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May 12, 2006

Community boards to Ratner: Stop your fibbin’

Brooklyn Papers
By Gersh Kuntzman

Rejected!

Three central Brooklyn community boards are demanding that Bruce Ratner stop claiming the boards participated in a “community benefits agreement” between the developer and eight local groups.

In a mass mailing to several hundred thousand homes last weekend, Ratner claimed that Community Boards 2, 6, and 8 “served as advisors in crafting the CBA.” Says him.

“This statement overstates our participation,” the chairs of the three boards — Shirley McRae, Jerry Armer and Robert Matthews — wrote to Ratner last week.

“We were invited to play a limited role that ended months before … we were barred from attending the working sessions [for the CBA],” the letter continued

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Posted by lumi at May 12, 2006 6:06 AM