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Is the Trump-Jones Beach agreement legal?
The Trump Organization's deal last
week with the state parks to build the
long-delayed Trump on the Ocean
catering facility at Jones Beach is still
being met with skepticism by Pat
Friedman, president of the Community
League of Garden City South, who told
The Leader - as she got set to call the
state attorney general's office - that
"the deal is illegal."
"How did the plan get to 88,000 square
feet from the original 47,000 square feet
called for in the original state bid?" she
still wanted to know.
She told this newspaper that in 2006
then-Parks Commissioner Bernadette
Castro called for bids to build a boardwalk
restaurant at Jones Beach and got three
bidders, including Steve Carl, who owns
The Carltun, and a husband and wife team.
Mrs. Friedman said Mr. Carl became the
bidder chosen but was a day late in putting
in his bid. She said that acceptance of Mr.
Carl's bid a day late made its acceptance
invalid, and that new competitive bids
should have been offered to the public
once more.
Instead, she said the project lingered for
two years until Mr. Trump partnered with
Mr. Carl and "it became a catering facility.
"How did it go from a bid for a board-walk
restaurant to a catering facility"
twice the size of the original restaurant
bid, Mrs. Friedman asked.
Mr. Trump came up with the catering
facility project in order to get the process
moving "without any competitive bid-ding"
and the state went along with it, she
said. There was no competitive bidding for
a catering facility, and that makes it illegal,
she said.
She said the open competitive bidding
process is supposed to protect against such
arbitrary moves.
The Leader reported in September 2011
that Mrs. Friedman famously said to Mr.
Trump during a rally to build Trump On
The Ocean - weeks after Hurricane Irene
- that "I beat you once...and I'm going to
beat you again."
She was shoulder-to-shoulder with him
after he had thanked her for publicly sup-porting
his run for president.
The Trump Organization's agreement to
build Trump On The Ocean included drop-ping
its insistence to use the 14,202-
square-foot basement for three kitchens
employing over 30. The basement, said a
news release from the state Office of
Parks, Recreation and Historic
Preservation (OPRHP), will be used sole-ly
for storage purposes.
The Trump Organization had agreed to
the new storage basement design in 2008
after two public hearings were held, which
determined that the facility could not build
a basement in a flood zone approximately
four feet above sea level.
But the organization instead sued the
state rather than agree to the new storage
basement design, causing several years of
delays in implementing the new design
until last week, when both the organiza-tion
and the state agreed to drop lawsuits
against each other and Trump agreed to
the storage basement design.
Said Barbara Sabbagh Rowan of
Wantagh, "I don't like the idea of such a
large catering hall on the boardwalk. A
nice restaurant with outdoor seating would
keep in character with the boardwalk and
not overwhelm the area or take away from
the low-key atmosphere."
- Douglas Finlay
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Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | 2012-07-05 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2012 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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