Multi-media Reports, Notes, and Other Documents

Reports, notes, and other documents relating to the transformation of the West End Library.

• Federation Citizens Association Letter to Adrian Fenty and Vincent Gray Regarding West End Deal

  On July 17, 2008, with a quorum present, the Federation Citizens Association unanimously passed the
  following a serious resolution regarding the West End deal.

• LRP Letter to all Councilmembers via Jack Evans Regarding West End

  Carol Schwartz, Kwame Brown, and Mary Cheh respond to this letter addressed to Jack Evans attached in an email to the entire Council.

• Email Exchange with Kwame Brown Regarding West End

  Email communication with Kwame Brown regarding West End to date ends here.

• Letter to Jack Evans from the Foggy Bottom Association

  The president of the Foggy Bottom Association writes to Councilmember Jack Evans to formally request that he fulfill his July 18th pledge to rescind the West End "emergency" resolution.

• Video: Chris Otten asks the Library Board of Trustees about West End

  Video demonstrating John Hill's response about the West End Library deal.

• Letter to Councilmember Evans from the Tiverton/Square37 Tenants’ Association

  Letter from the Tiverton disputing why their building was prominently used as a significant factor in passing the "emergency resolution" to give West End property rights to private developer EastBanc.

• Video Report: Rally to Save West End Library on July 14, 2007

  Report about the West End Library rally on July 14, 2007.

• Audio Report: Eastbanc, Evans Jeered at ANC Meeting on West End Library

  On July 18, Jack Evans and representatives of Eastbanc were first protested outside and then jeered inside the Foggy Bottom/West End ANC meeting on the proposed sale and demolition of West End Library.

• Email Exchange Between Councilmember Cheh and LRP Regarding West End

  Email discussion between Mary Cheh and the Library Renaissance Project in regards to the West End disposition.

• Video of DC City Council Passing "Emergency Legislation" Giving Public Property Rights to EastBanc

  Video showing 12 of 13 DC Councilmembers voting in favor of granting a private developer, EastBanc, public property that includes a public library, firehouse, and police station.

• Video Report of West End Friends Meeting on July 14, 2007

  Friends of the West End Library hold a public meeting hosting EastBanc, the developer looking to develop the parcel of land that the library currently sits on.

• Square 37 Excess Property Disposition Emergency Approval Resolution of 2007

  Text of the "Emergency resolution" passed by the DC City Council on July 10, 2007 which grants the land rights of a firehouse and library in the West End neighborhood to a private developer.

• Letter to DC Attorney General Linda Singer Regarding West End Library

  Letter penned by Ralph Nader and Robert Weissman to DC's Attorney General Linda Singer requesting answers to serious concerns around the "emergency legislation" granting land rights to public property to a private developer in the West End neighborhood.

• Letter to Councilmember Kwame Brown Regarding West End Emergency Legislation

  Letter to Councilmember Brown urging him to vote against the “Square 37 Excess Property Disposition Emergency Approval Resolution of 2007.”

• Is DC Violating its Own Laws?

  The LEAD Act may be the latest DC Law to be obfuscated by the Mayor and City Council using "Emergency legislation" measures.

• D.C. Tenants' Advocacy Coalition (TENAC) on the West End Deal

  Tenants' Advocacy Coalition (TENAC) urges the City Council to revisit action on Square 37.

• Transcript of DC City Council Public Roundtable Regarding West End Land Deal

  Transcript of the Joint Roundtable of the Economic Development/Government Operations Committees chaired by Councilmembers Brown and Schwartz.

• DC ACLU Letter Asking Council to Limit Emergency Legislation

  Letter from the DC ACLU to DC Council Chairman Vincent Gray in regards to limiting use of 'emergency' legislation.

• 44 Easy Pieces

  On July 10, 2007, the DC City Council ups the ante by discussing and voting on 44 pieces of emergency legislation at the last Council hearing of the summer.

• Memorandum to Chairman Gray to Rescind West End Deal

  A request to agendize a Motion to Reconsider to reconsider PR 17-393, the “Square 37 and 50 Excess Property Disposition Emergency Approval Resolution of 2007”, at the Council’s October 2, 2007 Legislative Meeting.

• Ward Three Democratic Committee Calls For More Public Participation

  Ward Three Dems push for stronger input from the public regarding the sale or transfer of public land to private interests.

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