Mayors Swan Song Sings A School Song

He then offered a virtual flood of proposals to improve the system. Among the most dramatic is the creation of a sixth school day for almost 95,000 city school students starting next month. Depending on religious observances the classes would be held on a Saturday or Sunday. The day will concentrate on the teaching of math, science and English.
Giuliani proposed a $31.5 million plan to create mini-libraries in each of the citys 21,000 public school classrooms for grades K to 8.
In addition he announced an agreement with Schools Chancellor Harold Levy to create in-school suspension centers that would be used for up to 45,000 disruptive and violent students. He also proposed adding $100 million to renovate athletic fields for 52 public high schools.
For Queens, the mayor announced plans to spend $30 million for a new olympic-size indoor swimming pool and ice skating rink in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The pool will be the replacement for the Gertrude Ederle Pool that was located in the old 1939 Worlds Fair Aquacade in the park. It was demolished three years ago.
The ice rink will replace the existing Worlds Fair ice skating rink, also a remnant of the 39 fair. The rink will be moved out of its location in the New York City Building when the new rink is built, expected to be within two years.
The site of the old rink will be used for the expansion of the Queens Museum of Art which currently shares the other half of the New York City Building.
Giuliani, the citys 107th mayor, has 355 days left in his administration. He delivered the two-hour marathon speech without notes or teleprompters and used various props and projections on a large screen above the City Council chamber.
Present in the hall were many of those who might succeed him as mayor next year. Among them were two from Queens, Council Speaker Peter Vallone of Astoria and City Comptroller Alan Hevesi of Forest Hills.