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Slow Fade: WP Sales Tax Revenues
Decline in 6 of Last 8 Months, Down 2.7%, $1 Million
County Sales Tax Dollars Up in 6 of
last Months. Up 4.5% 1st Two Months of 2019.
WPCNR QUILL & EYESHADE. From the New York State Department of Taxation & Finance with analysis by John F. Bailey. March 26, 2019:
White Plains is in a slumping economy.
Perhaps March with its inclement weather and March Madness will turn things around.
It has to, because after 8 months of the city fiscal year, the city has earned $33,038,728, $929,896 behind the 2017-18 pace, a 2.7% decline. White Plains sales taxable activity has declined almost 5% below the inflation rate which is about 2%.
Meanwhile, Westchester County is 4.5% ahead the first two months of its new fiscal year, the county economy has grown for the 7th straight month and maintained its average of approximately 5% growth each month. That is more than double the inflation rate.
White Plains, as it plans its 2019-20
Budget, should be concerned.
If White Plains pulls in last year numbers the next 4 months it will receive $49.147 Million in sales taxes.
If the 3% declining rate is continued over the next 4 months, the revenue will erode to $48.664 Million in sales tax receipts.
With labor negotiations in mind, where a 3% increase is expected to be lobbied for by all unions, in line with the precedent the county set in its negotiations, a 3% decline in sales tax revenues (that fund White Plains year to year raises in the payrolls)—
PLAY BALL! TIGER PITCHER FIRES THE FIRST PITCH OF THE WHITE PLAINS FASTPITCH SOFTBALL SEASON ON A NEW FIELD (WITH BIG LEAGUE FOUL POLES), WITH NEW TIGERS!THE TIGER STAKE THE FIELD–ALWAYS A THRILL ON OPENING DAYFIRST HOMEPLATE MEETING OF THE SEASONTHE TIGERS WARMING UP ON FASTPITCH WEATHER 50 DEGREES FEELS LIKE 30 DEGREES ON O’DONNELL’S BLUFF. AND GET A LOAD OF THOSE REAL FOUL POLES! AND A BRAND NEW INFIELD.THE JOHN MCGRAW OF SOFTBALL…TED O’DONNELL STARTING HIS 24TH SEASON AS WHITE PLAINS TIGERS VARSITY SOFTBALL COACH, HIS 30TH CONSECUTIVE SEASON OF COACHING AND DEVELOPING PLAYERS WITH HEART, COURAGE, AND CLASS. HE HAS COACHED THE GREATEST GAME FOR 30 YEARS. BEFORE THE GAME, HE SAID, “We have quite a number of tough games but the girls have been working hard. This is the youngest team I have ever had; 5 Frosh, 4 Sophs, 2 Juniors and no seniors.” THEY WON THEIR OPENER IN A THRILLER, 14-3.
April Monthly Meeting: The White Plains Police Department
The April Meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 7:30 pm at Education House, 5 Homeside Lane, White Plains, NY. Our special guests will be Captains Spencer, Kralik, and Murphy.
Captain Spencer is a 19-year veteran recently promoted to captain, and has worked in patrol, special operations, community advocacy and strategic initiatives. He is currently community liaison and commander of the crisis negotiations team. He became a sergeant in 2005 and lieutenant in 2009.
Captain Nicholas Kralik is a second generation White Plains Police Officer who has been serving the city since 1981. He is currently the Commanding Officer of Special Operations, which encompasses the Traffic and Emergency Services Divisions. Over the past three decades he has held various positions within the department. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1998 as a Patrol Division commander. Captain Michael Murphy is a 31 year veteran of the Department. His current assignment is as Commanding Officer of the Patrol & Special Operations Division where he oversees the Patrol Division, Emergency Services Unit, Neighborhood Conditions Unit and K-9 Unit. During his career, he has been assigned as the Commanding Officer of the Traffic Division.
Captain Murphy is also a 2006 graduate of the 226th Session of the F.B.I. National Academy. All three captains will take about their operations.
Please come with questions and suggestions. You’re sure to enjoy the dialog. The meeting is open to the public — bring your friends and neighbors — and will start promptly at 7:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served.
SMOKE BILLOWING FROM VIA VENETTO RESTAURANT ON GROUND FLOOR OF TRUMP TOWER JUST BEFORE NOON AT CITY CENTER SATURDAY. WHITE PLAINS FIREFIGHTERS EXTINGUISHED THE BLAZE THAT CAME FROM A WOOD BURNING STOVE IN THE RESTAURANT. FIVE FLOORS OF THE CONDOMINIUM WERE EVACUATED. NEWS 12 REPORTED ONE PERSON WAS TREATED FOR SMOKE INHALATION. THE SMOKE APPARENTLY WENT UP A DUCT IN THE BUILDING. Photos Tweeted to WPCNR by an observer
MIKE WELLMAN ON WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO JUMPSTART BIOTECH
THE WESTCHESTER AVENUE APARTMENTS IN OFFICE PARKS EFFECT
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN LAWRENCE HOSPITAL TAKES CLEAR SCAN PICTURE OF THE HUMAN HEART ABLE TO SINGLE OUT HEART DEFECTS TO GREATER EXTENT THAN EVER BEFORE.
BUSINESS COUNCIL OF WESTCHESTER TO BOARD OF LEGISLATORS: ENHANCE THE AIRPORT, DON’T EXPAND
PARCEL A: SITE OF PLANNED FASNY SCHOOL ON FORMER RIDGEWAY COUNTRY CLUB (ABOVE) WILL BE WITHHELD FROM SALE.
WPCNR SOUTH END TIMES. From the French American School of New York March 21, 2019 updated WITH CLARIFICATION, 10 A.M. SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2019:
IN A NEWS STATEMENT FRIDAY, The French-American School of New York (FASNY) has decided to divest part of its Ridgeway property in White Plains.
FASNY recently retained CBRE, a commercial real estate services firm, to market and sell three undeveloped portions of the property, while retaining the 28 acres that are approved for construction of its Secondary School campus and a 51-acre nature conservancy.
FASNY is selling
what are known as Parcel B (14 acres between Gedney Esplanade and
Heatherbloom Road); Parcel C (15.5 acres between Heatherbloom and Bryant
Avenue); and a portion of Parcel D (18.4 acres starting from Hathaway Lane and
heading towards Ridgeway) that is not part of
the dedicated nature conservancy. The parcels are zoned for
single-family residential use.
FASNY entered a stipulation of settlement with the City of White Plains and ultimately obtained site plan approval and a permit for a reduced project for its Secondary School (grades 6-12) campus only on Parcel A.
The conditions of the approval pertain only to Parcel A and the conservancy, with residential use remaining in effect for the balance of the property.
The FASNY Board of Trustees
remains committed to the vision of a future permanent campus for the school and
is working to create the best conditions to fulfill this vision.
John Sheehan, President of the Gedney Association involved in a legal action challenging the city approval of the new school construction on parcel A (not for sale) gave WPCNR this statement on this development:
“The Mayor and the Common Council has egg on their faces,“ was Sheehan’s first reaction to the news of three parcels for sale.
“They didn’t require information on what the school would do with the rest of the property after the revised (Parcel A) school plan was approved. When Councilperson Nadine Hunt-Robinson asked what they would do, the city was told by FASNY they would build nothing with the undeveloped property for 15 years. The Gedney Association will insist that the R-30, 30,000 square foot zoning of the (Parcels B,C, D) will be strictly enforced.”
CLARIFICATION: In a written statement to WPCNR Sunday, Mr. Sheehan added this information to clarify a White Plains Week program comment by John Bailey:
“I never said that the 47 acres now on the market) to be sold could accommodate approximately 50 homes. I might have said the entire property might accommodate 50 homes according to earlier estimates. I have no idea of the potential number for these parcels. I would say however that parcel c and d have mapped wetlands and steep slopes. Areas dedicated for new roads would also be deducted from any lots. Also, parcel A is approx. 28 acres, not 79.”
Asked if the Gedney Association might initiate a new legal action against this effort to sell of property, violating SQRA regulations forbidding segmentaion, Sheehan said “That’s an interesting question.”
Vegan environmental activist Ray Ippolito will lead a conversation on
what we can do to save the planet in a forum at the Community Unitarian
Universalist Congregation at White Plains (CUUC) on Sunday, March 24, from 11:30–1:00. The forum is sponsored by the
congregation’s Animal Advocacy Social Justice Team and is open to the public;
it is suitable for school-age children and adults. Light food and beverages
will be provided.
CUUC is located at 468 Rosedale Avenue, White
Plains, NY 10605. Childcare can be provided if requested by noon on Wednesday, March
20; send request to CUUCevents@gmail.com.
