The funds for remediation actually were there before the bill as did the state plan that includes acres for active recreation. The new bill was said to be to set a taskforce in stone (they added some people to it as well ) It came with a promise of 250 million dollars but came out of committee with 50 million. The bill came out of the blue and was pushed through in about two weeks. Flyers for a "vision for the park" were sent out at the same time. Those turned out to come from this new People's Park Foundation (they stole the name often used by those advocating for the park.) The renderings seen in the foundation's flyers were displayed at the hearing and took over the conversation. It also meant that the protection act was dead in the water.

All these coaches can't really hope only their program would benefit right ?

The Fireman people's plan is not to scale but merely a utopian rendering. There simply isn't the space to it all.

Had some loaded fries at Six26 yesterday and they were delicious.

That at least they are working on

So you work in NYC? What does that have to do with JCBOE? I am against the tests too and am hopeful that JCBOE will be a little less focused on them now that they are no longer under state control. People here talk about transparency without mentioning that it was the state who was responsible for everything the JCBOE did for years.

That's actually not true. Vasquez was with him on the ticket last time and she voted for the budget (In an op ed this week she explains why.) The other two on his slate now are new so they have never voted.