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Paul Feiner Raises Issue of the “Unaffordable Cost” of Assisted Living Facilities. Wants 10% of new Assisted Living Units to be Required to Be Made Affordable in Greenburgh. Calls for Responses from persons on What They Pay for Assisted Living Care

Posted on December 9, 2018 by John Bailey

WPCNR THE FEINER REPORT. Special to WPCNR from Paul Feiner, Town of Greenburgh Supervisor. December 9, 2018:

Your help is wanted. I am planning to introduce legislation that would require 10% of all new beds in future assisted living facilities that have not yet been approved by the town to be affordable. A few months ago I was speaking to a woman who told me that during the last months of her mom’s life she was paying up to $22,000 a month for all services at an assisted living facility. Is that the norm or unusual? I’d like to know.

There are many luxury assisted living facilities in the area but am not aware of moderately priced facilities. Most Greenburgh residents cannot afford the assisted living facilities located in our area.

If any family member lives at an assisted living facility -how much do you pay each month? What is the base fee? What about extras? How much does it quickly add up to each month? Please identify the facilities and the locations (municipality, county, state).

Assisted living facilities pay significant taxes to local governments –they are for profit businesses. They have a right as a business to market their facilities to people who can pay for the services they offer. The school districts receive a few hundred thousand dollars a year in taxes from these facilities and it costs them nothing–no additional children. And, assisted living facilities usually generate little traffic.

I will compile the responses I receive and share them with the community and Town Board in advance of the January 9th public hearing.

I will also share your comments with other municipal, county, state and federal officials from around the county –hoping to encourage all officials to address this problem. We have a growing aging population and most people cannot afford the assisted living facilities that are being built around the county. Your thoughts welcome. I also welcome any other suggestions —what can we do to encourage the development of less expensive assisted living?

CL 2 – 12/12/18
Resolution scheduling a Public Hearing for 7:30 PM, Wednesday, January 9, 2019, to consider a Local Law amending Chapter 285-10A(4)(f) of the Code of the Town of Greenburgh, entitled “Assisted Living Facilities,” to require that all new Assisted Living Facilities developed in the Town provide a minimum of 10% of living units for persons whose annual incomes meet Westchester County’s Affordable Housing Guidelines and comply with Westchester County’s Model Fair Housing Ordinance

TONIGHT WHITE PLAINS WEEK ARCHIVE INTERVIEW WITH MAYOR ALFRED DEL VECCHIO. 7:30 PM EST ON CH. 45 FIOS, CH 76 ALTICE AND THE INTERNET

Posted on December 7, 2018 by John Bailey

For 12-7 has been posted the youtube link is

https://youtu.be/5M_yCnq3m8s

the whiteplainsweek.com link is

http://www.whiteplainsweek.com/

JIM BENEROFE AND PETER KATZ

REMEMBER

MAYOR ALFRED DEL VECCHIO

with WHITE PLAINS WEEK ARCHIVE INTERVIEW

WITH MAYOR DEL VECCHIO CONDUCTED JULY 20, 2001

PLUS

U.S. NAVY VIDEO REPORT ON

PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH’S

183 WORLD WAR II MISSIONS

THE COUNTY’S GROWING AT RISK POPULATION

NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AID INCREASED

THE SLOWING OF THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY ECONOMY

THE PLANET VENUS GLEAMS IN THE PRE-DAWN SKIES

TONIGHT AT 7:30 on WHITE PLAINS TV CH. 45 FIOS CH. 76 ALTICE

AND

www.wpcommunitymedia.org

www.whiteplainsweek.com

and YOUTUBE.

77 YEARS AGO TODAY AT NOON EST. JAPAN ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR

Posted on December 7, 2018 by John Bailey

Out of the Sun

A Memorial

Out of the sun on quiet Sunday morning they came

Birds of death blazened with red suns raining fiery havoc on Battleship Row.

One by one, ruthless planes dove, destroyed wantonly to their nation’s eternal shame.

Thunderous explosions scattered fiery death in Sunday dawn’s glow.

Flames belched from bowels of stricken Arizona, America’s pride,

On Hickam Field pilots raced to planes to defend

As their birds were crippled on ground by Zeros’ glide

Gunners in turrets on ships floundering filled skies with flack’s din.

In search of aircraft carriers, marauders could not find

Ruthlessly strafed and bombed leaving Pearl

Smoking ruin. Ships sunk, burning as raiders flew back into the Sun

The day of infamy had been ignited in the Zeros’ swirl.

America listened a world away, somber FDR

Spoke of this day that will live in infamy.

America must never forget that Pearl Harbor Scar

When an unsuspecting America slept in complacency.

To the 2,403 perishing that day under merciless bombs

Hails of bullets,terror of torpedos out of nowhere

America must remember forces against our freedoms

Relentlessly work always to remain aware of surprise of deadly bombs’ glare.

Vigilence is the price of freedom always to be defended

Against those who would destroy our republic from within

By dark forces in far off places we have offended.

The answer is not curtailing freedom at home rather it to champion.

The USS Arizona lies today in Pearl’s waters, bleeding lives

Of her men through the eerie eternal slick marking the rusting hulk.

Beneath Pearl’s waters, the blood of free people oozes from the shadowy bulk,

Bleeding forever, freedom’s spirit living eternally in lost lives remembered.

The Arizona never rests.

Note: The Pearl Harbor attack took place 77 years ago today at 7 A.M. Honolulu time –just about 12 noon Eastern Standard Time. Its aftermath is dramatically depicted at

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm

County Will Build Mount Vernon Field. Will Be Bid Out in August

Posted on December 7, 2018 by John Bailey

WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER. From the Westchester County Department of Communications. December 7, 2018:

County Executive George Latimer said: “For over 10 years, the prospective repair and re-opening of Memorial Field in Mount Vernon has laid fallow for a number of different reasons. While I have only been on this job for almost 12 months, I know Memorial Field well – it was where I had my High School graduation. Earlier this year, we held a meeting with City officials, after which we made the decision to make the offer through an inter-municipal agreement that the County will take the lead on the completion of this project – and solely for its completion – not its management. The Mount Vernon City Council approved the agreement, on Monday night the County Board of Legislators approved the amended agreement and I am signing it here today.”

Now that the amended IMA has been signed, the County has hired the design firm Woodard & Curran, the same firm who had completed the design plans roughly 10 years ago, to revisit the original design of Memorial Field. The first step will be to have a surveyor go and survey the property since so much time has passed since it was originally done – this is slated to happen December 17. Once the survey is done, Woodard & Curran can work on the preliminary design and then finalize the design. While the design will not start from scratch, the amended IMA requires we use the original plans. Final design is expected by the end of the summer – at which point the project will go out to bid.

ther, while this is happening, on a parallel path, the City of Mount Vernon needs to have a site remediation plan approved by the State Department of Environmental Conservation (“DEC”) to remove the construction debris that was dumped there. The City’s approved plan will outline the work that needs to be done for construction to happen. This issue is solely Mount Vernon’s responsibility.

Now that these plans are in place and signed, without any unforeseen issues – construction will begin in 2019 and Mount Vernon residents will soon have a new – and still historic – Memorial Field to enjoy for generations to come.

Latimer concluded: “We want to show people that reasonable people can work together, that we can work together across party lines, that we can work together across different levels of government in order to actually get things done and solve a problem.”