State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) is asking the School Construction Authority to do its homework when it comes to picking sites for educational facilities.
As the senator and Bayside residents rallied against the proposal to place a public high school at the former site of the Bayside Jewish Center, located at 203-05 32 Ave., Avella on May 14 introduced legislation that would require the SCA to give elected officials and community boards the reasons as to why a particular site was picked for an educational facility.
Avella said he has been working on the bill for a while, but introduced it two weeks ago after the city announced its plans to have a school at the 32nd Avenue site.
“You could say that was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” the senator said in an interview with the Queens Chronicle.
The bill, if signed into law, would require the city to give the reasons why a new school is required in the area, identify any other sites that were considered for the school and why the site chosen won over all other possibilities.
He also said he’s pushing for the legislation because his staff was told by SCA President and Chief Executive Officer Lorraine Grillo that they were not notified of plans for the site because the agency, “didn’t want to give him time to organize” against them.
Avella called that conversation “disrespectful” and said “I think it’s time for Lorraine Grillo to go.”
16 comments:
Avella always introduces legislation to curb corruption. Bravo!
How many of his bills get passed? The crooks are out to burn Tony.
He is a threat to their scamming and pilaging.
Keep it up, senator. The walls of corruption can be cracked open.
Where is Paulie Vallone?
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All Politicians Promise
All Politicians ???????!
the claim that csd 26 needs 34oo seats is bogus. the seats have been hi-jacked by the special educa. div . they place 7"pupils " in one room ,meant for 25 pupils .
the cost for one S.E.pupil is $65,000 to $90,000. as opposed to $20,000/pupil/year for one regular pupil.
your Property tax increased 21 % in ten years.
what else to do with the former Bayside Jewish Center? would the community prefer a homeless shelter instead? What?
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Crappy, you used to complain about how overcrowded the schools are all the time. What happened? Did your oldest kid finally graduate? If so, congrats! Just don't let that be reason to not let all those younger get a sub par education.
Bay side needs a really gaudy mosque
How is building a school in an area where it's not wanted going to improve education?
Paulie Vallone is too busy lobbying for his developer clients. Now double your bets , you losing dumb asses. Re-elect phony Valloney!
Damn! My butt hurts fro being reamed by this arrogant chitrool! He'll win a second term because who will unseat him?
The wannabees will come out of the woodwork to primary Vallone. But they don't have his money or army of campaign workers. Do they?
Yawn! Another Avella"intro". Another Tony press conference.
Where's the beef? My burger bun is empty.
Can stupidity be stopped with stupid voters keeping stupid politicians in office?
Not likely! Everyone need remedial classes to increase their election selection IQs.
CSD 26 parents and civics is forgetting that I.S.25 ,which is fed by csd 26 -6th graders,&7-8 graders, also has a P.S.993 S.E. (7 pupils /room and the High School for world journalism 9-12 grades.most come from the boro of Queens outside of CSD 26/25
why did the Bayside Times lie that the Keil property slated for a elementary school was not permitted by the D.O.E. ?did they want to hide the fact that news articles and politicians claimed that 3400 seats were needed and dist. 26 was overcrowded ? LIE LIE LIE THE NEW SCHOOL IS ON ITS WAY ,WITH YOUR PROPERTY TAXES.
NO LEGISLATION WILL BE IN TIME ,IF PASSED ,TO SAVE THE N.E.QUEENS FROM THE INTERLOPERS FROM CENTRAL America ON BUSES, THAT YOU PAID FOR.
If so many neighborhood comprehensive high schools weren't closed under Bloomberg, maybe the local comprehensive high schools wouldn't have been overcrowded by kids coming from way out of the zone. By the way, the high school process is bogus; why should children have to "apply" to get into a high school? As a result of this de-zoned high school admissions process, all the kids and their parents want the better high schools in north Queens: Francis Lewis, Bayside, Cardozo. The schools that were closed and reopened have a million boutique high schools and charters housed in them, top heavy with administrators. Kids are cherry picked and these new schools actually offer a lot less than the school that was formerly in that building. Hence, the kids crowd into our neighborhood high schools. Another small school such as this one is an ineffective way of dealing with systemic incompetence
Tony will retire soon....collecting two pensions...state and municipal. Then where will we be?
Avella will be in clover. We will be knee deep in horse shit!
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