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NEWS BUSINESS SPORTS Town releases Local pies Yankees information sweeten shut out to help residents farmers Orioles weather a storm markets 5-0 Page A3 Page A8 Page B1 www.GreenwichTime.com | Tuesday, September 23, 2014 | Since 1877 | $1.00 BOARD OF ESTIMATE AND TAXATION Panel OKs harbor Anne Semmes/Staff photo Each year during graduation at Macaulay Honors funds College, Greenwich resident Bill Macaulay, at left with his wife, Linda, congratulates every graduate. Above, from left, are Dean Ann BET also approves Kirschner of Macaulay Honors College; Bill litigation allocation Macaulay; James B. Milliken, chancellor of City University of New York; and graduates Silky Katari and Corina Phan. By Paul Schott The Board of Estimate and Taxation approved key al- MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE locations Monday for harbor management expenses and for litigation settlement related to construction of Hamilton Avenue School. But a unanimous vote for Couple’s endowment the harbor proposal belied board members’ concerns about mat- ters of governance. The $52,000 allocation covers provides a free education some of the operational costs of the harbormaster’s office and funds a projected $12,000 for Westport- based consultant Geoffrey Stead- Greenwich residents fund CUNY program man to help the commission de- velop a harbor management plan. By Anne W. Semmes Steadman has been involved in drafting many harbor plans along Growing up in the Bronx, “Goldstein the Connecticut shore, as well as money was tight for Bill Macau- several reports on waterways for lay and his family. His father’s wanted to the town. long illness imperiled his “We feel he’s the perfect per- chances for attending college. create a son,” said Frank Mazza, chairman A saving grace, the longtime of the Harbor Management Com- Greenwich resident said, was fl agship for mission. “He’s probably the guru that colleges in the City Uni- in the state for harbor manage- versity of New York system at the University ment.” the time were free. Macaulay Backed by First Selectman Peter entered City College in Harlem, to attract Tesei, the commission started earning a B.B.A. degree with working earlier this year. The honors in economics. high-quality development of the harbor man- In 1983, 17 years after gradu- agement plan is its top goal. While ating from City, Macaulay students. those plans are not required by the founded his private equity firm, state, Mazza said they are encour- First Reserve Corp. By 2008, he Students aged by state officials. And such had made the Forbes 400 list. a plan would ostensibly address “I’d become very wealthy,” with top SAT many of the existing ambigui- Macaulay said on a recent after- ties about the management of the noon, slipping away from First scores, the top town’s seven harbors. Reserve’s Greenwich office for In particular, the current lunch. “If I hadn’t gone to City system is hampered by conflict- College, this would not have 5 percent of ing state laws about the harbor happened.” powers given to the Board of Eight years ago, the opportu- high school Selectmen and the harbormaster. nity arose to do for others what The plan would clear up much of City had done for him. CUNY graduating the uncertainty by allowing, for Chancellor Matthew Goldstein instance, the Harbor Manage- came to him to help fully realize classes.” ment Commission to set rules that a vision. would have to be followed by the “He wanted to create a flag- advisers, computer technical harbormaster. ship for the university to attract support. But it needed help. “One of the components, of high-quality students,” Ma- So Bill and Linda Macaulay Contributed photo course, will be that it will de- caulay said. “Students with top in 2006 endowed it with $30 Some 400 Macaulay Honors College students participate in a lineate the authorities of each of SAT scores, the top 5 percent of million, ensuring the program BioBlitz at the New York Botanical Gardens on Sept. 6, an idea the entities — both locally, state high school graduating classes.” could provide for its students generated by MHC faculty to emphasize experiential education and federal,” Tesei told the BET. That flagship, which Goldstein what City College gave Bill Ma- and engage students in scientific discovery and learning. Here, “And we talk about our 10-year created in 2001, had advanced caulay nearly 50 years ago. Dr. Peter Park, from Nyack College, is in the water with two town plan. programs, counseling, special See Greenwich on A4 MHS students in the class of 2017. See Board on A6 ROWLAND: WHAT’S NEXT? Former Gov. John G. Rowland arrives at U.S. ‘Tough’ judge to impose sentence District Court in New Haven By Ken Dixon violations could land Row- contend the latest corrup- to hide from federal elec- in 2005 for land, the disgraced former tion charges will result in tions-disclosure require- sentencing. At John G. Rowland rolled governor, in prison for 57 no more than five years ments, will not be getting left is his wife, the dice, which came up years. in prison, it would still be the kind of 10-month Patty, and at snake eyes. But as sensitive as U.S. substantially more than the prison term he served in right are his A federal jury in New District Judge Janet Bond year and a half federal pros- 2005 for corruption while daughters Haven has now put him Arterton has been in placing ecutors offered Rowland governor. Julianne, front, on track to face one of the corrupt Connecticut politi- earlier for a guilty plea that “Americans will not toler- and Kirsten, state’s toughest judges when cians into the Federal Bu- would have avoided a crimi- ate corrupt conduct in the center. his sentencing comes up in reau of Prisons, it’s unlikely nal trial. electoral process,” First December or January. that Rowland, 57, is destined Either way, Rowland, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mi- Associated Press On face value, the con- to serve more than a few who took $35,000 in politi- chael J. 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