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SL GREEN readies Qualifications. Unsure It Will Submit. Seek Hub Presence

Posted on September 25, 2007 by John Bailey

WPCNR The Developer News By John F. Bailey. September 25, 2007 UPDATED 9:30 P.M.: Rick Matthews, a spokesperson for Reckson/SL Green confirmed today that the company was “preparing for a possible submission under the White Plains RFQ (Request For Qualifications), but they are not prepared to say they are going ahead and submit.”

This week, Matthews also confirmed what John McCarthy, of McCarthy & Associates in White Plains had confirmed to WPCNR last week that SLGreen had placed some key Westchester holdings on the commercial market.

Matthews said SL Green was offering for sale 100, 120 and 520 White Plains Road in Tarrytown, there major office complexes. He said they were shopping The Summit (100, 200, and 500 Summit Lake Drive) in Valhalla, and the Mount Pleasant Corporate Center, 115 and 117 Stevens Avenue.

Asked the significance of putting these properties on the market, Matthews said, ”This is further refinement of the portfolio following the Acquisition of Reckson earlier this year….these properties don’t fit the market as much as the other properties in the portfolio in terms of SL GREEN wanting to be in the more urban parts of the county where there are transit hubs like White Plains.”

Four members of the Common Council in an “opinion” expressed September 7 in the press said they were unwilling to entertain any provisions of the RFQ as it was sent out to potential developers approximately August 23.

No connection, but 115 Stevens Avenue is the headquarters of Cappelli Enterprises. Cappelli Enterprises is scheduled to move into the second tower at the Ritz Carlton Westchester when it is completed in August 2008.

Open Government Clears Boykin, Malmud Roach and Power of Violating Open Meetings

Posted on September 24, 2007 by John Bailey

WPCNR WHITE PLAINS LAW JOURNAL. By John F. Bailey. September 24, 2007 UPDATED 5:05 PM EDT: Camille Jobin-Davis, Assistant Director of the New York State Committee on Open Government, told the CitizeNetReporter today that the White Plains Common Council members, Benjamin Boykin, Rita Malmud, Dennis Power and Thomas Roach did not violate the Open Meetings Law Section 108 when they formulated an opinion on the Request for Qualifications, and published it in the White Plains Times September 7, 2007.

“These 4 councilmembers are opposed to this RFQ. They got together in their political caucus, in what they’re calling a political caucus, ” Ms. Jobin-Davis said today, “and drafted this document setting forth their opinions in opposition to whatever happened here. I don’t see they are making policy here. I’m still of the opinion that the Open Meetings law wouldn’t, that there isn’t a problem here with respect to the open meetings law because of that caucus exemption to the law.”

City Hall had complained that the Council was making policy in secret when they published the “opinion” without telling the Mayor’s Office, or two other Democratic Council persons.

“There’s no problem with respect to the open meetings law, ” Camille-St. John said, “I’m saying that this meeting where this letter (the RFQ Opposition Letter published by the four Councilpersons), was discussed and signed and decided upon, because this meeting has been characterized as a political caucus because they’re all members of the same party, because the action of them meeting together to agree on this letter would be again, exempt from the open meetings law as far as I can tell.”

WPCNR asked would the fact the 4 would be a majority make a difference?

“I don’t believe it does because they are meetings pursuant to the exemption of the Open Meetings law, the Open Meetings Law would not apply at all, because the exemption is broad, ” Ms. Jobin-Davis said.

She said the exemption was created after the original law was passed in 1985.

For the record, this is the exemption, supplied to WPCNR, by Ms. Jobin-Davis:

§108. Exemptions. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed as extending the provisions hereof to:

1. judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings, except proceedings of the public service commission and zoning boards of appeals;

2. a. deliberations of political committees, conferences and caucuses. b. for purposes of this section, the deliberations of political committees, conferences and caucuses means a private meeting of members of the senate or assembly of the state of New York, or of the legislative body of a county, city, town or village, who are members or adherents of the same political party, without regard to (i) the subject matter under discussion, including discussions of public business, (ii) the majority or minority status of such political committees, conferences and caucuses or (iii) whether such political committees, conferences and caucuses invite staff or guests to participate in their deliberations;

and 3. any matter made confidential by federal or state law.

Photographs of the Day

Posted on September 24, 2007 by John Bailey

WPCNR PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DAY. By the WPCNR Roving Photographer. September 24, 2007: They stand like a jury of 3,798 persons, (about 700 more deaths than were caused by the World Trade Center attack they were sent to avenge). The little flags are maudlin lilies of the field today. Little white flags planted with the name of a U.S. Soldier killed in the Iraq War. Each was once an identity and loved, now each is a memory. The flags, arranged by the year the men and women were killed in action were planted as part of an anti-Iraq war demonstration at the Memorial United Methodist Church Sunday. This is the photograph of the day, more eloquent in its pathos than any vocal statement. The numbers maimed and wounded are in the tens of thousands. Too bad there are not flags for the wounded and maimed — victims forever.

Black Fathers Back to School Night.

Posted on September 24, 2007 by John Bailey

WPCNR CITY HALL CIRCUIT. From Melissa Lopez, The Mayor’s Office. September 24, 2007: Mayor Joseph M. Delfino is pleased to announce that the White Plains Youth Bureau is sponsoring a Black Father /Black Men Back to School Night Program at the Highlands Middle School, 128 Grandview Avenue in White Plains, Thursday, September 27.

The Back to School Night Program is sponsored in part by a coalition of community agencies including the White Plains Ministerial Council and Vicinity, the African American Men of Westchester, area Greek Letter Organizations, White Plains School District, The Communities That Cares Coalition and other community organizations.

The purpose of the Back to School Night Program is to raise the level of involvement of African American men in our children’s education and promote educational excellence in our youth.