The Rye City Review goes to White Plains – finds Playland bombshell.
-Entire Rye City Council unaware of alternative Playland Field House use provision according to Rye Democratic County Legislator Catherine Parker – but she was.
-Rye City Council never had a copy of the actual county agreement with SPI says Parker
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-Rye City Review finds Rye officials unavailable or unwilling (Ms. Brett) to comment on previously undisclosed Field House alternative uses provision.
-Clause provides for allowable additional uses of the Field House facility including, but not limited to, “community business functions, awards banquets, civic gatherings, Boy/Girl Scout functions and exotic car shows.”
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-Pinnacle Indoor Sports – SPI’s Field House management company – hosts gun shows and expos at their other facility.
(Noam Bramson, load, lock and call your office.)
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And here is Catherine Parker previously - when supposedly only she knew about the alternative use provisions for the Field House -
“In my opinion, hiring land use attorneys at $10,000 was unnecessary. …At a meeting between Mayor Joe Sack, Deputy Mayor Laura Brett, Deputy County Executive Kevin Plunkett and myself, Plunkett stated that while the county would be the lead agency, [the county] would take an advisory opinion from Rye…I stated that if Mayor Sack directed staff and commissions, Rye could bring their findings to the meeting with the Board of Legislators. As a legislator for Rye, I feel an additional sense of responsibility to incorporate the advisory opinion of Rye into my deliberations.”
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