Showing posts with label Mayor's OneNYC Plan Leaves Many Out of the Process. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mayor's OneNYC Plan Leaves Many Out of the Process. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Mayor's OneNYC Plan Leaves Many Out of the Process



   Mayor Bill de Blasio's OneNYC Plan according to Capital One which promised an unprecedented outreach effort from every corner of the city has many Community Board leaders questioning 'What Outreach'? Capital One quotes Bronx Community Board 12 Chairman Father Richard Gorman as saying "No one called here", meaning the Community Board 12 office. 

   OneNYC Plan is a legally four year mandatory updated version of the then Mayor Bloomberg PlaNYC. According to the story, Capital One contacted all 59 citywide Community Boards to find out how many were involved in the community outreach process. Of the 31 responses, 22 CB leaders said that they had no input in the One NYC Plan, and added that some still have not been contacted even though it is more than two months since the OneNYC Plan was rolled out by the de Blasio administration. 

   While the Capital One story says that there were some community meetings, others were not held or hard copies of the OneNYC Plan were not made available. It is also said that the same consultants that were used to make up the PlaNYC for Mayor Bloomberg were used by the de Blasio administration. Also mentioned is that City Hall spokeswoman Amy Spitalnick said it was never the mayor's intention to have meetings with all 59 community boards. In response to being shown an e-mail that said city officials planned to meet with all 59 Community Boards, she replied that it was "A Typo." Go to the link at the beginning of this posting to read the entire Capital One article titled 'De Blasio planning process skips many community boards.