Sustainable Westchester 2024 Contract: Part V

Sustainable Westchester 2024 Contract: Part V

Part V in a 10-Part Series

DUBLIN, IRELAND (October 24, 2024) — I have been asking New Rochelle officials and councilmembers questions in the hope that they might deliver on their supposed concern that they and Sustainable Westchester have not done enough to engage with the community and, in particular, how to opt-out. Here is another email exchange, this one on the Westchester Power information page being absolutely buried deep within the City of New Rochelle website, the page being incredibly out-of-date, having not been updated for many years and the failure to promote the new Westchester Power contract and opt-out period (and how to opt-out).

I notified city officials on September 10 that it appeared that the City’s Westchester Power page had not been updated since 2017, but the link on the page went to a mailer template from June or September 2019 (so someone updated the link but ignored the outdated information on the page.

The information on the Westchester Power web page was about 7 years out of date and then mailer template was about 5 years out of date.

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SMOKING GUN: New Rochelle City Manager’s Shifting Story on Flowers Park Bid Collapses Under Developer’s Own “Return Everything” Letter

SMOKING GUN: New Rochelle City Manager’s Shifting Story on Flowers Park Bid Collapses Under Developer’s Own “Return Everything” Letter

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (December 5, 2025) — A November 20, 2025 letter from the attorney representing the sole bidder on New Rochelle’s withdrawn Flowers Park redevelopment project directly contradicts City Manager Will Melendez’s latest claim that the city never surrendered the original proposal. The letter, obtained through a

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