County Executive Says Ren Square has Sufficient Public Oversight ROCHESTER, NY (WXXI) - A call for a special County Legislature panel to oversee the Renaissance Square project is a zero according to Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks.

Democrats on the legislature called this week for an eight-member bipartisan panel of county lawmakers that would monitor the financial numbers of the project.

The County Executive says she and Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy are both members of the Main-Clinton Associates Board of Directors. That's the local development corporation that was chartered to run the project.

Brooks says between them, she and the mayor represent every citizen of Monroe County. She says that's plenty of oversight.

Brooks also says the Democratic legislation is partisan politics. She says the county legislature by law doesn't have financial oversight of a public development corporation like Main-Clinton Associates -- much as the legislature doesn't have financial oversight of the Monroe County Water Authority.
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