CITY OF RYE MEMORANDUM TO: Honorable Mayor and Council Members FROM: Scott D. Pickup, City Manager SUBJECT: Enclosures - Council Packet DATE: July 12, 2013 Enclosed with this memorandum are the following items: 7-7 Notice regarding a Rye Town Park Commission Meeting to be held on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 beginning at 6:00 p.m. at Rye Town Hall. 7-8 Invitation from Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman regarding a Westchester County Community Forum to be held on Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. at The Riverfront Library in Yonkers. 7-9 Legal Department Update from the Corporation Counsel dated July 12, 2013. 7-10 Notice from Westchester County regarding the 14th Annual Senior Law Day in Westchester to be held on Thursday, October 17, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 7-11 Letter from Robert Hoch, Cablevision Director of Government Affairs, dated July 9, 2013 regarding the re-tiering of New Tang Dynasty New York Channel and pricing reduction. 7-12 Meeting notice for the week of July 15, 2013 is available on the City website www.ryeny.gov under Calendar. Rye Town Park 95 Dearborn Ave. Rye, NY 10580 914 967-0965 RYE TOWN PARK COMMISSION MEETING NOTICE Commission Members Joseph Carvin‐President Douglas French, Mayor‐City of Rye Neil Pagano, Mayor‐Village of Port Chester Paul Rosenberg, Mayor‐Village of Rye Brook Benedict Salanitro, Commissioner Laura Brett, Commissioner DATE & TIME: Tuesday, 7/16/2013 @ 6:00PM PLACE: Rye Town Hall 10 Pearl Street, 3rd Floor Port Chester, NY 10573 Tentative Agenda: 1. Roll Call 2. Pledge of Allegiance 3. Approval of Minutes: 4/15/2013, 6/18/2013 4. Comments from the Public 5. Report from Capital Committee (tentative) 6. Financial & Operations Reports 7. Correspondence 8. Old Business/New Business Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman Invites You to Attend a Westchester County Community Forum Hear from the Attorney General and his senior officials about important issues impacting our community including: • Environmental Protection • Labor Rights • Civil Rights • Health Care • Consumer Fraud & Protection Co-sponsored By: County Executive Robert Astorino, City of Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, City of New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson, City of White Plains Mayor Thomas Roach, Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick, Yonkers City Council Majority Leader Wilson Terrero, Congressmember Eliot Engel, State Senate Majority Coalition Leader Jeffrey D. Klein, State Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, State Senator David Carlucci, State Senator George Latimer, State Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson, Assemblymember Thomas Abinanti, Assemblymember David Buchwald, Assemblymember Sandy Galef, Assemblymember Shelley Mayer, Assemblymember Steven Otis, Assemblymember Amy Paulin, Assemblymember J. Gary Pretlow SAVE THE DATE Free Legal and Financial Advice Thursday October 17, 2013 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Westchester County Center White Plains 14th Annual Senior Law Day in Westchester For Seniors and Their Families More than a dozen workshops on topics such as: • Medicare• Medicare and and the thenew new Affordable Affordable Care Care Act Act• What Happens if I Can’t Manage My Financial Affairs? • Smart• Smart Seniors Seniors Smart Smart Investors Investors – – Don’t Get Scammed• Nuts and Bolts of Financial Planning • EstateDon’t Planning/Elder Get Scammed Law 101 • Wills vs. Trusts • Estate• What Planning/Elder Happens if I Can’t Law 101Manage My Financial• Workshops Affairs? in Spanish . and more . • Should I Use a Will or a Trust? Pro Bono Workshops: Free, 15-minute, one-on-one consultations with elder law attorneys, certified financial planners and geriatric care managers. Sign up for these sessions at Senior Law Day. Pre-Registration: Information on how to sign up will be available right before Labor Day. Presented by: the Westchester Public/Private Partnership for Aging Services, the Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services and the Ninth Judicial District of the New York State Office of Court Administration. Sponsors: Aetna Medicare; AG Epps Financial Group; Amoruso & Amoruso, LLP; The Bristal at White Plains; The Collaborative for Palliative Care; Cuddy & Feder, LLP; Anthony J. DeVito, Ph.D., CFP, NAPFA-registered financial adviser; Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, LLP; Financial Advisory Network; Financial Planning Association of the Greater Hudson Valley; Glassman & Brown, LLP; the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Center for Elder Abuse Prevention at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale; Hyman & Gilbert; Keane & Beane, PC; Laidlaw Firm, attorneys, PLLC; Littman Krooks, LLP; McLaughlin & Zerafa LLP; MetLife Financial Solutions; Law Offices of Valorie Joy Promisel, Esq.; Walsh Amicucci & Pantaleo, LLP. Robert P. Astorino, Westchester County Executive Department of Senior Programs and Services Mae Carpenter, Commissioner ROilERT IIOCII Gov •: R,~1E ST A FFAIRS (91-t) 378-.tS 15 PHOXE (9 1-t) 909 0207 fAX fUJOCIJ 'II C" \llU : \'IS JO:'\.C0\1 July9,2013 The Honorable Douglas french, Mayor City of Rye 1051 Boston Post Road Rye. New York 10580-2996 Re: Rc-tiering of NTD (New T ang Dynasty) New York Channel and Pricing Reduction Dear Mayor French: Please let this letter serve to notice that effective, August 15. 2013, the NTD (New Tang Dynasty) New York Channel will no longer be available in Cablevision·s Chinese package, but will remain available as an a Ia carte service at a reduced price. T he NTD a Ia carte price will be reduced from $9.95 to $4.95. There is no channel change involved. NTD New York Channel will continue to be seen in SO on channel 1151. A digital cable box or CableCard is required. Customers will be notified of the re-ticring through bill messaging. In addition. customers can always find the most CUITent packaging and rate information on Cablevision's consumer website v\oww.optimum.com. As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to call me. Sincerely. Robert Hoch CABLEVISION OF WESTCHESTER Six Executive Plaza, Yonkers. NY 10701 914-378-8960 .