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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.

“NO EXPANSION OF AIRPORT PLANNED” CONSULTANT SAYS. 200 DON’T BELIEVE HIM. THEY TURN OUT TO BLAST COUNTY AIRPORT “FINAL MASTER PLAN” “A FRAUD,” ACCUSE COUNTY OF TRYING TO SLIP MAJOR EXPANSION AND PRIVATIZATION BY THEM WITH NO PUBLIC INPUT.

Posted on July 27, 2017 by John Bailey

A TOUGH, SNARLING CROWD AT “THE LITTLE THEATER” AT THE COUNTY CENTER THURSDAY NIGHT AWAITED THE START OF THE HEARING ON THE MASTER PLAN FOR THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY AIRPORT. THEY DID NOT LIKE IT.

WPCNR COUNTY CLARION LEDGER. By John F. Bailey. July 27, 2017:

“Fraud!” they shouted more than once.

“Disingenuous!”

“LaGuardia North!”

“A threat to health, our drinking water, and children”

Angry words came from speaker after speaker in commenting on the Final Westchester County Master Plan five years in the preparation that was summarized for the first half hour of the hearing.

The summarization was cut short after one audience member said, “Do we have to listen to this?” and got into an unauthorized discussion with the Westchester County Transportation Commissioner Vincent Kopicki (back to camera in above photo.The Commissioner calmed down the situation and the representative presenting the details hopscotched his copy and quickly summed it up. Then the fireworks began.

The Plan was introduced by the President of the firm preparing the plan, and he said the Plan does not call for any expansion of flights or expansion of the airport. The plan was summarized in this chart:

Speaker after speaker alleged the preparers used erroneous air traffic numbers, and obfuscated what the plan could allow for expansion of activity, while saying they are not expanding the curfew or amount of the air traffic.

Speaker after speaker pointed that shrinking runway 29/11 width, expanding taxiways, adding two parking garages and new commercial hangars for corporate aircraft would create massive expansion of activity within the confines of the present airport footprint which many speakers said would despite what the plan says,greatly increase pollution and air traffic.

Within an hour of mocking, disdainful comments not one speaker supported the plan. A recurring complaint was the county never asked the community for their views on the future of the airport while the consultant prepared it. It is now up to the County legislators to approve or reject the plan, or require revisions. 29/11

The plan was prepared as a formality County Executive Robert P. Astorino said, according to one speaker, as required by the FAA, that would just lie on a shelf.

“A BUNCH OF BOXES”–DOWNTOWNER QUESTIONS DESIGN OF “THE COLLECTION” AT WHITE PLAINS WESTCHESTER AVENUE GATEWAY

Posted on July 27, 2017 by John Bailey

WPCNR LETTER TICKER. July 27, 2017:

The artist’s rendering of a future mixed-use development “The Collection,” (editor: Shown above) which requires zoning changes, looks like a bunch of boxes crammed into the Westchester Avenue, White Plains site.

If this is the way it looks from Westchester Avenue, how will the development function and look from Franklin Avenue, an already crowded 2-lane street beginning on a low-visibility hill at Westchester Avenue and ending on a curve only 1 block away at Amherst Place—where Eastview School property begins?

Where is The Collection’s open green space accessible from both Franklin and Westchester Avenues?

Where is the location of the 2 promised, safe pedestrian walkways, for walkers from Franklin Avenue through to Westchester Avenue, and vice versa?

How many active driveways will pedestrians have to cross? This is an area where people walk to work, to shopping, and to mass transit.

How will vehicles, large and small, access the various project entrances?

Some large flatbed delivery trucks cannot turn into the corner of Main St. and City Place, to access the relatively new City Center. How will this be handled at The Collection?

And, where will the snow storage, garbage storage, sitting areas, and dog walks be? Where will the moving vans be accommodated?

To voice your concern, please attend the public hearing about The Collection on Monday August 7 in the White Plains Common Council chambers. Call the City Clerk in advance at 914 422-1227 to verify the time.

Renee Marks-Cohen

State also Sues Validity of Lecuona’s Signatures. Effort to Deny Lecuona position on Democrat Primary Line Intensifies Apparently

Posted on July 27, 2017 by John Bailey

WPCNR CAMPAIGN 2017. By John F. Bailey. July 27, 2017:

Councilwoman Milagros Lecuona Challenger of White Plains Mayor Thomas Roach for the Democratic nomination for Mayor told WPCNR that in addition to the Democratic City Committee challenge of the validity of her 2,700 signatures she acquired to qualifty for the September 12 Democratic Primary to wrest the Democratic Party Nomination from incumbent and nominee Mayor Thomas Roach, her battle just got more complicated.

Westchester County Board of Elections Commissioners Democrat Reginald Lafayette and Republican Doug Colety have been sued by the state also challenging the Lecuona effort. Details of the suit are being sought.

Lecuona described the new suit as an additional effort to keep her off the September 12 primary ballot.

She said the dispute over her petions is a long way from being resolved with this additional suit being enjoined.