On Liu's task force, supporters and opponents of the Atlantic Yards Community Benefits Agreement

When I wrote Friday about Comptroller John Liu's Task Force on Public Benefit Agreements, I somehow missed the list of members (as noted in the Observer).

The Observer's Eliot Brown writes:

While the chairs on the task force represent an array of interests, the membership of the broader commission has a lefty bent, with representation from all the major unions on development issues (the Hotel and Motel Trades, SEIU 32BJ, the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, and the Building Trades); affordable housing groups such as the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development; and small business advocates such as lobbyist Richard Lipsky.

Lefty bent? Maybe.

Through an AY lens

I'll point out that the task force contains three advocates for the Atlantic Yards Community Benefits Agreement (CBA): Scott Cantone of Forest City Ratner; Richard Lipsky of the Neighborhood Retail Alliance (and an FCR lobbyist); and Roger Green, the former Assemblyman and head of the DuBois-Bunche Urban Policy Center.

It also contains two clear critics of the agreement: urban planning professor Tom Angotti of Hunter College and Bettina Damiani of Good Jobs New York.

Beyond that, there are several others likely to be supporters of the AY CBA, such as Kevin Doyle of Local 32BJ. There are also several likely to be critics, such as Julia Vitullo-Martin, late of the Manhattan Institute and now of the Regional Plan Association.

Could that mean, when it comes to any evaluation of the AY CBA, gridlock?

The task force

Co-chair	John (Jack) T	Ahern	Central Labor Council
Co-chair	Priscilla	Almodovar	JPMorgan Chase
	Tom	Angotti	Hunter College
	Stuart	Appelbaum	RWDSU / State AFL-CIO
	Eric	Bluestone	The Bluestone Organization
	Carlton	Brown	Full Spectrum Building and Development
	Scott	Cantone	Forest City Ratner Companies
	Lou	Coletti	Building Trades Employers Assoc
	Bettina	Damiani	Good Jobs New York
	Kevin	Doyle	32BJ
	Benjamin	Dulchin	Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD)
	Adam	Friedman	Pratt Center for Community Development
Co-chair	Barry	Gosin	Newmark
	Roger	Green	DuBois-Bunche Urban Policy Center
	Leslie	Himmell	REBNY
	Valery	Jean	Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE)
	Gary	LaBarbera	Building & Construction Trades Council
	Mark	Levine	Herrick Feinstein
	Richard	Lipsky	Neighborhood Retail Alliance
	Nick	Lugo	NYC Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
	Edwin	Lynch	United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
	Timothy	Marshall	Jamaica Business Resource Center
	George	Miranda	Teamsters district council 16
Co-chair	Joyce	Moy	CUNY AAARI
	Pat	Purcell	UFCW 1500
	David	Reiss	Brooklyn Law School
	Cy	Richardson	Housing &Community Development, Ntnl. Urban League
	Matt	Ryan	Jobs with Justice
	Denise	Scott	Local Initiatives Support Corp
	Joseph J.	Sitt	Thor Equities
	Paul	Sonn	NELP
	Julia	Vitullo-Martin	Regional Plan Association (RPA)
	Peter	Ward	Hotel Trades
	Raymond	Yu	Yuco Management