Lancaster's Tenure at the DOB is History
Patricia Lancaster, the recently embattled Commissioner of the Department of Buildings, has resigned, according to City Room. Mayor Bloomberg announced the resignation and Lancaster released the following statement: Today I submitted my resignation, which Mayor Bloomberg accepted. It has been an honor serving in his administration and I thank the Mayor for this opportunity. After…
Patricia Lancaster, the recently embattled Commissioner of the Department of Buildings, has resigned, according to City Room. Mayor Bloomberg announced the resignation and Lancaster released the following statement:
Today I submitted my resignation, which Mayor Bloomberg accepted. It has been an honor serving in his administration and I thank the Mayor for this opportunity. After six years in public service, I made this decision because I felt it was time to return to the private sector. I am proud of the groundbreaking work the department has done during my tenure to root out corruption, increase transparency, overhaul the building code and increase safety for workers and the public alike. My message today to the talented and capable staff at the Department of Buildings is to keep up the hard work: you’ve made so much important progress. It has been my distinct pleasure working with you.
It’s unclear at this time who Lancaster’s replacement will be.
Bloomberg’s Buildings Chief Resigns [City Room]
2.15 PM;
I think you need to get out more on the weekends.
Benson
Hopefully they’ll hire someone with a more up-to-date hair style…male or female
Let her be the fall-gal while Bloomie and his budget don’t fund the dept for enough staffing smell like roses.
Got to admit he is smart (while his admirers wear rose colored glasses).
Wow–absolutely no humility or acceptance of responsibility. Absolutely fucking disgusting.
Great!
Is that any sort of justice?
People have died and others lives have been, forever changed by her willful negligence.
She, along with her boss (Mayor Bloomberg) should be prosecuted for there crimes.
Letting her resign is just another joke on the tax payers.
Bloomberg orchestrated this to cover up for his own complicity in allowing the continued violations of the Building code and the law. All for the sake of the real estate transfer taxes that were generated to keep the City’s books in the black for the last 5 or so years.
Disgusted!
Thanks for playing, Pat. Enjoy the home game and a year’s supply of Turtle Wax. Next crony, please.
not an endorsement or defense of her, but would be unfair to note how grossly understaffed DOB has grown over the past 5 years. little realistic staffing adjustments made to keep pace with the boom in construction.
“increase safety for workers and the public alike…talented and capable staff…keep up the hard work…you’ve made so much important progress…”
Laughable.
http://nyc.gov/html/dob/html/home/home.shtml
that is her and bloobergs legacy