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Bill Pushes Return Of Rudy Papers



FYI,

Bill Pushes Return
Of Rudy Papers


By FRANK LOMBARDI
Daily News Staff Writer

bill that would force former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's think tank to return more
than 2,000 boxes of Giuliani administration documents to the city was
introduced in the City Council yesterday.

Some 2,114 boxes of records compiled during his two terms as mayor are in a
warehouse in Queens, in the custody of the nonprofit Rudolph W. Giuliani
Center for Urban Affairs.

They are there under the terms of a controversial agreement reached between
the Giuliani Center and Mayor Bloomberg's administration.

Giuliani and his defenders have argued that the transfer was necessary
because the city has neither the funds nor the archivists to catalogue the
documents speedily and get them ready for public access.

The pact calls for the Giuliani Center to temporarily retain the documents
and, at its own expense, process and copy them and return the originals to
the city.

But critics, including historians and archivists, have said the documents
were improperly removed from city custody at Giuliani's behest.

Pol Behind Push

Among the most vocal of those critics is Councilman Bill Perkins
(D-Manhattan), the deputy majority leader and chairman of the Government
Operations Committee, who introduced the legislation.

If it became law, Perkins' bill would retroactively require the Giuliani
Center to return the records to the city's Department of Records and
Information Services. It also would prohibit any similar transfers.

Giuliani Center President Saul Cohen denounced Perkins' bill yesterday as
"silly and unnecessary." He added that a law designed to retroactively undo
a legal agreement is of dubious legality.

Perkins plans to hold a hearing on the proposed legislation on April 5. To
become law, the bill will need the approval of 26 of the Council's 51
members. It would need 34 votes in the event of a veto by Bloomberg, who
signed off on the agreement.

In other Council action yesterday, 30 members signed on as co-sponsors of a
lead-paint control measure that would undo a law passed in 1999 that critics
had called a landlords' protection act.

That bill would set stricter inspection and remedial requirements for
landlords and eliminate provisions that gave them protection against civil
liability suits.

With a new speaker and 38 new members, sponsors of the lead-paint
legislation said they believe they have the votes to pass it. No date has
been set for hearings.


Original Publication Date: 3/26/02

Here is the link

http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-03-26/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-145592.asp


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