A Hudson Valley waterfront watchdog group announced today that it has posted the full text of the Leyland project's Development Agreement with the City of Newburgh on the internet for public review.
The group, It Flows Both Ways Coalition, obtained the document yesterday after filing a Freedom of Information Law request last week.
The agreement can be viewed at http://www.regionalroundup.org/leylandDA.pdf .
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007
Howard Issues a Call for Unity
After primary win, Democratic mayoral candidate seeks party conference
NEWBURGH - Democratic mayoral candidate Lillie Howard, fresh from a commanding upset victory over the candidate backed by the Newburgh Democratic committee, called upon party leaders and the region's elected Democratic officials to acknowledge the choice made by party voters and help her implement the platform she was nominated on.
"I have called for a review of a number of matters before the city government which include the present Leyland project and the daily operation - or, more accurately, malfunctioning - of city government, and Democrats responded by giving me the nomination in a record turnout," she said. "The party leadership, both at the committee level and including our elected Democratic officials, should heed the voters' choice and help us get these things done."
Howard called on the Newburgh Democratic committee to provide support for the campaign, as, she said, "they are legally and ethically required to do for their nominee."
"This is particularly important given that I was nominated not by a few people in a back room picking straws, but by the Democratic voters of the city," she added. Howard also called on Orange County Democratic chair Jonathan Jacobson to "put the resources of the county party into the effort to bring much-needed change to our city."
She is also seeking the assistance of elected Democrats like Rep. Maurice Hinchey and Governor Elliot Spitzer in her bid to unseat Republican mayor Nick Valentine in November.
"I am facing an incumbent mayor who shares a party line with President Bush, whose policies have devastated communities like Newburgh across the nation," she said.
Howard also took a jab at city council member Sal Cracolici, whom she bested 522 to 445 last week in the Democratic primary. Cracolici will appear on the ballot on the Conservative line in November; he has announced that he intends to continue to run as a Conservative.
"Sal Cracolici now wraps himself in the banner of a party whose website proudly features disgraced Republican Newt Gingrich as its most prominent ideologue," said Howard, wondering what the implementation of a Conservative Party agenda in city hall would mean for city residents.
"There will be a definite choice for Newburgh in November," said Howard. "It will be between myself, offering real Democratic solutions to the problems facing our city, and two versions of the status quo - a Republican one and a Conservative one," she added.
PRESS CONTACT: GEOFFREY ATKINS 908 463-7266
Lillie Howard for Mayor
City of Newburgh, NY
lillieformayor@gmail.com
NEWBURGH - Democratic mayoral candidate Lillie Howard, fresh from a commanding upset victory over the candidate backed by the Newburgh Democratic committee, called upon party leaders and the region's elected Democratic officials to acknowledge the choice made by party voters and help her implement the platform she was nominated on.
"I have called for a review of a number of matters before the city government which include the present Leyland project and the daily operation - or, more accurately, malfunctioning - of city government, and Democrats responded by giving me the nomination in a record turnout," she said. "The party leadership, both at the committee level and including our elected Democratic officials, should heed the voters' choice and help us get these things done."
Howard called on the Newburgh Democratic committee to provide support for the campaign, as, she said, "they are legally and ethically required to do for their nominee."
"This is particularly important given that I was nominated not by a few people in a back room picking straws, but by the Democratic voters of the city," she added. Howard also called on Orange County Democratic chair Jonathan Jacobson to "put the resources of the county party into the effort to bring much-needed change to our city."
She is also seeking the assistance of elected Democrats like Rep. Maurice Hinchey and Governor Elliot Spitzer in her bid to unseat Republican mayor Nick Valentine in November.
"I am facing an incumbent mayor who shares a party line with President Bush, whose policies have devastated communities like Newburgh across the nation," she said.
Howard also took a jab at city council member Sal Cracolici, whom she bested 522 to 445 last week in the Democratic primary. Cracolici will appear on the ballot on the Conservative line in November; he has announced that he intends to continue to run as a Conservative.
"Sal Cracolici now wraps himself in the banner of a party whose website proudly features disgraced Republican Newt Gingrich as its most prominent ideologue," said Howard, wondering what the implementation of a Conservative Party agenda in city hall would mean for city residents.
"There will be a definite choice for Newburgh in November," said Howard. "It will be between myself, offering real Democratic solutions to the problems facing our city, and two versions of the status quo - a Republican one and a Conservative one," she added.
PRESS CONTACT: GEOFFREY ATKINS 908 463-7266
Lillie Howard for Mayor
City of Newburgh, NY
lillieformayor@gmail.com
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