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May 17, 2024 RIOC Board’s Mishandling: Impact on Shelton Haynes Investigation “I am confident that CLM, the law firm hired to investigate Shelton Haynes and Gretchen Robinson, reached their conclusions a long time…

May 14, 2024 RIOC May 2024 Board Meeting Highlights & Progress Update Although there was plenty of positive motion forward at the RIOC May 2024 board meeting, we’re still waiting for information on what…

Apr 18, 2024 Strange Flowers: Into the Weeds with RIOC Purchasing Intense questions about RIOC purchasing unsettled recent board meetings. We decided to dig deeper, see what we’d find in the weeds. It’s…

Mar 24, 2024 Ben Fhala Ideas: Revitalizing Tram Operations and Revenue Generation Since joining RIOC’s board last year, Ben Fhala has resisted a status quo that many agree isn’t working. The following are his…

Mar 20, 2024 Ben Fhala has RIOC Rethinking Motorgate Rates, Waiting List RIOC junior board member Ben Fhala’s questioning of Motorgate Rates unsettled assumptions and got managers thinking again. It’s been a rare occurrence,…

Mar 8, 2024 So Much Better It’s Almost Surreal – RIOC’s March 2024 Ops Meeting Set against history, RIOC’s March 2024 Ops Meeting marked a giant step in the agency’s improvements. The Operations Committee, led by Fay…

Mar 5, 2024 Roosevelt Island Revolt: Residents Call for Governance Changes Amid Corporation Chaos Recent turmoil and long-term dysfunction at the state-appointed Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation has locals clamoring for new rules in the East River.…

Feb 28, 2024 With No Governance Committee for 6 Years Now, RIOC’s Missing Head “Board members of each state and local authority, or subsidiary thereof, shall establish a governance committee…” That’s the law, but for the…

Feb 5, 2024 RIOC Board Battles-Old Guard Hammers New Resident Concerns While the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation splashes on a fresh new face, behind the scenes, its old guard reigns as obstructionist as…

Jan 22, 2024 Is It Morning on Roosevelt Island Now? RIOC’s Astonishing Turn Around At least publicly, nobody saw this coming, but this fresh morning on Roosevelt Island is more Wow! than “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is…

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