I just received the complete meeting package for the 9-6-2017 meeting of the New
Rochelle IDA and slides with renderings.
Talk of the Sound has obtained a copy of an IDA Audit Report of the New
Rochelle IDA (NRIDA) which is expected to be released by the Office of the New York State Comptroller (OSC) next month.
about New
Rochelle IDA Executive Director Schulman Removed in Wake of Daming Comptroller Audit of City Agency
The letter cites the finding in recent audit of the New
Rochelle IDA by the New York State Comptroller that the IDA has failed to do a cost - benefit analysis of proposed projects.
about New
Rochelle IDA Chair Marianne Sussman Disputes Talk of the Sound Report on IDA Staffing Changes, Calls Article «Defamatory»
According to the New York State Comptroller, the New
Rochelle IDA has only ever approved projects for which it has done no cost - benefit analysis, for which it has relied entirely on developers for data and analysis of that data and never once bothered to evaluate the success of a completed project against the promised benefits put forth by the developers.
The State Comptroller Audit of the New
Rochelle IDA cries out for placing the IDA directly under Council control as has been proposed by Council Member Richard St. Paul.
Not exact matches
Were the citizens of New
Rochelle gathered together and asked to support the
IDA projects at the time what might the answer have been of the community at large?
While l02
IDA's are protesting their tax bills from the State of New York (Westchester County Business Journal, 4/12/10), the residents of New
Rochelle are aware that local
IDA benefits given to developers have not been financially rewarding to the City.
Richard St. Paul, Louis Trangucci and Albert Tarantino, the three Republican members of the New
Rochelle City Council have made a home rule request of New
Rochelle's four Albany lawmakers — State Senators Jeff Klein and Suzi Openheimer and State Assembly Representatives Amy Paulin and George Latimer — requesting their assistance in «the drafting and filing of State legislation under Home Rule provisions to allow the City of New
Rochelle to have full power to approve the New
Rochelle Industrial Development Agency (
IDA) decisions as it relates to granting benefits to
IDA applicants.»