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"Corcoranistics" Still Making a Difference for White Plains
Posted on Thursday, September 26 @ 10:50:24 EDT by jfbailey
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WPCNR FRONT PAGE CAFE'. By John F. Bailey. September 26,2002: No one who encounters Candyce Corcoran ever forgets the experience. Ms. Corcoran, a resident of the Highlands, has served the community relentlessly for the last two decades. But, what makes Ms. Corcoran different is she works behind the scenes to achieve reasonable goals a little bit at a time.
A quiet example of "Corcoranistics" is the ordinance establishing a handicapped parking space in front of Walker Surgical Supply at 70 E. Post Road.
When Ms. Corcoran injured her foot last spring and had to make frequent trips to Walker’s for equipment and recuperative devices, she discovered that there was no handicapped-designated parking within a short walking distance of that store and other stores for surgical supplies . She discovered this was very typical of downtown White Plains.
When Candyce gets upset, she naturally figures what happens to her happens to a lot of persons. But she does not shrug her shoulders. She does not hold a news conference. She does not file a lawsuit against the city.
Instead, she works. She tries to understand the problem. She gets on the telephone to city hall. She meets with city commissioners, extracts policy statements and keeps after them until she achieves something positive for all. Her techniques for getting things done get things done, from acquiring sponsors for Little League, to establishing a Little League parade, to getting out votes for the Democratic Party as a former District Leader. Corcoran gets things done.
In the handicapped parking discovery, Ms. Corcoran met with Traffic Commissioner Ted Gammon, met with the Parking Authority, and did her persistent follow-up with the city and the Mayor’s Office. She patiently made her case, and hopes in addition to work for establishing more handicapped spaces at strategic places around town.
It got done by the Council passing of the ordinance in September. The entire process took some three months. Quietly. Efficiently. Without embarrassing city officials, without paying a lawyer, without the obligatory "outrage" story in the press, but with results.
Ms. Corocoran has volunteered to be Little League President, where one is needed because Rich Masseroni is stepping down. The League could not go wrong.
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