WPCNR COMMON COUNCIL CHRONICLE-EXAMINER. From The Mayor's Office. November 8, 2007: Mayor Joseph Delfino has acted today to call a Special Meeting of the Common Council this afternoon to move up the public hearing date for passage of a local law which will make White Plains eligible again for the National Flood Insurance Program administered by the Federal Emergency Management Association. The new date for the public hearing is Tuesday, November 20 two days before Thanksgiving Day.

Monday evening the Common Council had set a hearing for the same law on December 3. The city's vulnerability became known  through a "CitizeNetReporter" indignantly complaining to the city that it's ineptitude in responding to DEC warnings of impending cancellation all summer long had caused that citizen to have his flood insurance not renewed. The city has now reacted to move up the legislative action to reinstate city eligibility for flood insurance. The citizen received payment on flood damage in his basement at the Northeaster that had afflicted the city. 

FEMA had confirmed to WPCNR White Plains had "excluded" itself form the program by not passing a local law agreeing to the new digitized flood maps for Westchester County by last September 28. The oversight became known to the city when a residen, renewing his flood insurance, was informed by his insurance company that his policy had been cancelled effectively September 28 and could not be renewed due to the FEMA policy. The Official Notice follows:

1.            Communication from the City Clerk in relation to the scheduling of a public hearing on proposed Local Law Introductory No. 3 of 2007, which amends the White Plains Municipal Code regarding Flood Damage Prevention.

2.                        Resolution of the Common Council of the City of White Plains rescinding a prior resolution and scheduling a public hearing for November 20, 2007 in relation to repealing Chapter 9-11 of the White Plains Municipal Code, entitled “Flood Hazard Areas” and amending Title VII of the White Plains Municipal Code, by adding a new Chapter 7-10 entitled, “Flood Damage Prevention,” as authorized by the New York State Constitution, Article IX, Section 2, and the New York State Environmental Conservation Law, Article 36.