Government Alert: City seeks airport input in land swap; Advisory board would give oversight; council speaker hopefuls make plans.(Briefs)(development of World Trade Center site and city airport; term-limits ruling; bills over water filtration plant)

Crain's New York Business, April, 2003

Officials discussing the swap of the World Trade Center site and the city airports are looking at creating an airport advisory review board that would give the city some input in running the airports, even if they were sold to the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. One Bloomberg requirement for any swap is that the city have more say in how the airports are run.

The exact powers and membership of the advisory board are still under discussion. But one official says that negotiators ``are trying to define (the board's) role to give the city the oversight it wants if this deal should go through.'' Under the deal, the city would sell the airports to the Port Authority. In return, the agency would sell the WTC site to the city and make a large back...

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