White Plains CitizeNetReporter - <i>News Bites:</i> Comptroller Visits; New Phase III Plan; City to Answer CCOS

WPCNR CITY HALL PRESS ROOM. April 22, 2003: The Mayor's Office announced today that for the first time in eleven years, the State Comptroller's office will undertake a Performance Management and Best Practices Review of specific White Plains departments as part of an overall effort by State Comptroller Allan Havesi to identify procedures that can benefit other municipalities. Auditors from Albany will be arriving Wednesday at City Hall to meet with city officials, and decide which departments they feel they want to review.

A City Hall spokesman said the review was routine, and was not initiated by any wrongdoing.

In other happenings...

The Mayor's Office advised the media today that Mayor Joseph M. Delfino would release Phase III of his citywide Revitalization Plan tomorrow after it is presented to the Common Council. Copies, it said, would be available to the public after it was in the hands of the Council.

NYPH Hospital Article 78 Procedure

Seven months after it was filed, the Article 78 filed by CCOS is beginning to come to a head. A spokesman for the White Plains Legal Department said that the CCOS attorney, Thomas Whyatt had filed his papers after three months of adjournments in the Concerned Citizens for Open Space Article 78 action in New York Supreme Court. The suit seeks to have the Common Council approval of a biotech-proton accelerator research and cancer treatment facility on the New York Presbyterian Hospital property.

The Legal Department source said the Legal Department is now working on its response to Mr. Whyatt's argument for overturning the approval, and they expected the City's rebuttal would be filed within two weeks.


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