RIOC Operations Committee Meeting Thursday February 7 - Update On Various Roosevelt Island Projects And Closed Session To Discuss Contract Negotiations With Poma On Tram Delay

Image Of September 2010 RIOC Operations Committee Meeting

 Received the following message from the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC):

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a meeting of the Operations Advisory Committee of the RIOC Board of Directors will be held on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. at the RIOC administrative office, 591 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, New York.
The Committee will:
1. Receive an update on Motorgate Lighting Project; 
2. Discuss Information Technology Projects; 
3. Discuss Roosevelt Island ferry service; 
4. Discuss electric car charging stations;
5. Receive an update on Red bus service and schedule; 
6. Receive an update on Tram Project; 
7. Receive an update on Streetline project; and 
8. Discuss RIOC Board emails.

A subsequent message received from RIOC CFO Steve Chironis advised that Item 6, an update on the Tram Project, may be held in a closed session, meaning that it will not be open to the public. From Mr. Chironis:

The reason why I have requested a closed session to discuss the Tram update with the Ops. Committee is in order to discuss certain business negotiations in progress with POMA.

The business negotiations with POMA probably refers to a discussion on the damages to be paid, or not, by POMA for the nearly 2 month delay from the scheduled late August/early September Tram opening to it's actual November 30 return to service. During the October 2010 RIOC Board of Directors meeting, it was stated

... $15 thousand in liquidated damages are incurred by POMA every day the Tram is out of service from the early September date that the Tram was originally scheduled to be ready for service....

An audio webcast of the Operations Committee Public Session will be available a few days after the meeting.

Also, the February 23 RIOC Board Meeting has been cancelled.