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Franchise and Concession Review Committee Public Hearing February 9, 2015 Franchise and Concession Review Committee Public Hearing February 9, 2015 1 1 2 -----------------------------------------------------x 3 PUBLIC HEARING 4 FRANCHISE and CONCESSION REVIEW COMMITTEE 5 -----------------------------------------------------x 6 22 Reade Street 7 New York, New York 10007 Spector Hall 8 Monday, February 9, 2015 9 2:46 p.m. 10 APPEARANCES: 11 12 Mayor: Peter Hatch 13 Corporation Counsel: Sharon Cantor 14 Office of Management and Budget: Emily Cushman 15 Comptroller: Richard Friedman 16 Brooklyn Borough President: Andrew Gounardes 17 Manhattan Borough President: James Caras 18 Queens Borough President: Elisa Velazquez 19 Parks Department: David Cerron 20 Clerk: Stephanie Ruiz 21 22 23 24 25 Franchise and Concession Review Committee Public Hearing February 9, 2015 2 1 Proceedings 2 MR. HATCH: Good afternoon. The 3 Public Hearing will now come to order. 4 Will the Clerk call the roll. 5 MS. RUIZ: Mayor. 6 MR. HATCH: Here. 7 MS. RUIZ: Office of the Mayor. 8 (No response.) 9 MS. RUIZ: Comptroller. 10 MR. FRIEDMAN: Here. 11 MS. RUIZ: Corporation Counsel. 12 MS. CANTOR: Here. 13 MS. RUIZ: Office of Management 14 and Budget. 15 MS. CUSHMAN: Here. 16 MS. RUIZ: President, Borough of 17 the Bronx. 18 (No response.) 19 MS. RUIZ: President, Borough of 20 Brooklyn. 21 MR. GOUNARDES: Present. 22 MS. RUIZ: President, Borough of 23 Manhattan. 24 MR. CARAS: Here. 25 MS. RUIZ: President, Borough of Franchise and Concession Review Committee Public Hearing February 9, 2015 3 1 Proceedings 2 Queens. 3 MS. VELAZQUEZ: Here. 4 MS. RUIZ: President, Borough of 5 Staten Island. 6 (No response.) 7 MR. HATCH: Welcome to this Public 8 Hearing of the Franchise and Concession 9 Review Committee. The hearing being 10 conducted today has been publicly 11 advertised in accordance with the New York 12 City Charter and Concession Rules of the 13 City of New York. 14 We want to be sure that anyone 15 desiring to be heard has an opportunity to 16 do so. All persons wishing to speak must 17 fill out a request slip, which may be 18 obtained from the Clerk. Each speaker will 19 be allotted approximately three minutes. 20 When you testify, please state your name 21 and affiliation, if any. 22 Will the Clerk please call the 23 first calendar item. 24 MS. RUIZ: New York City 25 Department of Parks and Recreation, Franchise and Concession Review Committee Public Hearing February 9, 2015 4 1 Proceedings 2 Calendar Item No. 1: 3 In the matter of the intent to 4 award as a concession the renovation, 5 operation and maintenance of a catering 6 facility, snack bar, and/or a restaurant at 7 the heliport building at Flushing Meadows 8 Corona Park, Queens, for a potential 9 20-year term, to the Crystal Ball Group, 10 Inc. doing business as Terrace on the Park. 11 MR. HATCH: Does anyone wish to 12 testify? 13 (No response.) 14 MR. HATCH: If no one wishes to 15 speak, that concludes today's hearing. We 16 ask that the reporter make the entire 17 Public Hearing Agenda, which was made 18 publicly available and distributed at this 19 hearing, part of the final record of the 20 proceeding. 21 The hearing is now closed. Thank 22 you. 23 (Time noted: 2:48 p.m.) 24 25 Franchise and Concession Review Committee Public Hearing February 9, 2015 1 A Department (2) 1:19 3:25 Mayor (3) 1:12 2:5,7 action (1) 5:16 desiring (1) 3:15 Meadows (1) 4:7 advertised (1) 3:11 distributed (1) 4:18 minutes (1) 3:19 affiliation (1) 3:21 doing (1) 4:10 Monday (1) 1:8 afternoon (1) 2:2 E N Agenda (1) 4:17 allotted (1) 3:19 E (2) 5:2,2 name (1) 3:20 and/or (1) 4:6 Elisa (1) 1:18 New (7) 1:7,7 3:11,13,24 5:4,8 Andrew (1) 1:16 Emily (1) 1:14 Notary (1) 5:7 APPEARANCES (1) 1:10 entire (1) 4:16 noted (1) 4:23 approximately (1) 3:19 available (1) 4:18 F O award (1) 4:4 F (1) 5:2 obtained (1) 3:18 facility (1) 4:6 Office (3) 1:14 2:7,13 B February (2) 1:8 5:21 operation (1) 4:5 Ball (1) 4:9 fill (1) 3:17 opportunity (1) 3:15 bar (1) 4:6 final (1) 4:19 order (1) 2:3 blood (1) 5:16 first (1) 3:23 outcome (1) 5:17 Borough (8) 1:16,17,18 2:16,19,22 Flushing (1) 4:7 2:25 3:4 Franchise (2) 1:4 3:8 P Bronx (1) 2:17 Friedman (2) 1:15 2:10 p.m (2) 1:9 4:23 Brooklyn (2) 1:16 2:20 further (1) 5:14 Park (2) 4:8,10 Budget (2) 1:14 2:14 Parks (2) 1:19 3:25 building (1) 4:7 G part (1) 4:19 business (1) 4:10 Good (1) 2:2 parties (1) 5:15 Gounardes (2) 1:16 2:21 persons (1) 3:16 C Group (1) 4:9 Peter (1) 1:12 C (2) 5:2,2 please (2) 3:20,22 calendar (2) 3:23 4:2 H potential (1) 4:8 call (2) 2:4 3:22 Hall (1) 1:7 Present (1) 2:21 Cantor (2) 1:13 2:12 hand (1) 5:20 President (8) 1:16,17,18 2:16,19 Caras (2) 1:17 2:24 Hatch (6) 1:12 2:2,6 3:7 4:11,14 2:22,25 3:4 catering (1) 4:5 heard (1) 3:15 proceeding (1) 4:20 CAVANAGH (2) 5:7,23 hearing (8) 1:3 2:3 3:8,9 4:15,17 proceedings (5) 2:1 3:1 4:1 5:10 Cerron (1) 1:19 4:19,21 5:13 certify (2) 5:9,14 heliport (1) 4:7 Public (5) 1:3 2:3 3:7 4:17 5:8 Charter (1) 3:12 hereunto (1) 5:20 publicly (2) 3:10 4:18 City (3) 3:12,13,24 Clerk (4) 1:20 2:4 3:18,22 I Q closed (1) 4:21 intent (1) 4:3 Queens (3) 1:18 3:2 4:8 come (1) 2:3 interested (1) 5:17 Committee (2) 1:4 3:9 Island (1) 3:5 R Comptroller (2) 1:15 2:9 item (2) 3:23 4:2 R (1) 5:2 concession (4) 1:4 3:8,12 4:4 Reade (1) 1:6 concludes (1) 4:15 J record (2) 4:19 5:12 conducted (1) 3:10 James (1) 1:17 Recreation (1) 3:25 Corona (1) 4:8 related (1) 5:15 Corporation (2) 1:13 2:11 K renovation (1) 4:4 Counsel (2) 1:13 2:11 reported (1) 5:10 COUNTY (1) 5:5 L reporter (1) 4:16 Crystal (1) 4:9 request (1) 3:17 Cushman (2) 1:14 2:15 M response (4) 2:8,18 3:6 4:13 maintenance (1) 4:5 restaurant (1) 4:6 D Management (2) 1:14 2:13 Review (2) 1:4 3:9 DANIELLE (2) 5:7,23 Manhattan (2) 1:17 2:23 Richard (1) 1:15 David (1) 1:19 marriage (1) 5:16 RICHMOND (1) 5:5 day (1) 5:20 matter (3) 4:3 5:11,18 roll (1) 2:4 Franchise and Concession Review Committee Public Hearing February 9, 2015 2 Ruiz (12) 1:20 2:5,7,9,11,13,16,19 1 2:22,25 3:4,24 1 (1) 4:2 Rules (1) 3:12 10007 (1) 1:7 19th (1) 5:20 S set (1) 5:20 2 Sharon (1) 1:13 2:46 (1) 1:9 slip (1) 3:17 2:48 (1) 4:23 snack (1) 4:6 20-year (1) 4:9 speak (2) 3:16 4:15 2015 (2) 1:8 5:21 speaker (1) 3:18 22 (1) 1:6 Spector (1) 1:7 ss (1) 5:4 3 state (3) 3:20 5:4,8 Staten (1) 3:5 4 Stephanie (1) 1:20 Street (1) 1:6 5 sure (1) 3:14 6 T T (2) 5:2,2 7 term (1) 4:9 Terrace (1) 4:10 8 testify (2) 3:20 4:12 Thank (1) 4:21 9 three (1) 3:19 9 (1) 1:8 Time (1) 4:23 today (1) 3:10 today's (1) 4:15 transcript (1) 5:12 true (1) 5:12 U V Velazquez (2) 1:18 3:3 W want (1) 3:14 way (1) 5:17 Welcome (1) 3:7 WHEREOF (1) 5:19 wish (1) 4:11 wishes (1) 4:14 wishing (1) 3:16 within-entitled (1) 5:11 WITNESS (1) 5:19 X x (2) 1:2,5 Y York (7) 1:7,7 3:11,13,24 5:4,9 Z 0 PUBLIC HEARING FRANCHISE AND CONCESSION REVIEW COMMITTEE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2015 @ 2:30 P.M. 22 READE STREET, NEW YORK, NY NOTE: INDIVIDUALS REQUESTING SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS SHOULD CONTACT THE MAYOR’S OFFICE OF CONTRACT SERVICES, 253 BROADWAY, 9TH FL., NEW YORK, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10007 (212) 788-7490, NO LATER THAN SEVEN (7) BUSINESS DAYS PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC HEARING. TDD USERS SHOULD CALL VERIZON RELAY SERVICE. Franchise and Concession Review Committee Joint Public Hearing Monday, February 9, 2015 @ 2:30 P.M. NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION No.
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