Sentences with phrase «blasio appointed members»
The Council held a hearing on authorizing a commission, while Mayor de Blasio appointed members to his own panel to review the City Charter.
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The Council included $ 212 million in funding for Fair Fares, a proposal first initiated by the Community Service Society of New York, headed by David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio as well as the Riders Alliance, which is led by John Raskin.
A member of the NYC Panel for Educational Policy appointed by de Blasio was forced to quit last week after voting against the city's plans to close several schools.
De Blasio on Monday signed a City Council bill creating a second commission with members to be appointed by the mayor, Council speaker, public advocate, comptroller and the five borough presidents.
Earlier this year de Blasio appointed Chairwoman Rachel Godsil and five other board members.
Mark - Viverito and de Blasio would jointly appoint members of the new commission on property taxes.
The nine board members, who all were appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, voted Tuesday night to consider a range of possible rent adjustments from a freeze to a 2 % increase for one - year leases beginning on Oct. 1.
Two M.T.A. members appointed by former mayor Michael Bloomberg whose terms have expired and who had been planning to resign to make way for de Blasio's appointees, have agreed to stay until those appointees are confirmed, according to the mayor's office.
A month after he and Queens BP Melinda Katz dismantled the Queens Borough Public Library board of trustees, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has appointed the board's first new member.
De Blasio appointed three new members to the Rent Guidelines Board, replacing the last holdovers from ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg and giving de Blasio complete control of the body.
After all, it is the governor who appoints the majority of MTA board members, even as many residents in the past have blamed Mayor de Blasio.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio scored a rare win against his longtime frenemy Cuomo when the MTA board decided to delay a vote on the governor's $ 1 billion subway station improvement plan after members appointed by de Blasio objected.
The next mayor will have the ability to appoint four new members to the Rent Guidelines Board, which sets rent rates for a million New York City apartments, and De Blasio has announced his intent to select pro-tenant, pro-stabilization members.
De Blasio's aides on Monday warned of chaos in the school system if the mayoral control law is allowed to expire and the city goes back to the old Board of Education system where the mayor appoints two members and the five borough presidents one each.
A month after he and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz dismantled the Queens Borough Public Library board of trustees, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday he has appointed the board's first new member.
The nine board members, who all were appointed by de Blasio, voted this week to consider a range of possible rent adjustments from a freeze to a 2 percent increase for one - year.
The Council included $ 212 million in funding for Fair Fares, a proposal first initiated by the Community Service Society of New York, headed by David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio as well as the Riders Alliance, which is led by John Raskin.
Last month, a three - member commission appointed by Mayor de Blasio recommended that the salaries increase to $ 138,500, but only if so - called «lulu» bonuses of $ 8,000 to $ 25,000 for committee chairmanships were eliminated.
De Blasio would get to name just two of the seven members, with the other five appointed by each of the borough presidents.
De Blasio appointed his panel's first members a day before a scheduled City Council committee hearing on legislation that would create a separate charter revision commission.
«The mayor came forward and joined the issue of affordability with long - term capital support of the subway system together, and I think he appropriately, obviously at that time, focused on the incredible wealth that's available to a select few New Yorkers and really this would be a very modest imposition on them,» David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio and president and CEO of the Community Service Society of New York, who supports the tax, said.
A member of the Panel for Educational Policy appointed by Mayor de Blasio was forced to quit last week after voting against the city's plans to close several schools, The Post has learned.