During public comments to the Board of Trustees, our leading housing advocate lost her cool before a heckling crowd and gave her critics a middle finger on departure.
She lives in one of the multi-million dollar stone homes with beautiful views of the river. She inherited this from her family. What a lovely life to live off your trust fund and then turnaround and tell hard working people with children in the public school district that they are NIMBYs and luddites.
I was just thinking the same. Not only is she intent on ruining our village with urbanization schemes, she is clearly unfit to hold a position like this when level headed community members trying in vain to save our village challenge this ridiculous nonsense.
We need to start an active group to challenge this and unseat our Mayor, Deputy Mayor and those trustees that keep voting for urbanization. I also think that most people don’t know that our Mayor is also chief of staff for our state senator, who is running in November. So every urbanized housing project that destroys our little village is a resume credit with the Democratic Party for our Mayor’s future job ambitions. We need to start a Croton First mission to remove our village elected officials as well as get some lawyers involved to stop this. We have always been “affordable Croton” and the fancy Westchester and Long Island towns lawyered up, whenever stupidity comes to ruin those villages that aren’t affordable. Send me an email and we will start an action committee. Marketyourkidforcollege@gmail.com Let’s also move to unseat Pete Harkin our Mayor’s boss.
I completely agree that this is more about political ambition than it is about altruism towards those in need of affordable housing. Maple Commons has been the only legitimate recent effort in this regard, the remaining projects are highly suspect and villagers are correct in being concerned. Moreover, the travesty that is the construction of 25 So. Riverside is an example of the inability of the village to oversee this level of construction, especially with contractors that are clearly in over their heads.
IMHO it is not time for Shatzkin to step down. She got frustrated and 'gave the finger' to the outspoken crowd. Big deal! She was pushed, she lost her cool, and lifted her hand. That doesn't mean she shouldn't continue fighting for what she believes in. Regardless of where you stand on this important issue substance is more important than style. What is said is more important than how it is said. Let's continue to listen and learn about the facts.
As a former public official on NYC public works projects, I’ve faced many a hostile crowd. Once you descend to that behavior you lose both your credibility and legitimacy.
Her talk was insulting at the podium because we all know she has inside ties to the village and trustees. I feel her comments were full of inaccuracies, especially about our schools having so much room for new students. She made it sound like every thing the developers were proposing was true and that residents concerns were completely unfounded. She has a conflict of interest showing support to because of her role in village politics. It feels as though she has outsized influence. I know heckling wasn’t appropriate but I could feel the crowd’s frustration with her and a board that has long ignored them. The board even shamelessly voted to start the rezoning process of 1 Half Moon Bay last night, after seeing and hearing from a big unhappy crowd.
After seeing Nance give the crowd of residents the middle finger, I feel should resign and apologize. She had no respect and professional way about her. She conducted herself in a highly inappropriate manner despite residents jeers of disapproval. The fact that they voted how this one person wanted and ignored the 80 plus other people tells me the board is biased and doesn’t have standards for village employees or volunteers. Disgraceful!
From the description provided in this editorial, it appears that apologies are due all around. Given the heated nature of this meeting and the board's unwillingness to take control over the tenor or the meeting or the behavior of the public, it seems inappropriate to call for the resignation of one individual, who was clearly provoked, when so many behaved poorly.
I agree with you that there was bad behavior all around. However, the call for Shatzkin to step down was based on more than just this one meeting, but the antagonistic relationship that she has formed over many years against those who question what they see as runaway development in the village and her long-term failure to hear those concerns and communicate with those who harbor them. This was not a one-off reaction on her part.
Thank you for clarifying the Katz/Maple Commons "ownership" LLC's.
She lives in one of the multi-million dollar stone homes with beautiful views of the river. She inherited this from her family. What a lovely life to live off your trust fund and then turnaround and tell hard working people with children in the public school district that they are NIMBYs and luddites.
I was just thinking the same. Not only is she intent on ruining our village with urbanization schemes, she is clearly unfit to hold a position like this when level headed community members trying in vain to save our village challenge this ridiculous nonsense.
We need to start an active group to challenge this and unseat our Mayor, Deputy Mayor and those trustees that keep voting for urbanization. I also think that most people don’t know that our Mayor is also chief of staff for our state senator, who is running in November. So every urbanized housing project that destroys our little village is a resume credit with the Democratic Party for our Mayor’s future job ambitions. We need to start a Croton First mission to remove our village elected officials as well as get some lawyers involved to stop this. We have always been “affordable Croton” and the fancy Westchester and Long Island towns lawyered up, whenever stupidity comes to ruin those villages that aren’t affordable. Send me an email and we will start an action committee. Marketyourkidforcollege@gmail.com Let’s also move to unseat Pete Harkin our Mayor’s boss.
I completely agree that this is more about political ambition than it is about altruism towards those in need of affordable housing. Maple Commons has been the only legitimate recent effort in this regard, the remaining projects are highly suspect and villagers are correct in being concerned. Moreover, the travesty that is the construction of 25 So. Riverside is an example of the inability of the village to oversee this level of construction, especially with contractors that are clearly in over their heads.
IMHO it is not time for Shatzkin to step down. She got frustrated and 'gave the finger' to the outspoken crowd. Big deal! She was pushed, she lost her cool, and lifted her hand. That doesn't mean she shouldn't continue fighting for what she believes in. Regardless of where you stand on this important issue substance is more important than style. What is said is more important than how it is said. Let's continue to listen and learn about the facts.
As a former public official on NYC public works projects, I’ve faced many a hostile crowd. Once you descend to that behavior you lose both your credibility and legitimacy.
Her talk was insulting at the podium because we all know she has inside ties to the village and trustees. I feel her comments were full of inaccuracies, especially about our schools having so much room for new students. She made it sound like every thing the developers were proposing was true and that residents concerns were completely unfounded. She has a conflict of interest showing support to because of her role in village politics. It feels as though she has outsized influence. I know heckling wasn’t appropriate but I could feel the crowd’s frustration with her and a board that has long ignored them. The board even shamelessly voted to start the rezoning process of 1 Half Moon Bay last night, after seeing and hearing from a big unhappy crowd.
After seeing Nance give the crowd of residents the middle finger, I feel should resign and apologize. She had no respect and professional way about her. She conducted herself in a highly inappropriate manner despite residents jeers of disapproval. The fact that they voted how this one person wanted and ignored the 80 plus other people tells me the board is biased and doesn’t have standards for village employees or volunteers. Disgraceful!
From the description provided in this editorial, it appears that apologies are due all around. Given the heated nature of this meeting and the board's unwillingness to take control over the tenor or the meeting or the behavior of the public, it seems inappropriate to call for the resignation of one individual, who was clearly provoked, when so many behaved poorly.
I agree with you that there was bad behavior all around. However, the call for Shatzkin to step down was based on more than just this one meeting, but the antagonistic relationship that she has formed over many years against those who question what they see as runaway development in the village and her long-term failure to hear those concerns and communicate with those who harbor them. This was not a one-off reaction on her part.
That just about sums it up.