[passcoalition] Re: Update, Matt

  • From: "Maria Hansen" <mhansen1@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <passcoalition@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:28:40 -0500

Karen,
I, for one, am a bit skeptical.  Working with Matt may be fine but having him 
be the lead or point person on our side may not be the best thing for us.
It may be a bad precedent to have the Mayor's Office for People With 
Disabilities be our spokesperson.  We do not know who the Commissioner will be 
under the next administration and Matt has serious health problems.  
I think that we should diplomatically work with him but retain our position 
which we have been working hard to establish with DOT.  PASS should take the 
lead and we welcome Matt's support.  
Maria


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Karen Gourgey 
  To: passcoalition@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 10:10 AM
  Subject: [passcoalition] Update, Matt


  Hi All,

   

  Got a call from Commissioner Sapolin yesterday.  He is anxious to move 
forward with adapting the prioritization tool.  Also, he asked pretty directly 
that we work with him and that we and his office approach DOT as a united 
front.  He has asked for a meeting next Wednesday with me and Gene to   work 
out the tool and then strategize on a way forward.  I also received the famous 
list of aps requests that DOT has.  They sent it to Matt, and then he sent it 
to me.  (and, I can't send it out till Monday due to a network outage at Baruch 
today.) Matt said in our conversation that he's committed to moving on the 
other issues we have, but that he wants to get a little traction on the APS's 
first, and he asks us to try this strategy with him.  I told him I for one 
would be willing to try this.  I think his idea is to present some places for 
DOT to start and just keep feeding them direction  .      

  So, are you all willing to have us try to work with him?    He seems really 
to want to try and seems to be asking us to give his way a chance.  Please let 
me know what you think  Also, that meeting is 2:00, possibly running till 4:00. 
 Does anyone have an interest in coming?  

   

  Thanks and talk soon.

   

  Karen

   

   

  Karen

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