The Facilities Committee Meeting of March 12, 2019.
The Audit Budget and Finance/Workshop Committee Meeting of March 12, 2019.
The Instructional Committee Meeting of March 14, 2019.
The Policy Committee Meeting of March 18, 2019.
The Board of Education Stated Meeting of March 20, 2019.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Brand Film Festival London 2019 celebrates brand storytelling
PRESS RELEASE: HSBC Global Communications’ “Yonkers Savings Bank” piece may win international animation award
QUOTE: “All books tell stories – even books found in banks,” explains archivist Anne DiFabio as she introduces her favorite item from HSBC’s historical collection in New York.
NEW YORK: In the bank’s latest video, the US Archives Manager shows why a humble 19th century accounts book – a ledger from Yonkers Savings Bank – is the object she treasures most.
Yonkers Savings Bank opened its first branch in New York State in 1854. Its ledgers, which were added to the archives in 1999 after its owner was acquired by the HSBC Group, give a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people.
Ms DiFabio says: “Until the mid-1800s, banks were only really for the very wealthy. All this really changed with the birth of savings banks. Anyone from anywhere could deposit nearly any amount of money.”
Among those who benefited were African-Americans, newly arrived immigrants, and married women, who could open accounts that were legally independent from their husband.
As the granddaughter of US immigrants, Ms DiFabio feels a personal connection to the ledgers.
She says: “The savings bank opened up financial opportunities regardless of ethnicity, gender or age, which is a tradition that HSBC proudly continues to this day in branches all over the world.”
The bank’s four archive centers are located in Hong Kong, London, New York and Paris. They contain the historical records not just of HSBC, but of the many institutions that have been acquired by the Group as well as their predecessor companies.
There are more than 180,000 cataloged items in the collections, including letters, photographs, cartoons, films, advertising, banknotes, architectural drawings and interviews with staff.
All of them shed light on the social, economic and political history of the communities and places where HSBC has done business.
YONKERS: Parkledge Preservation, LLC is proposing a $4.9 Million Capital plan for 220 – 250 Yonkers Avenue that would include roof repairs, facade improvements, elevator cab upgrades.
Parkledge’s goal is to fix outstanding health and safety items, as well as, well as adding security upgrades.
Mayor Mike Spano asked Parkledge to improve access for children so that they can access school buses safely through a now closed rear gate.
Currently, the children must walk along Yonkers Avenue to get to their buses
Mayor Mike Spano also asked Parklege to take a look to at a neighboring vacant house where the ground has eroded away.
It has been 32 years since state officials increased the amount of funding provided to Yonkers for maintaining state arterial highways, which has been too long for Yonkers and cities across New York
During the annual winter meeting of the New York Conference of Mayors (NYCOM), from 38 cities that have deals with the state officials to maintain arterial highways once called for the amount of funding to increase to be aligned with the consumer price index.
They want it increased for the first time since 1987.
Yonkers and the 37 other cities that maintain state arterial highways want a $12 million increase that would have a small impact on the $160 billion state budget.
Yonkers currently get 85 cents per a square yard to maintain state highways.
If increased to the cost of living allowance, Yonkers would receive $1.87 per square yard.
The cities that maintain state arterial highways say it’s only a $12 million impact on the $160 billion state budget.
More than doubling what Yonkers receives from Albany to maintain state roads.
That would increase Yonkers’State Road Aid to $939,564.
Yonkers currently only receives $427,074 from the state.
Yonkers has 502,441 square yards of state arterial highways, which ranks second in the state behind New York City at 7,999,975 square yards
The maintenance agreement includes plowing snow; small repairs and resurfacing; work on gutters, curbs, sidewalks and drainage systems; and street lighting,
The state handles construction and major repair and resurfacing work.
If the increase was accepted by the state legislature, Yonkers and NYCOM is also asking that the rate per square yard be annually be adjusted to reflect the consumer price index.
MAJOR LEGISLATION: Yonkers Senator Shelley Mayer Plans To Drop A Bomb On Mayor Mike Spano, As She And Other Senators Call For A Local IDA Tax Break Reform Package
Members of Senator Shelley Mayer’s staff say the senator and other colleges will will introduce 11 bills that target at industrial development agencies
The Senators plan to introduce the package of bills that would rein in powers of local industrial development agencies, like the Yonkers IDA, that include changing how tax breaks are given out and structured.
The Bills would ban IDA Chairman Mayor Mike Spano from giving incentives to projects that are already under construction or in which the developer is not identified.
Senator Shelley Mayer’s co-sponsored legislation would also require school districts to be involved in payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements, and close a loophole that allows an IDA to lure a project from another local IDA.
Multiple Yonkers IDA projects would be subject to the limitations outlined in the legislative proposals.
Senator Shelley Mayer’s is also proposing that tax money be recouped, in what is called a claw back, if a Yonkers IDA project’s job creation numbers aren’t met.
The senator’s legislation also calls for a member from organized labor to serve on IDA boards.
And get this, Senator Shelley Mayer is also proposing that elected officials, like Mayor Mike Spano, not be allowed to serve on IDA boards.
BLUE WAVE: However, now that Yonkers’ Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is in control of the majority in the Senate, observers say the legislation has a good chance of getting enacted this session.
YONKERS: Some Yonkers developers and business leaders are apoplectic over proposed state legislation that would require them to pay union wages on projects that receive any public funds, which they say will curtail growth
The proposed legislation would redefine public projects to include private projects that receive government incentives or any publicly funded financial assistance.
It would also mandate that those projects pay prevailing wages according to a schedule set by the state’s Department of Labor and labor union representatives.
Yonkers union officials who have lobbied hard for the measure, the bill, opponents say, would add higher labor costs to new real estate developments.
There is a carve out in the bill that exempts multifamily projects where at least 75 percent of the units are affordable to people earning 60 percent or less than the area median income.
Though state law already requires that workers on public projects be paid prevailing wages, the proposed law would expand that mandate to public/private partnerships and private developments or businesses that get tax breaks or economic incentives from industrial development agencies for expansions and job creation.
Opponents of the bill are hoping it will be watered down or heavily amended rather than passed as written.
Just a year after the Yonkers IDA adopted a rule forcing developers that get incentives to sign project labor agreements with union contractors, the city cancelled it because its IDA went the entire year without a deal.
Yonkers’ Mayor Mike Spano called the pilot program “a dismal failure.” in the press
SYNOPSIS: Years ago Mary Rose vanished on a secluded island. She was found not knowing she had even been missing. Now, the island is calling her back again.
The address for the event is 28 Wells Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10701, but the door is on the Bashford Street side.
It’s very close to the Riverfront Library, DMV and the Yonkers Metro-North station.
More Information Can Be Found Here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2224386991106607/
Some parents say the Yonkers Public Schools need to build in more days to the calendar.. Other districts build in four or five days. Yonkers has two days.
The state requires all school districts to be in session a certain number of days.
Adding in additional snow days means either cutting vacation days or extending the school year, most likely before labor day.
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Job Overview As a Sales Supervisor, you will support My Macy’s and drive sales for a specific selling area in partnership with a Sales Manager. You will be responsible for assisting the Sales Manager by supervising all daily selling activities and leading a selling team in your selling area. Responsibilities include, assisting in the selling process; driving customer service through coaching and monitoring selling behaviors; teaching product knowledge and communicating policies and procedures. Perform other duties as assigned. This position leads to placement as a Sales Manager. Sales Essential Functions: • Drive and exceed sales goals by executing Macy’s initiatives. • Lead the push toward selling through coaching and recognition. • Review reports, identify deficient areas and partner with Sales Manager to implement action plans. • Identify best sellers and key items; communicate merchandise needs to optimize the My Macy’s process. • Ensure accuracy of promotional presentation communicate advertising and sales information to Associates. • Strengthen attendance and weekend hours compliance among staff • Motivate Associates to solicit our Star Rewards Program by reinforcing the benefits of new accounts. • Review your personal Selling Area Scorecard monthly for your Associate Turnover, Sales & Star Rewards results. • Establish high level of shortage awareness and effectiveness; ensure that all policies and procedures are implemented. Customer • Coach Associates to consistently deliver effective selling behaviors resulting in high customer engagement. • Review & utilize Associate Scorecards to provide recognition; partner with Sales Manager to develop and communicate strategies to improve results. • Observe Associates twice daily through formal observations focusing on selling behaviors; ensure Associates are providing an outstanding shopping experience to all customers. • Coach to Associate Scorecard metrics weekly through daily informal observations defining one focus metric and behaviors to improve an individual metric. • Ensure optimum sales floor coverage and lead selling initiatives throughout the store as required. • Maintain high customer readiness standards; deliver a clean, neat and easy to shop store environment. People • Partner with Sales Manager to interview and employ selling focused Sales Associates. • Engage in Macy’s recognition program; reward Associates with recognition cards. • Provide input to performance evaluations; ensuring Associates participate in the development of individual performance improvement plans. • Make recommendations on Associate promotion, advancement, talent development and termination. • Address Associate concerns in a reasonable and fair manner, consistent with the values expected by the Company. • Create a positive, inclusive work environment resulting in retention of the best people and turnover reduction. • Coordinate Associate vacation scheduling and paid time off for Sales Manager’s total area of responsibility. • Regular, dependable attendance & punctuality. Education/Experience Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree preferred or comparable work experience. • 1-2 years experience. Communication Skills • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • Ability to read, write and interpret instructional documents such as reports and procedural manuals. Mathematical Skills • Basic math functions such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and analytical skills. Reasoning Ability • Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision and make sound decisions. Physical Demands • This position involves regular walking, standing, sitting, hearing, and talking. • May occasionally involve stooping, kneeling, or crouching. • May involve close vision, color vision, depth perception, focus adjustment. • Involves manual dexterity for using keyboard, mouse, and other office equipment. • May involve moving or lifting items under 10 pounds. Other Skills • Demonstrated leadership/supervisory skills. • Strong interpersonal and organizational skills. • Ability to empower and develop a team. • Ability to collaborate and function as a member of a team. • Ability to execute plans and strategies. • Strong organizational skills and the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities. • Ability to anticipate and solve problems, act decisively and persist in the face of obstacles. • Ability to work in a fast pace environment. • Commitment to exemplifying the highest integrity and professional business standards. Work Hours • Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and company needs. This job description is not all inclusive. Macy’s Inc. reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. Macy’s Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment
Despite one-party rule in Albany, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers failed to reach a consensus on a revenue forecast for the 2019-20 budget — an indication that negotiations for a new spending plan will be challenging over the next few weeks.
The consensus economic and revenue forecast report is an important element of budget negotiations. It represents an agreement between the governor and state Legislature on the revenues available for the budget.
In February, Cuomo and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced that the state was facing a larger budget gap than anticipated due to a $2.3 billion decline in income tax receipts. Cuomo blamed the drop on the 2017 federal tax law that capped state and local tax deductions at $10,000.
Other factors contributed to the decline in tax receipts, including the volatility of the financial markets.
With less revenue for the budget, some funding priorities may need to be scrapped or reduced. In his executive budget proposal, Cuomo called for multi-billion dollar investments in education and health care. He also wants to continue some of his top initiatives, including $750 million for the regional economic development councils.
The Assembly and Senate will release their one-house budget plans this month.
“It is unfortunate that we could not come to an agreement on a revenue consensus with the governor,” Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said in a statement. “It remains the intention of both the Assembly and the Senate to reach a fiscally responsible, on-time budget that meets our priorities.”
Join The Yonkers Chabad for a festive Purim in true stadium style!
Thursday, March 21st at 5:00PM
Chabad of Yonkers: 600 N. Broadway
Suggested Donation:$36 Family, Sponsor: $180
Rabbi Hurwitz
718-679-3614
Chabad of Yonkers
600 N. BroadwayYonkers, NY 10701
www.JewishYonkers.com
SHADY DEAL: Yonkers City Council Members Are Holding An #Emergency “Special Meeting” Tomorrow With Just 24 Hours Notice To Pass A Resolution Asking New York State To Convert The Existing #Yonkers Racino Video Lottery Terminals To Full Casino Gaming For #MGM, Without Getting Rid Of The Horrific Rooney Family’s Flat Rate “Payment In Lieu Of Taxes” (#PILOT) That Has Children Holding Classes In Hallways And Seniors On The Verge of Losing Their Homes In The City Of Hills.
Why should MGM get anything, if Yonkers children are going to hold classes in hallways and seniors on a fixed income don’t get tax relief?
Please be advised that a Real Estate Committee Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 4:00pm in the Council Chambers, Yonkers City Hall, 4th floor.
The following item will be on the agenda:
1. A request for a recommendation from the Planning Board on a proposed text amendment to the Yonkers Zoning Ordinance to create a “Culture & Arts” zone and change the zoning map at Block: 3515 Lots: 80,90, 100 & 115 on the properties known as 1061, 1085 and 1097 North Broadway, 101 Odell Avenue and the Old Croton Aqueduct.
New York State Citizen Preparedness Corps
Saturday, March 23, 2019 – Yonkers, NY 03:00 pm to 04:30 p.m
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
*This presentation will be in Spanish
488 South Broadway
Yonkers, NY 10705
UPDATE: There Is Also An English Program
Saturday, March 23, 2019 – Yonkers, NY 12:30 pm to 02:00 pm
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
*Translation will be in English*
488 South BroadwayYonkers , New York 10705
PRESS RELEASE: Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano today announced that the City of Yonkers is accepting nominations for the city’s annual “Women of Distinction” Award, presented each year during March to celebrate Women’s History Month.
YONKERS: The annual “Women of Distinction” Award recognizes Yonkers women who have served their local community and positively impacted the lives of Yonkers residents. The public can nominate a Yonkers resident as a woman of distinction at www.YonkersNY.gov.
QUOTE: “So often it is our women who give so much of themselves to ensure Yonkers becomes a better city in which to live, work and play. They are our community leaders, educators and agents of social change,” said Mayor Mike Spano. “I encourage our Yonkers residents to nominate the heroes in their lives for our Women of Distinction Award.”
The deadline to submit a nomination is Wednesday, March 20; the award ceremony will be held on Thursday, March 28 at 6:00 pm at Yonkers City Hall (Ceremonial Courtroom, 4th Floor).
About Women’s History Month
Women’s History Month originated in 1981 when Congress passed a resolution requesting President Reagan to commemorate “Women’s History Week.” The President proclaimed the week beginning on March 7, 1982 as the first Women’s History Week and the nation continued to designate a week in March as Women’s History Week until 1987 when the month of March was officially declared “Women’s History Month.” Learn more at www.womenshistorymonth.gov.
A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.
With a Tomatometer Score of 80 percent and an Audience Score of 67 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this 1977 release comes with positive recommendations.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kentucky_fried_movie
The Chicago Reader’s Dave Kehr said, “It’s easy to spoof cliches; it’s something else again to string them together with the insight into narrative structure these boys evidence,”
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-kentucky-fried-movie/Film?oid=1059271
Time Out said, “Great fun for an undemanding night out.”
Get a piece of the action at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers (2548 Central Park Avenue) on Tuesday, March 5, at 7 p.m.
WATCH THE TRAILER: David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne), two American college students, are backpacking through Britain when a large wolf attacks them.
David survives with a bite, but Jack is brutally killed. As David heals in the hospital, he’s plagued by violent nightmares of his mutilated friend and none of the locals will admit the creature exists.
With a Tomatometer Score of 88 percent and an Audience Score of 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this 1980s classic has much to recommend it
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/american_werewolf_in_london
Time Out’s Tom Huddleston saying, “Not just gory but actually frightening, not just funny but clever, ‘American Werewolf…’ has its flaws, but these are outweighed by the film’s many, mighty strengths.”
INTERESTED? It’s playing at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers (2548 Central Park Avenue) on Sunday, March 3rd, at 7 p.m.
YONKERS The Luxury units feature granite countertops and subway-tile backsplashes,
LUXURY: Energy Star Whirlpool appliances, Kohler fixtures, and walnut cabinets with soft-close hardware.
The building offers sweet perks, including a ground-floor River Club Lounge, an indoor pool overlooking the river, a roof-level River Club Bar with floor-to-ceiling windows, state-of-the-art fitness room, and 24-hour concierge service.
SYNOPSIS: Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris.
A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbor shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiraling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.
Set to be released today, Friday, March 1, “The Hole in the Ground” already has a Tomatometer Score of 88 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_hole_in_the_ground
“The Hole In The Ground finds a somewhat fresh angle on the possessed-kid subgenre,” noted Mike D’Angelo of the AV Club
https://film.avclub.com/the-hole-in-the-ground-is-spooky-fun-until-its-big-met-1832899581
The Hollywood Reporter’s Leslie Felperin said, “While this is more generically conventional than Jennifer Kent’s breakout thriller, it still taps potently into parental anxieties and primal fears.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/hole-ground-review-1181547
You can catch it at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers (2548 Central Park Avenue) through Thursday, March 7th
Please be advised that a Government Operations and Oversight Committee Meeting has been Scheduled for Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 4:30pm, in the Council Chambers, Yonkers City Hall, 4th floor.
2. Any additional items that may properly come before this Committee
SEARCH WARRANT: A man and woman were arrested after police said more than a kilo of cocaine, human growth hormone, and $22,500 was seized
PATCH: Yonkers Pair Accused Of Drug Possession, Sale
TARRYTOWN, NY — A Yonkers man and woman were accused selling drugs in Westchester County.
The Greenburgh Drug & Alcohol Task Force said Lually Paulino, 36, and Yesenia Nunez, 31, both of Yonkers, face multiple felony drug charges as a result of an observed hand-to-hand cocaine sale by task force officers.
With the assistance of a state police K9 and her handler, Paulino, who police said was the seller, was found to have about 21 more grams of cocaine.
Information from the arrest led to the execution of a search warrant at Paulino’s home in Yonkers.
The search warrant, executed by the Yonkers police and the Greenburgh task force, yielded the recovery of more than a kilo of cocaine, a hydraulic kilo press, a quantity of Humatrope, which is a human growth hormone, and about $22,500 in cash.
Nunez, who lived at that location, was arrested….
https://patch.com/new-york/tarrytown/yonkers-pair-accused-drug-possession-sale
YONKERS: Westhab Had Their Dayspring Commons Housing Project Tabled For A Month, While The Reach Out To The Labor Community About A Possible Union Project Labor Agreements (PLA)
The possible Westhab PLA would cover housing built on land at 227 Elm Street And 320 Walnut Street for the construction of 63 units of affordable housing for low income and formerly homeless families, as well as, renovating a church into a 20,000 square foot community center.
The proposed complex would sit next to the former Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church at 203 Elm Street
The Dayspring Community Center at 320 Walnut Street, in Yonkers’ Nodine Hill area, was bought by Westhab in December 31, 2015 for $1.
The community center currently has afterschool programs for over 40 elementary school children and a dozen or so teens
The Yonkers-based Westhab received Yonkers Zoning Board of Appeals approvals for several variances in order to build Dayspring Commons, on top of a garage with 97 parking spaces to be located at 227 Elm Street.
For more than a dozen years, Yonkers officials have worked on urban renewal plans for the Nodine Hill neighborhood, a predominantly low-income area where some of the city’s oldest and most dilapidated housing is located.
Nodine Hill is one of the city’s oldest and lowest income neighborhoods with a large, transient rental population.
Westhab’s Executive Director Rich Nightingale has said that there is some difficulty of cultivating community leaders in an area that residents tend to leave when they can afford something better.
YONKERS: James Comey and most of his large Irish family grew up in the City and his grandfather was Chief of Police during the 1950’s
NINETY SECOND ST Y: James Comey, who has taken criticisms from the political left, for re-opening the Hillary Clinton email investigation ten days before the 2016 election, and the right, who believe that leaked memos to hurt President Trump, has a best-selling book and media tour underway
YOUTUBE: James Comey book ‘A Higher Truth’ is about his four decades of public service in law enforcement.
PRESS RELEASE: The beloved founder of Project Children, Denis Mulcahy, is best known for bringing Catholic and Protestant children to America for summer holidays at the height of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, and now a new scholarship program in his name will send American youngsters to Ireland.
The Mulcahy Scholarships will be formally launched next Tuesday by the Aisling Irish Center and the Irish Consulate at an event that is sold out.
The annual summer scholarships are starting small but will undoubtedly be in high demand given the esteemed reputation of Co. Cork native Mulcahy, whose Project Children brought tens of thousands of kids from the North to all corners of America, giving them the chance to enjoy each other’s company despite their different religious backgrounds.
The launch event on Tuesday at Scandinavian House in Manhattan and the April 18 event in the same venue will also include a screening of the documentary How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story, which outlines the history of the group founded in 1975.
Mulcahy, a retired NYPD detective who worked on the bomb squad, is a board member of the Aisling Irish Community Center in Yonkers. The center wanted to do something special to recognize his contributions towards the Irish peace process, particularly in relation to bringing children on both sides together.