to buy, Constellation and bunches of other suppliers are invited to bid to supply us. Just as with Sustainable Westchester’s first bid (and next presumably.”

Gordon said Joule Assets is offering the municipalities and Westchester across the state a 20 year contract, with $2,000,000 in savings over the first five years of the contract.

Gordon’s company of 35 energy experts is planning to offer the Joule program to communities across New York State, and his company is working on offering agreements to other states across the country. He said Sustainable Westchester experience in creating the Westchester collection of aggregate community buys resulting in the fixed green energy rate for 24 communities, would be an asset and aid in signing more communities upstate, if Sustainable chose to work with Joule Assets.

Gordon describes the program on White Plains TV’s People to Be Heard (which you can see at 8 PM Thursday, Fios Channel 45 and Altice Cablevision Channel 76). Mr. Gordon was on the program to describe what the state of renewable energy is, going into the second year of the Sustainable Energy program.

Judge Denies Lecuona Campaign Motion to Dismiss Democrats’ Suit to Deny Her and Her Party’s Petitions. Democratic Party Alleges All Petitions of Lecuona and Slate Should be Invalidated Due to a Cover Sheet Error.

Posted on August 1, 2017 by John Bailey

WPCNR WHITE PLAINS LAW JOURNAL. By John F. Bailey. August 1, 2017:

Judge Lawrence H. Ecker in New York Supreme Court in White Plainsdenied a motion made by Guy Parisi,attorney for Milagros Lecouna to dismiss a show cause order asking the court to rule all Ms. Lecuona’s petition signatures and those of her Common Council running mates, Michael Kraver, Alan Goldman and Saad Siddiqui as invalid.

The suit was filed July 25 in Supreme Court seeking to contest Mayor Thomas Roach, John Martin, John Kirkpatrick and Justin Brasch, nominees of the Democratic City Committee.

Judge Ecker, after reviewing the presentation of the four volumes of signatures, copies of which were provided by the Board of Elections, dismissed the Lecuona motion for outright dismissal of the 4 Democrat candidates’ suit, and set Tuesday, August 8, for a continuation of the proceedings. He will meet with Mr. Abinanti tomorrow to receive Abinanti’s list of Lecuona petition witnesses, whom his subpoena servers had not been able to serve.

Abananti wishes to question Lecuona’s petition witnesses as to how they collected the signatures. Mr. Abinanti said the Lecuona had paid persons to collect a portion of the signatures. A spokesman for Lecuona campaign, Christine Senteno, said the Lecuona slate had paid 3 professional canvassers out of 8 canvassers they used, and denied Abinanti’s statement that the Lecuona group had paid $10,000 to professional canvassers (to amass the signatures).

Thomas Abinanti, (a New York State Assemblyman, representing Greenburgh), attorney for the Roach team, said in his arguments, began by saying his clients contend they have found irregularities (wrong city, wrong county, wrong address, one-third do not live in White Plains, not members of Democratic Party, among others) invalidating some of the signatures. He did not give a number. Mr. Parisi contended that Mr. Abinanti should show the examples. Abinanti said he did not have to at this time.

The validity of signatures acquired and contained in the four volumes of Lecuona petitions are now being checked by the Board of Elections. County Board of Elections Co Chair, Reginald Lafayette informed WPCNR prior to the beginning of the proceeding, this would be the procedure. He told WPCNR the signature check would be done by Monday.

Abinanti than moved on to his main argument: All the petitions submitted by the Lecuona slate should be invalidated because the description on the “Cover Sheet” misidentified the four volumes.

Judge Ecker said he would be willing to look at the four volumes with the attorneys, and court was recessed at 10:30. When copies of the volumes arrived, court reconvened at 11 A.M.

During the session, the Judge, Mr. Abinanti, Mr. Parisi and the attorney for the county, and a representative of the Roach campaign examined Mr. Abinanti’s showing of the discrepancies between the cover sheets of volumes 1, 3,4 submitted July 11,and Volume 2, submitted July 13.

Abinanti noted that the cover sheet submitted with all four volumes on July 13, misidentified Volume 2, and also contended that since Volume 2 was for different candidates, it could not be submitted as part of the group.

During the summation of arguments, Judge Ecker brought up the question of whether the signature submissions were the same in the four volumes with the final cover sheet, as they were first submitted.

The attorney for the Board of Elections said they were. Mr. Abinanti said they were too, though his allegations of signature irregularities were a separate issue.

His main argument that all Lecuona signatures should be in validated was that all four volumes of Lecouna and her Common Council challengers’ signatures should be invalidated in entirety because they were submitted twice, the second time with a cover sheet that identified three volumes differently on the cover sheet than when they were identified when they were first submitted.

His argument was that changing a cover sheet was not permitted by State Board of Elections law. He also said that it could make extra work for any party wishing to challenge the second set because potential “challengers” in the future would have to cross check with previously submitted petitions if they had already begun to analyze the first submissions.

Guy Parisi attorney for the Lecuona contingent said that election law allows a correction can be made within three days and the candidates submitting have three days to do so. He countered several cases cited by Mr. Abinanti as being invalidated by subsequent decisions.

Mr. Parisi contended that Mr. Abinanti neglected to mention that the State Election Law Abinanti cited (as the basis for denying the Lecuona petitions) had the caveat that common sense should be used ruling on whether a discrepancy can be corrected or a change be made or error corrected, rather than applying the restriction Abinanti alleges as automatically invalidating the Lecuona collections.

Court will reconvene Tuesday, August 8 at 10:30 A.M, when signatures are expected to be counted, and Judge Eckert presumably will rule on the demand for invalidating all four petitions.

The Democratic Primary is September 12.

West Nile Infected Mosquitos Confirmed in Mount Vernon by County Department of Health.

Posted on August 1, 2017 by John Bailey

WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER. From Westchester County Department of Health.August 1, 2017:

This season’s first batch of mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus in Westchester has been confirmed by the Westchester County Department of Health. The area surrounding the positive mosquito batch in Mount Vernon has been inspected by the Health Department, which has treated nearby catch basins that to protect against further mosquito breeding nearby.

“West Nile Virus has been present in the Hudson Valley for many years, so this season’s first positive should remind residents to protect themselves and their families by removing standing water around their homes every week and by using repellents daily when spending significant time outdoors,” said Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino. “As a county, our proactive and comprehensive strategy to combat mosquito-borne illnesses has proven effective, and includes advice and resources for our residents.”

As of July 20^th, when the first positive batch was confirmed in Westchester, 163 batches of mosquitoes from Westchester were tested for West Nile Virus by the New York State Department of Health. The state Health Department has identified 99 positive mosquito pools throughout New York so far this year.

Symptoms of West Nile encephalitis (a severe infection) usually occur from three to 14 days following the bite and include high fever, headache, confusion, muscle aches and weakness, seizures, or paralysis. Most people who are infected with West Nile Virus will not show any symptoms. People over age 50 are at the highest risk for a severe disease.

West Nile Virus is not to be confused with Zika. To date, no mosquitoes in New York State have tested positive for Zika and there have been no locally-acquired cases.

“We will continue to monitor mosquito activity,” said Westchester County Health Commissioner Sherlita Amler, MD, “and we recommend that residents take personal protection measures and remain vigilant in removing standing water on their property where mosquitoes can breed.”

Dr. Amler said that favorite mosquito breeding sites include buckets, plant pot saucers, clogged gutters, pet bowls, old tires, as well as children’s pools and toys. Residents should also minimize spending time outdoors at dawn and dusk, and apply insect repellents according to the label directions when enjoying activities outside.

In addition to larviciding, the county also gave away free fathead minnows and mosquito dunks to residents this spring. The minnows help to curtail the mosquito population in ponds and water by feeding on mosquito larvae and pupae before they develop into adult mosquitoes. The mosquito dunks serve the same purpose in birdbaths, rain barrels and unused pools. Free mosquito dunks are still available, and residents can make arrangements to pick them up by calling (914) 813-5000.

Residents who notice large areas of standing water on public property that could serve as potential mosquito breeding grounds should report it to the Westchester County Department of Health by calling (914) 813-5000 or emailing hweb@westchestergov.com. For more information about preventing West Nile Virus, visit health.westchestergov.com/west-nile-virus.

Councilwoman Milagros Lecuona Appears in Court Today to Defend the Validity of her Primary Petition Signatures

Posted on August 1, 2017 by John Bailey

WPCNR CAMPAIGN 2017. From the Lecuona Campaign. August 1, 2017:

Common Council Member and Democratic candidate for White Plains mayor Milagros Lecuona is headed to court today to defend the signatures of those who petitioned to get her on the ballot for the Democratic primary on September 12th as her opponent seeks to suppress their voice.

Lecuona’s campaign team collected triple the necessary 912 signatures needed to get on the ballot for the September 12 Democratic Primary. Some 2,700 signatures, despite Roach’s obnoxious robocall begging voters not to sign Lecunoa’s petitions. Watch the video here.

“Instead of doing his job managing the city of White Plains, (Tom) Roach is focusing on trying to suppress the voices of thousands of voters. He could have accepted the legitimacy of our campaign, but he and his lawyers are disenfranchising citizens, many who are from communities of color, for petty reasons such as a voter noting “WP” as their city instead of “White Plains,” despite the fact the unique identifier of their ZIP code clearly identifies the voter’s intent,” explained Lecuona.

“I launched this campaign to bring voice to those in this city that haven’t had their voices heard by the current administration. An administration under my leadership will seek to include and respect our residents instead of shut them down,” Lecuona continued.

Lecuona is a Democrat, a Common Council member for the last nine years, a Democratic District Leader and an active member of the Hispanic Democrats of Westchester. She is running on a slate with Alan Goldman, Michael Kraver and Saad Siddiqui whose petitions have also been challenged.

Beyond the thousands of supporters that have shown their trust and support in Lecuona she has been endorsed by the Hispanic Democrats of Westchester, the Northeastern New York Carpenters Union, the Professional Fire Fighters of White Plains, the Westchester and Putnam Labor Council, the White Plains Retired Uniformed Fire Fighters Association and several White Plains community leaders.

IS THIS WHITE PLAINS OR MAYOR DALEY’S CHICAGO?

Posted on July 30, 2017 by John Bailey

WPCNR THE LETTER TICKER. JULY 30, 2017:

To the Editor:

Is this White Plains or Dick Daley’s Chicago?

I learned decades ago that two things in particular characterize a political machine:

1) Using absurd technicalities to try to keep opponents, especially reformers, off the ballot; and

2) filling public positions, especially judgeships, with machine cronies. Alas, much to my sadness, we now have both of these in White Plains.

What is equally depressing is that Mayor Roach, whom I believed was going to be a different type of politician, and whom I supported for every public office he sought, has adopted a type of politics that I would have thought beneath him.

We have seen it before: When someone is in politics long enough, they do what they think they must to hold onto the job. Ideals come in a distant second to political survival, no matter what the cost to good government and clean politics.

Mark Elliott

COUNCILWOMAN MILAGROS LECUONA DISTRIBUTES VIDEO DEMONSTRATING DEMOCRATIC CITY COMMITTEE OBJECTIONS TO HER AND RUNNING MATES’ PETITION SIGNATURES. EXPOSES DEMOCRATIC CITY COMMITTEE GROUNDS FOR REJECTION

Posted on July 30, 2017 by John Bailey

WPCNR LETTER TICKER. JULY 30, 2017 (Editor’s Note: the following email was sent to voters containing a video prepared by Candidate for Mayor Milagros Lecuona:Ms. Lecuona’s petitions to run in the September 12 Democratic Primary are being challenged in court Tuesday morning as to their validity by the City Democratic Committee.)

Dear friends!

Please watch and SHARE this important 4-minute video about the current White Plains mayor’s attempt to deny the 2700 signatures collected for Milagros Lecuona for Mayor and the 2000 signatures for Michael Kraver, Saad Siddiqui, and Alan Goldman to get them all on the Sept 12 Democratic primary ballot.

(Editor’s Note: the Lecuona video may be seen by copying and pasting this link in your browser or clicking on the following link.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy0pYdhOzpY

The incumbent mayor is acting completely undemocratically, trying to prevent anyone but his slate being on the Democratic primary ballot for Mayor and Common Council this Sept. 12.

He is trying trying to disqualify signatures expressing the clear desire of thousands of people to have a real choice in the Democratic primary election.

Please ask all your friends to continue to share this video, and to ask their friends to share it as well. We don’t have a newspaper that covers us regularly, so we need to rely on all our supporters to spread information.

Hope you’re each having a good summer!

Anne Bobroff-Hajal

SNAP! SNAP! WHITE PLAINS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER STAGE 2 WEST SIDE STORY CLASSIC IS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE STREETS. LEAD ACTORS OF FUTURE BUILD STRONG FINISH OF HOPE WITH WEST SIDE STORY TIMELESS CLASSICS.

Posted on July 29, 2017 by John Bailey

Lauren Langbaum as Maria and James Mernin as Tony sing One Hand, One Heart

WPCNR STAGE DOOR. Theatrical Review by John F. Bailey. July 29, 2017:

When Northwestern student Carson Stewart as Riff, swaggering, cool teen with attitude leader of the upper West Side street gang, The Jets, strolled on stage at White Plains Performing Arts Center last night, snapping his fingers, the start of the jazz/ dance prologue to the opening of the Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim Broadway game changer West Side Story, the capacity opening night audience was taken back 60 years ago with earnest acting, excellent timing, energetic choreography and evocative emotional heights acted by young people portraying young people. How unique!

Setting the time machine on the dynamal veeberfetzer and letting the time slide roll as Deejay Bob Lewis used to say on WINS 1010, 1958 was a time in NYC when teen gangs of youth without much futures due to their poverty fought each other over street territory in Brooklyn, Queens ,the East Side and the West Side. It was an era of chains, zip guns and switch-blades. They rumbled, committed petty crimes, were hassled by law enforcement and considered undesirables, particularly if you were Italian, or Puerto Rican or Black and everyone who was poor. Somehow this seems all too familiar when we think on the intolerance of latinos, Muslims, immigrants, blacks, the poor today. Tolerance is better and worse.

WPPAC’s Stage 2 program staged its fifth annual production last night, and gives us five more productions of this West Side Story: Saturday night tonight, Sunday the 30^th, and Friday August 4, Saturday August 5, and Sunday August 6. Stage 2 brings very talented youths who are local and from around the country to its productions. Stage 2 “bridges the gap between WPPAC’s Conservatory youth theatre program and Mainstage professional theatre, giving college and local community performers over 18, non-union actors and talented rising high school juniors and seniors are part of their productions.

Tony meets Maria at a dance and is so smitten, he sings Maria all the way home. He even follows her home and they duet on Tonight. Their chemistry continues to charm the show. This whirlwind romance between an Italian and a Puerto Rican girl plays out against a simmering gang feud.

Riff (Carson Stewart) center plotting with The Jets.

The growling animosity between the gangs Sharks (Puerto Ricans) and The Jets (Italians) bursts into a rumble at the end of Act I leaving the leaders of both gangs dead. Riff,(Carson Stewart) captures the attitude of the typical tough guy teenager of the era, obsessed, seeing the Sharks as a threat to his neighborhood. Bernardo, Rafa Reyes is more conciliatory as the Shark leader, but reacts to the Jets’ harrassment.

The Rumble: The Sharks on the left. The Jets on the Right. Bernardo (Rafa Reyes) Leader of the Sharks confronts Riff (Carson Stewart) as the Rumble begins.

Tony former member of the Jets is attempting to break up a rumble, and in doing so is angered and avenging the stabbing of Riff by Maria’s brother, Bernardo (played with elan, menace and macho by Rafa Reyes, a graduate of AMDA New York),stabs Bernardo in retaliation.

The second act simmers and ascends in intensity and hope against hopelessness with the lovers Maria (given flight by the articulate soprano highs of Lauren Langbaum, (wait til you hear her unique “trills” on I Feel Pretty,a unique styling of this song that I feel is a creation of her own. I’ve never heard that number executed with trills on the “r’s”) and Tony (James Mernin).

Mernin and Langbaum combine for two beautiful duets Somewhere (There’s a Place for Us) and again on One Hand, One Heart. You will yearn and hope for them and that is a good thing. They make you pine for their happiness. Mernin’s tenor blends entwining with Ms. Langbaum like two smooth silks to heart smack you with their heartbreak combined with optimism.

Alexandra Imbrosci-Viera, 2012 Graduate of White Plains High School, is the dead Shark leader Bernardo’s girl friend Anita. When Tony kills Bernardo she delivers the chilling lament A Man Like That (Stay with Your Own Kind) Ms. Imbrosci-Viera’s mocking contralto reveals bitterness that Maria’s love for Tony the Italian boy, has cost Anita her love. She sings A Man Like That in the Cole Porter style of Love for Sale, making lyrics land blows to the hearts of Maria and audience alike.

Ms. Langbaum answers Ms. Imbrosci-Viera with the hopeless but universal truth about love, I Have a Love. Langbaum and Imbrosci-Viera comfort each other and sing it together in heartbreak touching the audience with this gem.

The second act delivers commentary on why Jets behave like Jets, when Max Temkin as A-Rab, a junior at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Casey Dath, junior at Putnam Valley High, and several Jets deliver Brenda Starr’s (Ms. Starr was the redhead I went with to the show) favorite West Side Story song Gee,Officer Krupke.

The self-proclaimed delinquents point out why they act like they do “but I’m good inside.” This song is blessed comic relief with a message amidst the unbearable drama of Shark Member Chino’s hunt to kill Tony, but the song says a lot about how hopelessness and how children are treated rob them of their ability to rise above and be successful. This was a mugging, amusing sequence handled with great comic timing by Temkin and Dath.

The police lieutenant Shrank played by John Cedric Larson, a resident of White Plains delivers smoldering lines at the gang members, disrespecting them as police did back then in the 1950s. His is a short but appropriately chilling piece of commentary, demonstrating and letting the audience feel how disrespect feels when it is done to you.

Alexandra Imbroscio-Viera as Anita, (third from left, center in red), and Jenna San Antonio (in black) cavort, singing America

I have to comment on Ms. Alexandra Imbroscio-Viera’s performing of America with her Latino girl friends. She plays off beautifully with the droll and deadpan Jenna San Antonio as Rosalia who misses Puerto Rico. Ms. San Antonio sings the straight lines to Anita like this “When I go back to San Juan, they will stand up and cheer.” To which Imbroscio-Viera sings. “They can’t they’re all here.” San Antonio also executes great acrobatic moves dancing in this number

Ms. Imbroscio-Vera has the most difficult acting sequence in the play. The Jets, guarding Tony, mock taunt and attack her, prompting her to betray Tony creating his doom. The attack and Ms. Imbroscio-Vera’sproud reaction to of petulance, desire to get even with the Jets) demonstrates how even a person seeking to do good like Anita can be turned away from her better nature by desire for vengeance. Her shocking betrayal drives Tony into searching for Chino who is out to get him.

The finale of WSS is uplifting and features a shocking moment as well as Tony’s death. Ms. Langbaum’s Maria grows as a character when confronted with Tony’s fate, seeming to walk taller, stand straighter, become stronger as both gangs carry Tony away.

Walking with quiet dignity, refusing to take revenge. Langbaum acts through body language.

The brilliantly staged lingering procession Director Joseph Walsh has crafted to send theatre goers out into the night gives a message we can all use today: disdaining revenge, forgiving, and refusing to blame others not like us for our plight must be fought. The procession is very moving. It portrays the end of a life and the emptiness of that end with tenderness, regret, and catharsis.

The use of the set that transforms a street lot into a balcony, a bedroom, a dress shop, a corner soda fountain with deftly fluent and efficient speed was designed by Scott Aronow.

The orchestra really played Mr. Bernstein’s syncopated score jazz/dance score elegantly. Lauren Jenkins violin poignantly lifting the ballads, reed players Josh Plotner, David Asand Matt Huntington so much in sync and character with their actors and actresses. Solid work by Conductor Jacob Carll. I noticed no override! Excelsior!

West Side Story plays two more days this weekend and three days next week. The box office may be reached at 914-328-1600 or the website, wppac.com.

Joseph Walsh, the director talks about his production on this week’s White Plains Television People to Be Heard Saturday night at 7 on Altice Cablevision channel 76 and countywide on Verizon Fios Channel 45. You may also see the interview anytime on Youtube at

https://youtu.be/v2IA1SKy_Gw

PRIMARY UPDATE: LECUONA AND COMPANY GOING TO COURT ON THEIR PETITION CHALLENGE AUGUST 1

Posted on July 28, 2017 by John Bailey

WPCNR CAMPAIGN 2017. BULLETIN. JULY 28, 2017:

Councilwoman Milagros Lecuona, Republican candidate for Mayor, and now contending a Democratic Party to her petitions and those of her running mates challenging incumbent Mayor Tom Roach and the Democratic selected slate in the September 12 Democratic Primary is going to court on Tuesday, the first of August on the challenge by the City Democratic Committee confronting her on the validity of her petitions.

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Posted on July 28, 2017 by John Bailey

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Three Companies Answering County Request for Proposals to Run Westchester County Airport to be Revealed Monday. Miffed Statement Makes Case for Privatizing the Airport

Posted on July 28, 2017 by John Bailey

Airport for Lease

WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER. From the Westchester County Department of Communications. July 28, 2017:

As of today’s 4 p.m. deadline, three (3) proposals were submitted in response to the Request For Proposals (RFP) to enter into a public-private partnership with Westchester County to manage and operate Westchester County Airport under a long-term lease.

The identities of qualified bidders will be announced next week after a review by Frasca & Associates, the consultant hired by the county to oversee the RFP process, to determine whether the submitted proposals meet the requirements established by the county.

Under the RFP, Westchester County Airport will continue to operate within its existing footprint. The current number of runways, gates and passenger cap remain the same.

The reason for the RFP is so Westchester County can take advantage of a Federal Aviation Administration program that would allow millions of dollars of profits generated at Westchester County Airport to be used for the benefit of all residents and businesses. Under current contract structure, money made at the airport must stay at the airport. The FAA program unlocks those revenues so they can be used to help pay for police, parks, roads, day care and other county services.

It is also important to note that there is nothing new about a private company operating the airport on behalf of Westchester County. The Westchester County Airport has been run by a private company since the end of World War II. The difference is that the FAA program allows the county to negotiate more favorable terms for residents and the flying public.