New steps to prevent smoking and drinking at Deutsche

The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation is still waiting for the results of the Fire Department’s investigation into the cigarettes and beer cans found at the former Deutsche Bank building last month, but the L.M.D.C. has taken several safety measures in the meantime.

The L.M.D.C. added guards to each of the lower floors, where no work is currently taking place. The beer cans and cigarettes were found on two such floors, which still look very much like offices, with interior walls, doors and bathrooms. The L.M.D.C. will also have people patrolling the floors and doing inspections. The agency is in the process of setting up security cameras.

All site employees now have floor numbers on their ID badge, showing specifically where they are allowed to work. The L.M.D.C. is looking into an electronic ID system that would track where each employee is at all times.

The community was particularly upset to hear news reports about the cigarettes, since a worker’s discarded cigarette started the fire last year at the former Deutsche Bank building that killed two firefighters.

http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_282/newsteps.html

WTC widow follows fatal path of Bravest hubby, runs in memorial 5K

Congress Shelves $10.9 Billion Health Care Bill for Ground Zero Workers
October 14, 2008 (NewYorkInjuryNews.com - Featured News, New Jersey, Top Stories, Work Related Fire Fighter Deaths)

Congress recently shelved a $10.9 billion federal health care bill for sick 9/11 workers. The City, through Mayor Bloomberg, opposed the bill because of a provision that would require it to pay $500 million of the total cost of the health program over the next 10 years.

Many New Yorkers, directly affected by the attacks on the World Trade Center, closely followed the progress of the proposed legislation over the past month. Thousands of rescue and recovery workers, who served after the September 11th attacks, are now suffering from a variety of respiratory and other health ailments they attribute to their exposure to toxins and contaminants at the World Trade Center Site.

The bill’s demise is in stark contrast to the passage of a controversial $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street. Although the World Trade Center bill enjoyed strong support from New York legislators, the resistance of the City was too much to overcome.

Ironically, approval of the bill could have relieved the City of liability for approximately 10,000 lawsuits filed by World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers, who claim that the City failed to provide them with appropriate respiratory protection, causing them injury. The health care bill would have reopened the currently closed, “September 11th Victim Compensation Fund,” and enabled workers to seek compensation for their injuries from a federally funded program, instead of pursuing litigation. A precondition to an individual participating in any reopened Victim Compensation Fund would be the dismissal of his or her lawsuit. The greater the participation in a new Victim Compensation Fund, the fewer lawsuits the City would face.

The workers’ lawsuits, now pending in United States District Court in Manhattan, are over four years old. The City and its contractors, the primary defendants in the cases, lost a significant appeal in the litigation earlier this year. The City had claimed that it was entitled to immunity from any lawsuit concerning the World Trade Center response because any action it took was undertaken during a time of disaster. The appeals court rejected this argument.

The cases continue today, with the District Court working tirelessly to assess the merits of each of the individual cases. The Honorable Alvin K. Hellerstein, the judge assigned to the matters, has appointed two deputies or “Special Masters” to assist the Court in this daunting task.

http://www.newyorkinjurynews.com/2008/10/1...rs_20081014272.html

WTC owners, developers bickering over a wall
The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey is arguing with developer Larry Silverstein over who should remove a 400-foot-long wall at ground zero.

 A 400-foot-long wall in a corner of ground zero rekindled a bitter feud Wednesday between the owners and developer of the World Trade Center site, in a $300,000-a-day dispute over who should take it down.

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey told developer Larry Silverstein this week that it had finished digging up land it had promised to deliver so Silverstein could build the third of three towers he plans at the site. The agency in February finished work on another parcel it had promised to excavate.

The agency was late delivering both sections of land and has paid nearly $44 million in $300,000-a-day penalties to the developer, who is paying the agency $78 million a year in rent on the undeveloped site.

The agency said it had finished everything it had agreed to do on Sunday.

"We have delivered the site to Mr. Silverstein," the agency's executive director, Christopher Ward, said Wednesday.

Janno Lieber, who heads the trade center rebuilding project for Mr. Silverstein, said the steel-and-timber retaining wall has yet to be removed and is the agency's responsibility. The wall sits on the western border of one of the three planned office towers. He also said the agency has to install supports in a retaining wall built around the largest planned office tower.

"Our agreement calls for the PA to provide us with 'construction ready' sites, which is not what they delivered," Mr. Lieber said in a statement Wednesday.

Mr. Lieber said the Port Authority didn't let Mr. Silverstein know until Tuesday that it had finished work on the site and would no longer be paying the fees.

"It is unfortunate that the PA has failed to live up to their obligations, but we are confident this will be corrected after the matter is presented to an independent panel of arbitrators charged with resolving these types of disputes," he said.

The Port Authority said the wall, about 40 feet high and 400 feet long, is not within the tower footprint that it agreed to turn over to Mr. Silverstein.

The agency and Mr. Silverstein have sparred before about who should build the 10 million square feet of office space from the trade center and how to split billions in rebuilding money. Publicly bitter talks dragged on for four months before the agency and Mr. Silverstein made a deal two years ago that split their roles in the rebuilding process.

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll...rss01&rssfeed=rss01

BREWER (NEWS CENTER) -- A special gift that will be on display in Brewer's new public safety building arrived on Wednesday: two pieces of structural steel from the World Trade Center in New York City.

The construction company that built the new public safety building, as well as a Brewer firefighter and a Brewer police officer, traveled to New York to personally select the steel and bring it back to Brewer.

Nickerson & O'Day president Karl Ward said while it's hard to tell where on the buildings the steel came from, one of the pieces of steel has markings on it that indicate it most likely came from the bottom of one of the Twin Towers.

The pieces of steel are going to be mounted on the wall in the new public safety building to help the city remember and honor the people who died in the 9/11 attacks.

Fire Chief Rick Bronson said Brewer police and fire officials feel a connection with those who died that day.

"The brotherhood is being able to imagine that if you move the event from one place to another, instead of them it could have been us," Bronson said.

"So, as a result it forms that bond."

 There will be a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new public safety building on November 7. The structural steel display will also be unveiled on that day.

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=95088&catid=2

Ribbon cutting ceremony for the new public safety building on November 7.

http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/...lincoln_center.html


TT: Debacle at Lincoln Center
Gérard Mortier resigned from the New York City Opera earlier today, leaving that already shaky institution in desperate straits. The New York Times broke the story here. Here's the heart of the matter:

Speaking from his apartment in Ghent, Belgium, Mr. Mortier said he decided to resign when it became clear that the board would not give him the money needed to produce a meaningful slate of opera productions. He said that from the start he had been promised a budget of $60 million, a number even mentioned in his contract. But the board was prepared to approve only $36 million, he said, not much more than the basic fixed costs of running the company, leaving him little room for innovative productions.
"I told them with the best will I can't do that," Mr. Mortier said. "I cannot go to run a company that has less than the smallest company in France." Mr. Mortier is in the final year of running the Paris National Opera, which has a budget closer to $300 million. "You don't need me for that," he said.

Previous City Opera budgets had been around $42 million, not including overspending that created a $15 million deficit....


In June I wrote a "Sightings" column for The Wall Street Journal arguing that Mortier's programming innovations might well end in disaster for the company. Under the circumstances, it seems appropriate to reprint that column in its entirety. Here it is.

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New York's second biggest opera company is closing up shop--temporarily. Lincoln Center's New York State Theater, home of the New York City Opera, will be undergoing major renovations throughout City Opera's 2008-09 season. The company had originally planned to present a series of concert opera performances in various locations around the city, then decided to trim costs by cutting back to a single semistaged version of Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra" that will be be performed at Carnegie Hall next Jan. 15 and 16. In addition, City Opera's orchestra will be giving five concerts of modern music, one in each borough of New York City.

That's all, folks.

Not until the fall of 2009 will the New York City Opera resume its regular schedule, and when it does, the repertoire will consists of six 20th-century operas. No Handel, no Mozart, no Puccini--just Claude Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande," Leos Janacek's "The Makropulos Case," Igor Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress," Benjamin Britten's "Death in Venice," Olivier Messiaen's "St. Francis of Assisi," and Philip Glass's "Einstein on the Beach." All of these works are widely admired, but none has ever been mistaken for a box-office draw.

Gérard Mortier, City Opera's new general manager, is the man behind this risky roll of the dice. Mr. Mortier, who previously dished up postmodern opera at the Salzburg Festival and the Paris Opera, has said that New York needs "a new vision in opera," and his first season definitely fills the bill. But he doesn't think that New York needs a new opera house, and so City Opera is abandoning its long-standing attempt to move out of the theater it shares with the New York City Ballet and build one of its own.

To be sure, Mr. Mortier is well aware of the inadequacies of the State Theater, which was built with dance, not opera, in mind. Among other things, the house was designed in such a way as to deaden the sound of dancing feet--the opposite of what should happen in an opera house, where the goal is to make the singers on stage more audible, not less. Hence the renovations, whose purpose is not only to spruce up the shabby-looking auditorium but to improve its inadequate acoustics by installing an orchestra pit that can be raised and lowered at will.

I wish Mr. Mortier all the luck in the world, but I fear that he may have gotten things backwards. Paul Kellogg, his predecessor, had already breathed new artistic life into the once-moribund company by presenting a smartly staged, shrewdly chosen mix of operas that ranged from baroque showpieces to brand-new American works. As Mr. Kellogg saw it, the company's main problem was that it performed in a 2,800-seat auditorium that was both acoustically flawed and too big to suit the theatrically serious productions he favored. After 9/11, he pushed hard to build a three-theater complex at Ground Zero, a plan that I backed on this page five years ago. Alas, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation turned up its nose at Mr. Kellogg's ambitious scheme, and now that the redevelopment of Ground Zero has gone sour, the chances of building an opera house there are...well, zero. That's why Mr. Mortier has chosen to renovate City Opera's currrent home rather than trying to build a new one.

While I see his point, I can't help but wonder what effect the company's year-long hiatus will have on the loyalty of its current subscribers. Will they find new ways to spend their money? And even if they don't, what will they think of the fare that Mr. Mortier plans to offer them in 2009? In Europe he has long been identified with ultratrendy, government-subsidized updates of familiar operas, most notoriously a "Fledermaus" in which Johann Strauss' lovable characters snorted cocaine and got beaten up by Nazis. If that's what he has in mind for, say, "Pelléas," I have a feeling that his stay in New York might end up being shorter than he expects.

But Mr. Mortier is right about one thing. The New York City Opera needs to try something different--not because Mr. Kellogg's productions were inadequate, but because the Metropolitan Opera, City Opera's neighbor at Lincoln Center, has changed its once-stodgy theatrical ways. Under Joe Volpe, the Met offered a steady diet of blandly staged warhorses spiced up with an occasional dash of Eurotrash. But Peter Gelb, his successor, is bringing in stage-savvy directors like John Doyle and Bartlett Sher, and while the results so far have been artistically uneven, they have also brought the Met into direct competition with City Opera, which for many years had a near-monopoly on imaginatively staged large-house opera in New York.

So how does Mr. Mortier propose to fight back against the 10,000-pound gorilla next door? By offering the public a megadose of modernism. And he might be right, too, since under-40 classical-music fans appear to be more open to new sounds than their parents. If, on the other hand, he's guessing wrong about the open-mindedness of his audience, then Gérard Mortier may be remembered as the man who turned out the lights at the New York City Opera--for keeps.

WTC redevelopment agency spinning its wheels
NY Post (November 10, 2008)

Leaders at the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. have resisted Mayor Bloomberg's call to disband by claiming they have much work left to do - yet the agency's board has held only seven public meetings in the last 17 months, records show.

Created to develop a master plan for rebuilding the World Trade Center and to allocate $2.7 billion in federal reconstruction funds, the LMDC held monthly meetings before then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer took the reins in 2007.

Several board members have said privately that they don't know why the LMDC lives on with a full-time staff when virtually all of its federal funding has been allocated and the master plan is in place.

Its 50 or so employees are paid a combined $4.2 million a year, all from federal reconstruction aid.

Having a full board and an administrative structure is probably not necessary anymore," one board member said, adding, "There's not a lot left to do."

Spokesman Michael Murphy insisted the LMDC still plays a vital role, noting it provides funds for cultural and community projects.

tom.topousis@nypost.com

http://www.fireengineering.com/news/wire_s...13&publicationId=25

We Said We'd Never Forget
 
Why Is Tuesday's Children, the Organization Formed Following the Terrorist Attacks, Still Relevant?
 
By Pat Grace

Tuesday's Children began in Manhasset in the wake of Tuesday, Sept.11, 2001, and continues to shepherd the children who lost a parent in the attack on the World Trade Center.

Like all non-profits, Tuesday's Children is negatively impacted by the economy. Executive Director Terry Sears said they have pro-actively cut their budget to weather the economic downturn.

Why is Tuesday's Children still relevant? There were 110 children born after 911, Sears explained, who are only now 6 or 7-years-old and just now coming into an understanding of their loss. The mentoring program is growing, it has 62 children in it and five on the waiting list," she said. Sept. 11 is often in the news and makes them feel uniquely different from others in their class or neighborhood. Tuesday's Children brings them together in the comfort and safety of others with the same experience.

Tuesday's Children has 1,100 registered families, including 3,000 children (approximately 76 percent of all children who lost a parent on 9/11), and, according to Sears, has created an unprecedented level of trust with these families, a trust that experts now view as a prerequisite to ongoing delivery of effective service. If family member feedback is needed, Sears noted proudly, there is probably no one better suited to do so than Tuesday's Children.

"And Tuesday's Children is now a valuable resource for insight into the timeline for recovery after a traumatic loss that occurs from a wide scale terrorist attack. In the event of another attack, at the very least," Sears said, "they can step in as an invaluable resource for those assisting other families."

This is noteworthy because at its inception, in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks, the United States had never been faced with a tragedy of that nature and magnitude, and no one really knew what the children/families needs would be. Tuesday's Children partnered with leaders in the fields of child development and family advocacy, and worked closely with those they sought to serve. Today, their suite of 9/11 Family Programs and Services includes mentoring, educational and career guidance, leadership training and life management programs. Additionally, they provide referrals to experts well versed in specific needs and issues not provided by the organization.

As an outgrowth of their founding mission, to meet the needs of individuals directly impacted by the events of 9/11, they have launched two additional programs.

One is for rescue and recovery workers-- more than 39,000 in number, these workers, on average, remained for 171 days at Ground Zero, 40 percent arriving at the site when the air and environment were most toxic.

This past summer, recounted the executive director, Tuesday's Children launched their second program, Project Common Bond (PCB), initiated by the 911 teenagers themselves who were involved in the organizations programs. Their hope was that their past could help them change their future. They wanted to take their painful loss and do something for others similarly impacted, said Sears, "for instance, children in Israel live with terrorism each and every day. This connection and community building experience empowers these children to look outside themselves and find better ways to deal with their issues. Kids from the international community immediately bonded with each other. This can only be helpful in today's world."

Through programs such as Project Common Bond, Tuesday's Children is able to provide opportunities for the 9/11 families to fully heal by helping others. The end stage of grief, explained Sears, is found in the shift from the focus on oneself to the empowerment of being able to help others. Sears said the project, allows the children to gain perspective on their loss through others who have suffered a similar tragedy.

The teenagers produced a PCB Proclamation, a statement signed by 48 teenagers from six countries (United States, Spain, England, Northern Ireland, Israel and Liberia) participating in the program, that states: "We believe that with Project Common Bond we can make a difference from our own experiences and work towards peace. By coming together and making new connections we can gain a better understanding of ourselves and others. Through Project Common Bond we may aid in resolving global conflicts and make change for generations to come." Sears reiterated that these teens had one thing in common - the loss of a family member due to an act of terror. Their experience will continue throughout the year as Project Common Bond continues to engage them through online blogs and seminars.

That this organization grew out of the extensive losses in Manhasset is a testimony to the community and the loyalty of its donor base. Around 411 organizations sprang up following the attacks on Sept. 11 and only a handful, about four or five, remain and several of those do not deal with family issues. Most are involved with the New York City Memorial at Ground Zero. According to Sears the memorial will cost anywhere from $750 million to $1 billion with an annual budget of up to $60 million projected. "Bricks and mortar are important," said Sears, "but let's not forget the human element. Tuesday's Children supports the families impacted by the attack and has a budget of $1.2 million, which even in this climate is challenging." Tuesday's Children, located in Manhasset on Plandome Road, is always looking for volunteers.

In their literature Tuesday's Children says "In any tragedy, we memorialize those who are lost; but, more importantly, we must not lose sight of, and do all that we can for, those who are left, for they are the living memorials."


http://www.antonnews.com/manhassetpress/2008/11/14/news/

THE TUESDAY CLUB OF ASSONET is proud to announce its annual "Support The Troops" Drive. The club has been sending our troops supplies since 2001 starting at Ground Zero. Since that time, more than 200 packages have been sent. The club will be collecting items and shipping cost donations until shortly before Christmas.

Email ourtuesdayclub@aol.com for a complete list of supplies or contact Nancy at (508) 644-5374 or Cathy at (508) 644-2050.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.d...1116/NEWS/811160364

Patterson residents less than merry about Christmas tree near 9/11 memorial
By Michael Risinit
The Journal News • November 25, 2008

PATTERSON - Sprucing up Patterson for the holidays with a Colorado blue spruce has evoked some tidings of discontent.

The tree was planted this month at the town's 9/11 memorial, worrying some that any caroling or other merriment around it would be disrespectful toward the victims and memories of the 2001 terrorist attacks.


 However, an effort to garner good will among all is under way.

Two Patterson residents lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001: Christopher Blackwell and George C. Cain, both New York City firefighters. The memorial outside Town Hall consists of two brick walkways, representing the twin towers, and a five-sided stone marker signifying the Pentagon.

Penny Byron, secretary of the Rotary Club of Patterson, said she was "abhorred" to learn that the town couldn't find a more appropriate location. The Rotary had installed a bench at the memorial, which sits next to Route 311. The bench was moved to make way for the tree.

"Who with any dignity, self-respect and Christian values would stand in the middle of a solemn 9-11 memorial and take part in a festive Christmas tree lighting ceremony, singing joyous Christmas carols? This can only be likened to dancing on someone's grave," she wrote to The Journal News.

Byron lost a cousin, Army Spc. Chin Sun Pak Wells, in the Pentagon attack. With the exception of the bench, the remembrance is basically flush with the ground.

"It's a flat memorial. As (the 12-foot-high tree) grows, it's going to overpower everything," she said.

The Town Board discussed the tree's location and further holiday decorating of the downtown on Oct. 22, according to board minutes. The decorating is in preparation for Saturday's "A Winter's Eve in Patterson" celebration, one of several holiday festivities taking place in Patterson.

"The whole board approved this site," Councilman Joseph Capasso said yesterday. "I have no problem relocating the tree for next year."

He is part of the committee charged with the task of bedecking Front Street and Route 311 by the Patterson firehouse and Town Hall. The committee, which includes Councilwoman Ginny Nacerino, Amy Lagan of the Patterson Chamber of Commerce and Tammy Smith of the Patterson Fire Department, had a budget of about $1,900. In addition to the live spruce, they will line Route 311 with 30 5-foot-high, cut Christmas trees. Red bows, a menorah, lights and mechanical reindeer will round out the town trimming.

Lagan said she was unaware of the memorial and its extent until the tree was planted.

"If the controversy over the tree allows people to know the memorial is there, then maybe the tree is serving some other purpose," she said. "I hold 9/11 close to my heart. We all do."

Jim Byron, co-owner of Patterson Auto Body and Rotary president, said he expected the "beautiful little Christmas tree" would be moved.

"As time marches on, it is so important to all of us and to future generations to remember that 9/11 happened, people in our community were negatively impacted and we all must pray to God it never happens again," said Byron, who is Penny Byron's brother-in-law.

Lagan said the tree this year would be decorated with just white lights and luminaries would outline the memorial. Any caroling and additional decorations are planned for the town's former official tannenbaum - an older, scrubbier specimen across the Town Hall's entrance road.

James O'Neill is president of the Stephen P. Driscoll Memorial Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police, which is housed in the Lawlor Building on the other end of Route 311. Driscoll was a New York City police officer from Lake Carmel who died during the World Trade Center collapse.

"Hopefully, it's done in a respectful manner, as I'm sure it will be," O'Neill said of the tree decorating. "It sounds like they're addressing the concerns."

http://www.lohud.com/article/2008811250365

November 26, 2008
Wishbone Takes Shape at Trade Center Site
By David W. Dunlap

A bifurcated column at 1 World Trade Center. (Photo: David W. Dunlap/The New York Times)This is as seasonal as it gets for City Room’s roving reporter on the built environment: a remarkable 30-foot-tall steel structure at the base of 1 World Trade Center that reminds me of a wishbone.

Among the many complications facing the architects and engineers of 1 World Trade Center, also known as Freedom Tower, is that it is being built directly over an operating railroad. Its site coincides with the north sweep of the track loop over which PATH trains return to the Hudson River tubes, destined for New Jersey.

Columns supporting the 1,368-foot tower (1,776 feet with its mast) have to run through this track yard and, of course, must be situated so that they do not interfere with the passage of trains.


Where the column pattern of the tower and the track layout conflict, something has to give. In this case, it is column line 9B, near the northeast corner of 1 World Trade Center. There are two PATH tracks, directly below, that must be cleared. But the column itself cannot be moved. So this inverted Y-shaped structure was devised to bridge the two tracks, said Carl Galioto, a partner in the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, designers of the tower.

Now one of the most distinctive features of the World Trade Center site, the structure will eventually be covered in concrete and subsumed within the rest of the tower framework. So it’s the first, and last — the last Thanksgiving for this particular wishbone.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/...-trade-center-site/

A bifurcated column at 1 World Trade Center

Easton 9/11 memorial design endorsed
By JOEL C. THOMPSON
Staff writer
Updated: 11/30/2008


-- After seven years of debate, plans for a local memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks -- who include town native Peter Hanson and his family -- have been endorsed by the Board of Selectmen.

The 9/11 memorial, featuring a pergola on the Easton Public Library green, still needs final approval by the Planning and Zoning Commission.

"We've battled over a design for a memorial for seven years. It's about time we did something," Sal Santella, chairman of the 9/11 Memorial Building Committee, said last week.

The proposed memorial on the green in front of the library on Morehouse Road will give special recognition to the three members of the Hanson family who perished in the attacks, as well as the nearly 3,000 people who died that day.

Peter Hanson, who grew up in Easton, perished with his wife, Susan, and their 3-year-old daughter, Christine, aboard United Airlines Flight 175 when it was flown into the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Hanson, who was living in Groton, Mass., with his family at the time of his death, was the son of longtime Easton residents Lee and Eunice Hanson.

The selectmen recommended that the P&Z approve the site for the memorial on the library green. Their support came in the wake of the Library Board's unanimous backing for the plan. The P&Z will take up the proposal at 6:30 p.m. next Monday at Keller Middle School.

Selectmen Scott Centrella and Robert Lessler said the memorial, as designed by architect Mark Halstead with input from the 9/11 committee, is a decided improvement over a gazebo that had been previously considered.

Halstead, who lives in Fairfield, said he was inspired to volunteer to help the committee design the memorial because he was in New York City on the day of the terrorist attacks and saw the World Trade Center inferno.

"My most vivid memory of that awful day in 2001 was the profound blue, cloudless sky," Halstead said. "I witnessed the towers blazing in New York that morning and saw the only cloud in the sky -- the sickening black

boomerang of smoke over lower Manhattan."

He said it seemed appropriate that the memorial pergola -- a trellis-like structure supported by columns -- be open to the sky, rather than having a roof. Under the pergola, three benches are planned, one for each member of the Hanson family who died.

The memorial will also feature a landscaped, stone walkway with two walls beside it, recalling the two towers destroyed in the attack. A flagpole will stand at the end of the walkway along with a stone with wording in tribute to all the 9/11 victims.

Halstead said the memorial might cost as much as $45,000, but volunteer labor and donations could defray a large past of the expense.

If the plan wins P&Z approval, Santella said he also intends to seek an appropriation from he Board of Finance to pay for part of the cost.

http://www.connpost.com/ci_11108590