Submitted by J. Reyes-Montblanc, Jun 1, 2007 19:03

The statements of City Planning and Columbia that this is a 7 month process tends to obfuscate the fact that Community Boards have only 60 days out those 7 months, in which to make their evaluation and recommendations. This tactic is intended to dismiss the Community Board's participation as not important enough to warrant even the 60 days in which unpaid volunteers do their civic duty on behalf ofthe community while the bloated well-paid over-compensated burrocrazy (I know it is spelled bureaucracy) can take 3 and half years to toy around with the voluminous data that a project of this magnitude requires; by scheduling the ULURP during the summer hiatus months not only shows disregard for the community boards it reflects a total lack of respect for the community at large. -

I am advised that the certification has now been re-scheduled to June 18th giving us two more weeks. Not much but we'll take what we can get but don't expect me to be thankful or gracious to CU, DCP or the Administration. I thank Council Member Jackson, State Senator Perkins, Assembly Member Wright, the West Harlem LDC Board and most of all the community for their support. We have lots of work to do and CB9M will do it professionaly and correctly albeit unnecessarily over-burdened and disrespected.

Thanks to the NY Sun for their fair and consistently accurate coverage.

J. Reyes-Montblanc

Chairman

Community Board 9 Manhattan

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