[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Monroe (VA) transition

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Reuse process restarting
Gov. Kaine has until March 26 to sign the bill creating a new state 
authority that will be in charge of Fort Monroe's future.

BY JIM HODGES
Newport News Daily Press (VA)
March 13 2007

HAMPTON -- John Ishon isn't ready to give up trying to affect Fort 
Monroe's future.

Ishon, chairman of the seven-man Federal Area Redevelopment Authority, 
appointed himself and vice chairman Whiting Chisman to the team that 
will lead the transition to an 18-person committee that will exist after 
Gov. Timothy Kaine signs legislation making it so.

"We've spent two years on this, and a lot of legwork has been done by 
the staff and (authority)," Ishon said Monday after a meeting in which 
he and the rest of the group were briefed on how their roles will change.

The transition team is scheduled to meet with Kaine's staff on Friday in 
Richmond.

Kaine, who introduced the legislation in January, has until March 26 to 
sign it.

The existing authority came into being when Fort Monroe was included on 
a 2005 list of military posts targeted as part of the Base Realignment 
and Closure process. The new authority is a result of the state taking 
control of the post's re-use two years into the procedure.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-78861sy0mar13,0,5310517.story?coll=dp-news-local-final

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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