We Need a Functioning & Competent RIOC

We are asking for all RIOC Board members to be directly elected by residents of Roosevelt Island. We have had too many years of lackadaisical and ineffective management at RIOC. We need better oversight of RIOC.

The current administration is not functioning. 

There are people at RIOC who care and who want to help and who do help.  What we need is senior management that engages with the community. Instead we have senior management who appear reflexively to want to close doors and rebuff the residents. Nowhere was this more shockingly apparent than we saw at the recent board meeting where even a resident RIOC board member was met with hostility and an unwillingness to engage. This can’t be right.

We need a different attitude and approach by senior management at RIOC. It’s time for Roosevelt Island residents to be able to vote for their choice of RIOC Board members. This would give us:

- Better oversight of RIOC to ensure that the interests of the community are kept front and center in an open and transparent way
- The opportunity for so many residents to bring forward their vision of how things could be done for the better service of this community.

More on why we need direct representation:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-YD1ks-Lf_SiAfJ1_5Wtbhg2bmOBJOzos69xZyzNFno/edit?usp=sharing