James Cavanaugh
CEO & President
Battery Park City Authority
James Cavanaugh is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority, a public benefit corporation created by the New York State Legislature to develop and maintain a 92-acre parcel of land located on the southern tip of Manhattan across from the World Trade Center site. Under Mr. Cavanaugh’s leadership the Battery Park City Authority continues to undertake development of its remaining residential and commercial sites, with completion of the master plan expected to take place by 2010. The Authority is the leader in sustainable building design, having recently enhanced its standards for energy use reduction, recycling, green power generation, and other elements of green. Prior to being named President & CEO, Mr. Cavanaugh served as the Authority’s Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Cavanaugh also serves as a member of Governor Paterson’s Minority and Women Owned Business Executive Leadership Council, which is charged with reformulating New York State’s approach to providing opportunity in public contracts for MWBE businesses.
The Battery Park City Authority recently reached an agreement with the School Construction Authority to build New York City’s first green school, which will use 25% less energy than a comparable school, as well as generate solar power on-site. Also under construction is New York’s first residential high rise that will carry a LEED Platinum designation from the United States Green Building Council. BPCA is also planning the first installation of a fuel cell in a residential high rise, in cooperation with the Milstein Organization.
Mr. Cavanaugh joined the Battery Park City Authority in January of 2004 as Chief Operating Officer, and was named President in September of 2005. Prior to joining BPCA he served ten years as Supervisor for the Town of Eastchester, a community of 32,000 people located in Westchester County, New York.
Mr. Cavanaugh served as President of the Westchester Municipal Officials Association. In that capacity he was responsible for coordinating policy initiatives and intergovernmental relations among Westchester’s various city, town and village governments. Mr. Cavanaugh also served as Treasurer, and later President, of the Westchester Putnam Association of Town Supervisors.
Mayor David N. Cicilline
City Hall
Providence City Hall
Phone: (401) 421-7740 · TDD (401) 751-0203
25 Dorrance Street, Providence, RI 02903
Mayor David N. Cicilline was born in the South Side of Providence on Saratoga Street. His family later moved to the Silver Lake section of the city, and then to Narragansett, Rhode Island, where he had his first experience in politics. A leader in sports and civics programs, he graduated high school as president of his class.
At Brown University, Cicilline founded the College Democrats with his classmate, John F. Kennedy Jr. He graduated magna cum laude in 1983 with a degree in Political Science, and went on to earn a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center . He remained in Washington to serve as a staff attorney in the Public Defender Service before returning home to open a practice in criminal defense and civil rights law on historic Federal Hill.
Cicilline began his political life serving four terms as state representative from District 4, on the city's East Side. He earned a reputation as a fierce champion of political reform and gun safety, and his dedication to ethics in government won him Common Cause’s #1 ranking.
In 2002, when the City of Providence was buckling under a $59 million deficit, an archaic administrative infrastructure, and the legacy of decades of corruption, David Cicilline announced his candidacy for Mayor. Campaigning door-to-door across the entire city, he vowed to make city government a catalyst for the city’s renewal instead of a handicap. He pledged to restore public confidence in City Hall and to revitalize the city's neighborhoods.
The message resounded. David Cicilline swept a four-way primary election, finishing 20 points ahead of his closest competitor. He went on to win the general election with an astonishing 84% of the vote. Upon taking the oath of office as the 36th Mayor of the City of Providence, Cicilline immediately went about implementing his five priorities: government integrity, strong neighborhoods, great schools, safe streets, and a dynamic economy.
Since taking office, Mayor Cicilline has produced unprecedented results. “His city is blossoming, in spite of all the damage done to it in the past,” remarked conservative Providence Journal columnist, Edward Achorn.
City government is in the process of a comprehensive transformation. Four out of five union employees now work under new, 21st-century, professional contracts. Innovative tracking technology monitors the efficiency of service delivery in real time. Government downsizing has led to the elimination of 400 salaries, and property tax rates are now at their lowest levels since 1916.
Activity in Providence’s 25 neighborhoods has reawakened. Mayor Cicilline’s vision for a robust after-school system to rival those of wealthy suburban communities is on its way to becoming a reality. The two year-old Arts in the Park neighborhood program is already considered a national model.
The Providence Public Schools are showing steady improvement across the board as a result of fundamental reform. And two independent studies showed Providence Schools transforming into one of the most financially efficient urban districts in New England.
Under Mayor Cicilline’s leadership, Providence saw a double-digit drop in the rate of violent crime for two consecutive years, bucking the trend in other large cities to the north and south. Much of the credit for this goes to an innovative community policing strategy that is forging a strong new partnership between neighbors and law enforcement.
By restoring trust in city government, Mayor Cicilline also ushered in an unprecedented wave of new investment in the city. In Cicilline’s Providence, downtown is both a powerhouse business district and an urbane and exciting place to live. Revitalized neighborhoods are providing affordable, livable, historic, and fashionable settings for growing companies.
David Cicilline has Providence poised to climb new heights. He continues to transform City Hall into a more transparent, efficient, and innovative 21st-century organization. His optimism for his home city is boundless.
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