WPCNR The BID Report. By John F. Bailey. July 19, 2007: Rick Ammirato, the Executive Director of the White Plains Business Improvement District, told WPCNR that the BID has tallied the results of business owners in the West Post Road and South Mamaroneck Avenue and out to Bloomingdale Road who have opted not to join the BID as the organization has proposed.

Rick Ammirato, Executive Director of the BID explaining the expanded BID program to the Common Council in May

Ammirato, speaking to WPCNR from the organization's new offices at 237 Mamaroneck Avenue Wednesday said he would be sharing those sentiments with the Common Council next Thursday in the Council work session. He indicated that the results were surprising, but the organization has a plan that he felt would be acceptable to all, based on the results. He said he would advise the Council on that plan next Thursday. Ammirato added, as a courtesy to the Common Council he could not share the results before he made his presentation to them.

Ammirato said that the new expanded BID could not be in place until 2008-2009, and the BID was operating on the lower budget submitted, approximately $600,000, rather than the expected $1.6 Million that it would have become had the expanded BID gone into effect this fiscal year.