07/20/11 Rye Town Supervisor Joesph Carvin Reported On His Continued And Substantial Losses At Rye Town Park (Updated)

Photo: Party Hardy - Rye Town Supervisor Joseph Edward Carvin Is Too Busy Hanging Out At The Ritz Carlton Hotel In White Plains, Instead Of Fixing The Problems That Are Causing Deficits At Rye Town Park / Oakland Beach.

Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin will chaired a meeting of the Rye Town Park Commission last night to discuss how the Carvin administration will deal with another year of mounting losses at Oakland beach, as well as, the latest expensive Carvin RFP (request for proposal) on automated parking and beach access system.

Many Port Chester, Rye Brook, Rye City and Rye Neck taxpayers say that Mr. Carvin's obligations at Altima Partners has prevented the Rye Town Supervisor to properly manage Oakland beach. Last property owners had to make up an unnecessary loss.

However, some park commission members have said that Supervisor Joe Carvin has put in controls that may prevent or limit the deficit. This is very critical in 2011, because Supervisor Carvin promised that there would be a surplus at Rye Town Park, before his term was up this year.

Commission members have said to prevent a deficit this year the Rye Town budgeted expenses may be cut from $980,000 to $950,000 mainly by cutting employee hours. Security and life guard hours would not be cut.

It is rumored that pre-season park income was almost non-existent for some reason and was about $20,000 less than last year. Park employees say that the beach only made about $1,200 this year on July 3rd compared to $45,000 last year.

Meanwhile, the Friends of Crawford Park will focused on ways to beautify the other Rye Brook park that Mr. Carvin has ignored. The Friends of Crawford Park met last night at Crawford Park mansion, 122 North Ridge St., Rye Brook.

Conservative, Democratic, Independent And Republican Voters Are Starting To Say That The Town Of Rye And It's Parks Are Suffering, Because The Joe "AWOL" Carvin Is Too Often Missing And Can't Be Found When Critical Decisions Must Be Made;

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07/19/11 The The New Colonialism Is Being Directed By The Man Who Sits On The Third Floor Of Rye Town Hall

Rye Town Supervisor Joesph Carvin Snaps Up African Farmland

Joe Carvin's Altima Partners investment fund is buying up farmland in Africa and Latin to grow food for export -- a profitable business, with a growing global population and rapidly rising prices. The high-stakes game of real-life Monopoly is leading to a modern colonialism to which many poor countries in African and Latin American countries submit out of necessity.

Every crisis has its winners. A group of them are sitting in Joseph Edward Carvin's Altima Partners LLP's offices in New York.



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UPDATE:

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE RYE TOWN PARK COMMISSION

Contact Person:

Bishop M. Nowotnik

Purchasing Director &

Confidential Secretary to the Supervisor

Town of Rye

10 Pearl Street

Port Chester, New York 10573

Tel: 914-939-3075 ext. 101

RYE TOWN PARK COMMISSION

MEETING NOTICE

Commission Members

Joseph Carvin-President

Douglas French, Mayor-City of Rye

Dennis Pilla, Mayor-Village of Port Chester

Joan Feinstein, Mayor-Village of Rye Brook

Benedict Salanitro, Commissioner

Joseph Sack, Commissioner

DATE & TIME: Tuesday, 7/19/2011@ 6:00PM

PLACE: Rye Town Hall

10 Pearl Street-3^rd Floor Courtroom

Port Chester, New York 10573

Tentative Agenda:

1. Roll Call
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Comments from the Public
4. Park Manager’s Report
5. June Financial Report
6. Capital Repairs Discussion
7. Automated Parking RFP Discussion
8. Correspondence

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07/20/11 The Rye Town Confidential Secretary Bishop M. Nowotnik Releases Current Rye Town Park Financial Statement

		Actual		Approved	Variance
	June 30, 2010	Audited 2010	June 30, 2011	Budget 2011	To Budget	%
Revenue
Rental Income - Concession	33,765	84,413	34,778	90,000	(55,222)	38.64%
Parking Fees	150,356	335,847	86,217	305,621	(219,404)	28.21%
No. Gate Admission	16,126	50,373	9,286	44,839	(35,553)	20.71%
Mid Gate Admission	111,584	293,305	77,108	262,908	(185,800)	29.33%
South Gate Admission	40,239	107,616	31,141	95,931	(64,790)	32.46%
Investment Income	102	509	39	500	(461)	7.80%
Permits	50,680	60,530	87,435	68,000	19,435	128.58%
Other Income	17,332	52,767	20,385	52,576	(32,191)	38.77%
Total Revenue	420,184	985,360	346,389	920,375	(573,986)	37.64%
Wages
Salaries - Directors	19,309	41,912	24,041	44,100	20,059	54.51%
Salaries - Foreman	15,891	31,781	16,208	32,417	16,209	50.00%
Salaries - Groundsman	62,091	133,839	37,618	130,961	93,343	28.72%
Salaries - Security	27,881	84,541	30,195	66,042	35,847	45.72%
Salaries - Life Guards	23,171	115,155	35,330	114,351	79,021	30.90%
Salaries - Cashiers	27,155	93,608	39,796	92,288	52,492	43.12%
Salaries - Attendants	23,289	46,787	8,732	35,325	26,593	24.72%
Total Salaries	198,787	547,623	191,920	515,484	323,564	37.23%
Benefits
Social Security	13,443	43,718	15,402	39,435	24,033	39.06%
Workman's Compensation	2,500	5,500	3,000	6,000	3,000	50.00%
Medical Insurance	11,100	22,200	7,500	15,000	7,500	50.00%
Retirement		6,600			-	#DIV/0!
Unemployment Insurance	5,375	65,610	699	30,000	29,301	2.33%
Total Benefits	32,418	143,628	26,601	90,435	63,834	29.41%
Utilities, Taxes and Interest
Telephone	1,825	4,682	2,420	5,800	3,380	41.72%
Utilities	13,084	44,491	14,658	44,500	29,842	32.94%
Sewer Tax	29,764	29,764	30,328	30,000	(328)	101.09%
Interest Costs		23,689	6,258	15,000	8,742	41.72%
Total Utilities, Taxes and Interest	44,673	102,626	53,664	95,300	41,636	56.31%
Administrative
Professional Fees	22,338	43,050	19,658	52,900	33,242	37.16%
Insurance	54,550	54,550	54,241	54,275	34	99.94%
Office	1,567	2,713	1,293	3,210	1,917	40.28%
Total Administrative	78,455	100,313	75,192	110,385	35,193	68.12%
Operations and Maintenance
Miscellaneous	134	535	9,599	2,000	(7,599)	479.95%
Beach Supplies	8,743	13,161	4,767	13,000	8,233	36.67%
Refuse Removal	325	325	427	5,000	4,573	8.54%
Promo, Print, Signs			7,775	6,000	(1,775)	129.58%
Equipment	12,300	25,397	13,028	15,500	2,472	84.05%
Equipment - Repairs	6,763	14,652	5,837	15,000	9,163	38.91%
Repairs - Building and Grounds	36,087	118,008	39,490	105,000	65,510	37.61%
Concerts and Events	1,517	7,190	5,600	8,000	2,400	70.00%
Uniforms	5,697	10,976	5,280	7,000	1,720	75.43%
Total Operations and Maintenance	71,566	190,244	91,803	176,500	84,697	52.01%
Total Expenditures	425,899	1,084,434	439,180	988,104	548,924	44.45%
Net Expenditures over Revenue	(5,715)	(99,074)	(92,791)	(67,729)

07/20/11 Astorino To Cuomo: Build This Bridge And More News From The Port Chester Topix News Message Board

Port Chester - News July 20, 2011 See Port Chester Weather Astorino to Cuomo: Build this bridge (LoHud) A replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge doesn't have to be fancy - it just has to be built before it becomes unsafe and must be shut down, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino said Tuesday. ... the Hudson River just north of the bridge. A $16 billion plan would include improvements to Interstate 287 from Port Chester to Suffern while adding new mass transit in addition to a new span. But, with money tight everywhere, Astorino said they ... Comment?

07/20/11 Only A Fool Would Pay A Buck To Look In The Westmore News For A Job !!! Here Are Free Port Chester Job Listings From The Daily Port Chester

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07/20/11 Port Chester brothers get 'big' break with bank musical

The plot of "The Big Bank" -- a musical about a banker who falls in love with the owner of a flower shop he is sent to foreclose on -- could have been plucked from today's headlines.

Instead, it was written and composed 16 years ago by two brothers from Port Chester, N.Y., with help from a Greenwich piano teacher.

The story behind the musical is a bit more timeless. Years after Jacob and Daniel Seligmann had given up on the dream of seeing their creation on stage, and had moved on to separate careers in show business, "The Big Bank" will have its premiere, with 12 performances through the Emerson Theater Collaborative in Mystic from July 21 to 31.

The production has also been accepted by the New York Musical Theatre Festival , a fall festival where such acclaimed Broadway productions as "Next to Normal" and "title of show" have premiered.

The Seligmann brothers had their sights set high when they first started working on "The Big Bank" in 1994, in the house where they grew up. As Jacob, now 36, tells it, the two were watching journalist Charlie Rose interview composer Andrew Lloyd Weber and lyricist Tim Rice , who had collaborated on such hit musicals as "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita."

Daniel, a writer, had just graduated from college and Jacob had finished his freshman year at Brown University in Providence, R.I. Daniel, now 39, turned to his brother at one point and said, "We could do that."

So they did.

Daniel wrote the book for the musical, drawing from his experience of seeing friends jumping into jobs at investment banks after college, working 70-hour weeks. Jacob was the musician, having taken piano lessons from Stuart Hemingway in his Riverside home, so he came up with the melodies. The two even named the main character, Stuart, after Hemingway.

Hemingway, who lost his vision years ago, taught his students to play piano by having them listen to him, sending them home with recordings instead of sheet music. After Jacob wrote the songs for "The Big Bank," he brought them to his lessons, and Hemingway worked on the piano arrangements.

"He would sing what he wanted and I would play behind it, and it seemed to work pretty well," said Hemingway on a recent afternoon at the Nathaniel Witherell nursing home in Greenwich, where he now lives. "It sort of evolved out."

Later, Jacob made digital recordings of Hemingway playing the musical's score by using a keyboard that connected to his computer.

After the Seligmann brothers finished "The Big Bank," they shopped it around, at one point even meeting with legendary theater producer Harold Prince, who was interested in the musical for a director's workshop. There was even a reading of the play at the Lambs Club in Manhattan, but nothing came of it.

"It was the first real rejection I took really hard as a writer," said Daniel, who eventually moved to Los Angeles and has been working in the film industry as a writer and producer.

A couple of years ago, on a rainy day in New York City, the pair's mother, Michele Seligmann, was sharing a cab with a woman and they got to talking. She was involved with the Emerson Theater Collaborative, and Michele told her about "The Big Bank."

In 2008, as the economic crisis took hold and foreclosures popped up in every city and town, Jacob started thinking about getting "The Big Bank" going again.

"`The Book of Mormon' took forever," he said of the show by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, which recently won the Tony Award for Best Musical. "These are monumental projects. The timing has to be right. The timing for `The Big Bank' is perfect."

Daniel said he and his brother used the foreclosure process as a way to easily dramatize what banks do, never foreseeing how close it would come to reality.

"It's funny that I've been absolutely riveted and fascinated by the hypocrisy of investment banks and the government," Daniel said. "I think this is a story that just wants to be told. That's why it's finding the path that it is, even 16 years later. I don't think it would have meant a lot to people back then."

Back when he and Jacob were recording the music for "The Big Bank," Hemingway suggested Old Greenwich resident Stephanie Kies to sing the part of Iris, the flower shop owner. Hemingway had accompanied Kies when she sang at local church services and other venues. What Jacob and Daniel didn't know, however, was that Kies owned the Old Greenwich Flower Shop, which she ended up selling shortly afterward, in 1996.

"I always thought this would happen someday," said Kies of the musical's recent successes.

The men's father, Joel Seligmann, believes "The Big Bank," with its theme of love and kindness winning out over selfishness and greed, has Broadway potential.

"The message isn't just timely, it's for the hope in all of us," he said. "Look, I'm the father, and even great people have fathers."

The achievements are particularly bittersweet for Hemingway, who suffered a stroke several years ago that paralyzed his left side, leaving him unable to play the piano.

"I'm glad for Jake," Hemingway said. "He's worked so long on it."

Hemingway, who at one point taught 75 students a week, said he considers Jacob one of his most talented pupils.

"I think he could have been a jazz player," Hemingway said.

Jacob has worked for the last 10 years composing music for television, and also teaches piano to his students in the same way Hemingway taught him.

When it was confirmed that "The Big Bank" was going to be performed, Jacob used Hemingway's recordings and other computer software to create sheet music for the show, a painstaking process.

"Hearing the music director now playing, (Hemingway's) like living and breathing through this guy," Jacob said.

Jacob is anticipating a busy fall. The cast party for the Mystic production will be held Aug. 1, and by the next morning, he'll be working full-time in New York, getting the production ready for the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

"For sure Broadway is the goal, and I really think that's where it's going," Jacob said. "It seems so inevitable at this point."

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07/20/11 Westchester Tops State Norm For Felony Conviction Rates and more from Port Chester Patch

Today 89° 72° Tomorrow 95° 73° July 20, 2011 Your News Westchester Tops State Norm For Felony Conviction Rates William Demarest | Jul 19, 2011 | 7 Comments 2010 saw a nearly 50 percent decline in homicides from the previous year's 43 cases. See more News »

07/20/11 Rye Brook Waldenbooks To Close And More News From The Daily Port Chester

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Rye Brook Waldenbooks To Close
by Ryan Villarreal | 07/20/11
	RYE BROOK, N.Y. -- Harrison resident Nora Holmes has always liked the feel of a real book in her hands and shook her head when she found out her neighborhood Waldenbooks was closing down. "They [book stores] have to compete with the Kindle and the iPad and they're losing business," said Holmes, 20, READ MORE

State Senators Join Astorino On TZ Bridge Tour
by Meredith Shamburger | 07/20/11
	TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's calls for making the Tappan Zee Bridge a priority were echoed today by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Sen. Chuck Fuschillo. The Long Island senators visited the bridge Tuesday to survey its condition and offer their support READ MORE

Cancer Fighters 'Swim Across America'
by Danny LoPriore | 07/19/11
	LARCHMONT, N.Y. -- Each summer for the last 19 years, thousands of volunteer swimmers have been diving into Long Island Sound and dozens of local swimming pools for 'Swim Across America-Long Island Sound – helping to change the lives of those stricken with cancer. The 2011 fundraising "swims" began READ MORE

County's Rabies Outbreak Leads the State
by Robert Michelin | 07/19/11
	MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y. – Westchester has had the most reports of rabid animals of any county in the state so far this year, health officials say. Every day, it seems, there is another report of a rabid animal somewhere in Westchester. Last week, it was a rabid kitten that READ MORE

Port Chester Taxi Drivers Wait To Be Heard
by Ryan Villarreal | 07/19/11
	PORT CHESTER, N.Y. -- Taxi drivers and company owners showed up in force to speak at the public hearing on the extension of their licenses at the Board of Trustees meeting Monday, but the hearing had to be rescheduled due to an error by the clerk's office. Notices sent out by the clerk's office gave READ MORE