This came in from a reliable source.
Below is an email sent from Van Cortlandt Park
Administrator Margot Perron to independent Bicycle Organizations and other NYC
Parks employees asking them to lobby at a Community Board meeting for a
proposed Parks project which will pave the Putnam Nature Trail and remove 400
trees.
Margot Perron sent this email during work hours and it
is a clear conflict of interest that a Parks employee is lobbying with outside
organizations to promote the Parks Dept.’s political agenda.
Margot Perron who is the Administrator of Van Cortlandt
Park and who also acts as the President of Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy
should legally be spending their taxpayer funded work time managing the affairs
of Van Cortlandt Park not lobbying for a future capital project.
Bike New York who NYC Parks is now proven to be
collaborating with is an entity which based on their non-profit IRS status is
specifically prohibited from lobbying yet Bike New York blatantly continues to
lobby for paving the Putnam Nature Trail. Bike New York also just last week
sued the City of New York for $900,000 because NYC wants Bike New York to pay
for NYPD fees associated with Bike New York’s 5 Boro Bike Tour. Bike New York
wants taxpayers to pay for $900,000 in fees for its own private event!
NYC Parks and Bike New York continue to collude, take
part in prohibited lobbying and are using taxpayer dollars to do so!
Demand an investigation by NYC Public Advocate Bill de
Blasio. This is clearly a conflict of
interest and a case of illegal lobbying. Contact Bill de Blasio’s Chief of
Staff, Dominick Williams at dwilliams@pubadvocate.nyc.gov
Save
taxpayer money, Save the environment, Save the Putnam Trail!
Below
is the email sent by Van Cortlandt Parks Administrator Margot Perron to Bike
New York and other Parks employees asking them to lobby at a community board
meeting for Parks proposed paving of the Putnam Nature Trail in Van Cortlandt
Park. If the community supported Park’s project there would be no need for the
Parks Dept. to lobby! Why can’t the Park’s Dept. simply do what the community
wants and keep the Putnam Trail natural? There is a great new story here if you would like to dig a little deeper!
From: Perron, Margot [mailto:Margot...@parks.nyc.
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 1:04 PM
To: biketh...@gmail.com; Rich Conroy; da...@gellman.name; Sherida Paulsen; Mattera, John
Cc: Cassino, Anthony P.; Nina Spencer
Subject: Connect/Save the Putnam Trail
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 1:04 PM
To: biketh...@gmail.com; Rich Conroy; da...@gellman.name; Sherida Paulsen; Mattera, John
Cc: Cassino, Anthony P.; Nina Spencer
Subject: Connect/Save the Putnam Trail
My
staff found flyers on the Putnam Trail this weekend encouraging folks to attend
the CB7 full board meeting tomorrow night to complain about the “highway” that
Parks is putting in. It’d be nice to have the other side of the argument also
represented. Come if you can and arrive at least a half hour early to sign up
or call CB8 during the day to sign up to speak. The April 9th
CB8 Board
Meeting is at 7:30 PM at Ft. Independence Comm. Ctr. 3350 Bailey Avenue
(between West 233rd & 234th Streets) (parking
is difficult). The CB8 office phone is 718-884-3959.
Please
let anyone you think is interested in this issue to please attend.
Thank you
for your support.
Margot
Margot
Perron
Administrator/President
Van
Cortlandt Park Conservancy
1
Bronx River Parkway
Bronx,
NY 10462
