17 Quotes by Susan Tolchin

When this whole controversy over the day laborers broke, the county executive was very troubled by it. He is concerned that there's a feeling of intolerance and he feels that Westchester County is better than that. Now the mayor has to decide if he wants to end the controversy and work with us.

Basically it says we are exempt from local zoning.

It had nothing to do with him being homeless. He was a victim. This had to do with what we believe is gang-related activity.

We can't wait to get it going. It gives us things we need to make sure we can alert the public in a variety of ways with cell phones, text messaging, and tying into our current outbound calling system.

You are basically talking about paying for the rental of the county center and staff time. It's a one-hour ceremony. It is not a party.

We are not commenting any further on this. This has nothing to do with the county.

The passion level was really high coming from the people in the room he commented on the passion. So if you take this as a fact-finding mission ... he heard us. That can only be good.

We're very pleased that the sirens worked this time.

We are very pleased that the money has been placed back in the budget and we can continue to patrol the parkways with no expense to our taxpayers.