[CPEO-BIF] "Uncertain fate" for NY School Leasing Bill

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Toxic school bill's fate uncertain

by patrick arden
metro new york
JUNE 22, 2007

QUEENS. The Bloomberg administration lobbied hard in Albany this week to 
stop a state bill that would have enlarged the City Council's role in 
approving new school sites.

But despite the administration's opposition, Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott 
will join Speaker Christine Quinn today to celebrate the Council's 
recent approval of a new Gateway High School. That project grew out of 
talks between the administration and the Council after controversy arose 
over the school's location at the polluted former Queens County morgue. 
Negotiations in the Council resulted in the city agreeing to a stricter 
cleanup and monitoring scheme for the toxic land. Today's event 
describes their final pact as "an overwhelming victory for the 
community, the Council, [and] the Administration."

...

For the entire article, see
http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Toxic_school_bills_fate_uncertain/9098.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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