TAXATION NO REPRESENTATION: The Battle Hill Neighborhood In White Plains, New York (NY), 10606, Because Mayor Tom Roach Refuses To Set Up Liaisons To Communicate With The Heads Of Neighborhood Associations

NO VOICE: White Plains Does Not Have Wards Or Districts? The Common Council Is elected At Large, Which Means Elected City Wide And Serve City Wide.

NO SEAT AT THE TABLE: Not One Member Of the Common Council Lives In Battle Hill.

CENSORSHIP: Worse yet, White Plains Mayor Tom Roach Refuses To Have Battle Hill Neighborhood Residents Concerns To Be On Publicf Access TV, By Shutting Down The " White Plains Citizens To Be Heard" Broadcast.

JOURNAL NEWS: White Plains 'Citizens to be heard' not broadcast on city's public access cable channel

WHITE PLAINS - It's called "Citizens to be Heard," a half-hour set aside before each regular Common Council meeting for residents to address the council on any topic concerning the city.

To hear them, however, you have to be at City Hall.

While the council meetings are broadcast on the city's public access cable station and streamed on its website, the public's only formal chance to address White Plains public officials is not.

"It's ridiculous," said Carry Kyzivat, a community activist who has been pushing the city to broadcast Citizens to be Heard for almost two years.

"People have a right to be heard, and the city should support that, but they just don't want to do it."

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