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.
Cops had to clear about two dozen unruly agitators from
a City Council committee hearing on police issues Thursday morning after they repeatedly heckled NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and chanted...
«Public assistance is not that much money to take care of the family,» said Lee, a member of the advocacy group VOCAL - NY, prior to
a City Council committee hearing on the issue Monday.
Today, we're devoting the roundup to the living wage legislation, which was debated in
a City Council Committee hearing yesterday.
Not exact matches
At 1 p.m., Brewer is scheduled to testify at NYC
Council Committee on Justice System public
hearing on low wage theft,
Committee Room,
City Hall, Manhattan.
At 10 a.m., the NYC
Committee on Women jointly with the
Committee on Public Safety hold an oversight
hearing on the NYPD's handling of sex crimes investigations,
City Hall,
Council Chambers, Manhattan.
At 9:30 a.m., criminal justice reform advocates and public defenders for #FairFares announce a series of speak - outs across NYC in support of Fair Fares, ahead of the final NYC
Council Transportation
Committee budget
hearing, outside
City Hall R subway stop, Manhattan.
Today, Reinvent Albany, submitted joint testimony with fellow NYC Transparency Working Group member organizations NYPIRG, Citizens Union and Common Cause / NY to the NYC
City Council Technology
Committee oversight
hearing on open data:
Today, Reinvent Albany, submitted joint testimony with fellow NYC Transparency Working Group member organizations NYPIRG, Citizens Union and Common Cause / NY to the NYC
City Council Technology
Committee oversight
hearing on open data: In addition, TWG members BetaNYC and Jessie Braden of Pratt's SAVI provided testimony.
StreetsPAC Executive Director Eric McClure delivered the following testimony at today's
City Council Committee on Transportation oversight
hearing on Vision Zero progress and needs:
The New York
City Council Committee on Public Housing holds an oversight
hearing examining elevator safety in NYCHA housing following the death of Olegario Pabon at Boston Road Plaza,
Council Chambers,
City Hall, Manhattan.
The NYC
Council's transportation
committee held an oversight
hearing today, looking for solutions to the problems with the
city's subway system.
Monday At the
City Council on Monday: — The
Committee on For - Hire Vehicles will meet at 10 a.m. for an oversight
hearing regarding «TLC enforcement practices.»
City Councilmember Ritchie Torres, Chair of the
Council's
Committee on Public Housing, announced that the
Committee would require Olatoye to appear before an oversight
hearing in early December.
The New York
City Council, with the mayor's active help, will soon be livecasting and archiving all of its numerous
committee hearings.
At an oversight
hearing of the
City Council's governmental operations
committee in February 2014, new DOI Commissioner Mark Peters testified that his office found issues of gross nepotism, pressure on staff to engage in political activities, deficient voter rolls, poorly trained poll workers, and inadequate, inefficient, and outdated procedures.
At 11 a.m., during a joint
hearing, members of the NYC
Council's
Committee on Education and
Committee on Health receive testimony about a legislative proposal intended to improve detection of concussions during scholastic football games and practices, and a legislative proposal that would establish a Youth Sports Health and Safety Task Force;
Council Chambers,
City Hall, Manhattan.
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At 10 a.m., the NYC
Council Public Housing
Committee will be holding a preliminary budget
hearing to review the Authority's current and future expenses, revenue, and operations,
Committee Room,
City Hall, Manhattan.
Members of the
City Council's Finance
Committee pressed the de Blasio Administration for more transparency in the proposed $ 77.7 billion budget today, kicking off the first of many
hearings on the preliminary budget.
A lively Milwaukee Common
Council committee hearing over public financing for a new basketball arena revealed a higher price tag for the
city's contribution to the project and new opposition from the community activist group Common Ground.
At a
City Council hearing held by the general welfare and veterans
committees, de Blasio administration representatives said they would meet a previous promise to find housing for all military veterans without.
Educators and parents worked too hard to improve the new school governance law to now see it delayed or not properly implemented, UFT President Michael Mulgrew told a
City Council education
committee hearing on Sept. 23.
Thursday At the
City Council on Thursday, the following
committees will hold preliminary budget
hearings: — Transportation at 9:30 a.m., regarding the MTA — Fire and Emergency Management at noon, regarding Fire / Emergency Medical Service and the Office of Emergency Management — For - Hire Vehicles at 1:30 p.m., regarding the Taxi and Limousine Commission — Transportation and the Capital Budget at 3 p.m., regarding the DOT expense and capital budgets
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has been an outspoken critic of the the 328 - bed facility for the homeless and substance abuse patients, said in a letter to constituents that she and other
City Council members were presenting a resolution to the
City Council's
Committee on General Welfare at a public
hearing at 10:30 a.m Wednesday.
StreetsPAC presented the following testimony earlier this week to the New York
City Council's
Committee on Transportation, at its oversight
hearing on addressing traffic congestion:
Ms. Cumbo told Shola Olatoye, Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of the New York
City Housing Authority, at a
hearing of the
council's public housing
committee that residents in her district are perplexed that so many non-English speaking immigrants are moving into certain developments.
James and Rodriguez have blasted the MTA for skipping Monday's
City Council Transportation
Committee hearing and a Jan. 30 Town Hall meeting in Washington Heights.
«New Yorkers who rely on the transit system are unfortunately being let down by the MTA,» James said at a
City Council transit
committee hearing in Lower Manhattan on Monday.
This past Tuesday, the
City Council's
Committee on Transportation held an oversight
hearing on ways to address traffic congestion, and StreetsPAC was at
City Hall to testify.
On March 1, at perhaps the most important
City Council hearing of the year, just three of the finance
committee's eleven members were present when the session began.
Wednesday afternoon, the
Council's Rules
Committee held a
hearing on legislation that would mandate that legislative and discretionary funding data be available to the public in a machine readable format, and call on the
City Council Speaker to develop a public technology plan for public access to
City Council materials and meetings.
Tuesday's
City Council schedule will include a meeting of the
Committee on Juvenile Justice, jointly with the
Committee on General Welfare and the
Committee on Women's Issues for a preliminary budget
hearing.
Technology
Committee Chair James Vacca and Gibson, the Public Safety Chair, led a
City Council hearing on January 14 to gauge the feasibility of implementing the system in the c
City Council hearing on January 14 to gauge the feasibility of implementing the system in the
citycity.
Thursday's
City Council schedule will include a meeting of the
Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight
hearing; a meeting of the
Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the
Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York
City.»
Also at 11 a.m., Win CEO Christine Quinn and NYC Councilman Stephen Levin hold a press conference ahead of the
Council General Welfare
Committee's
hearing on a package of bills with Living In Communities voucher reforms,
City Hall steps, Manhattan.
Commissioner Daniel Nigro revealed the benchmarks during questioning from
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson during a hearing on diversity in the fire department held by the council's new committee on fire and emergency mana
Council Speaker Corey Johnson during a
hearing on diversity in the fire department held by the
council's new committee on fire and emergency mana
council's new
committee on fire and emergency management.
At 9 a.m., before a 10 a.m. joint
hearing where members of the NYC
Council's
Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services and
Committee on Health will receive testimony about health care in
city jails, New York City Jails Action Coalition supporters and people who received medical treatment while in jail or prison will hold a news conference to criticize Brentwood, Tennessee, subcontractor Corizon Health Inc. and the city Department of Correction, City Hall steps, Manhat
city jails, New York
City Jails Action Coalition supporters and people who received medical treatment while in jail or prison will hold a news conference to criticize Brentwood, Tennessee, subcontractor Corizon Health Inc. and the city Department of Correction, City Hall steps, Manhat
City Jails Action Coalition supporters and people who received medical treatment while in jail or prison will hold a news conference to criticize Brentwood, Tennessee, subcontractor Corizon Health Inc. and the
city Department of Correction, City Hall steps, Manhat
city Department of Correction,
City Hall steps, Manhat
City Hall steps, Manhattan.
At 10 a.m., members of the NYC
Council's
Committee on Governmental Operations hold a preliminary budget
hearing to discuss the mayor's budget proposals for the next fiscal year, and examine spending during the current fiscal year by eight
city agencies, boards, commissions, departments and offices, as well as community boards; Committee Room, City Hall, Manhat
city agencies, boards, commissions, departments and offices, as well as community boards;
Committee Room,
City Hall, Manhat
City Hall, Manhattan.
Also at 9:15 a.m., Airbnb holds a press conference prior to a 10 a.m. NYC
Council Housing and Building
Committee hearing on short term rentals,
City Hall, Manhattan.
Also at 10 a.m., the NYC
Council Transportation
Committee holds a preliminary budget
hearing on transportation,
Council Chambers,
City Hall, Manhattan.
The New York
City Council's Courts and Legal Services
Committee holds a preliminary budget
hearing,
Committee Room,
City Hall, Manhattan.
At 10 a.m., the NYC
Council Immigration and Courts and Legal Services
committees hold an oversight
hearing to evaluate attorney compliances with Padilla v. Kentucky and court obstacles for immigrants in criminal and summons courts,
Council Chambers,
City Hall, Manhattan.
The mayor and Bronx Assemblyman Luis Sepúlveda have called Schulkin's claims baseless and demanded he resign, while Staten Island Councilman Joseph Borelli — co-chairman of Trump's New York campaign — called on the
City Council's Government Operations
Committee to investigate the allegations in its upcoming
hearing on Wednesday morning.
New York
City «dodged a bullet» in avoiding a runoff election, said Douglas Kellner, Democratic co-chair of the New York State Board of Elections, at a Wednesday oversight
hearing of the
City Council's
Committee on Governmental Operations.
Queens
City Council members Daniel Dromm (l.) and Jimmy Van Bramer (r.), both members of the
Council's Progressive Caucus, speak with Melissa Mark - Viverito at a
Council Parks
Committee hearing.
Many members of the
city council support the plan, according to a spokesman for City Councilwoman Sara González, chair of the Juvenile Justice Committee, which organized the hear
city council support the plan, according to a spokesman for
City Councilwoman Sara González, chair of the Juvenile Justice Committee, which organized the hear
City Councilwoman Sara González, chair of the Juvenile Justice
Committee, which organized the
hearing.
«In the
City Council, we do a fair and balanced
hearing,» said Councilman James Sanders (D - Laurelton), chairman of the
Committee on Civil Service and Labor.
The New York
City Council Technology and Government Operations
Committees on Wednesday held a
hearing to consider the «Promise and Perils of Internet Voting» in municipal elections.
At 9:45 a.m., the
Council Committee on Public safety holds a public
hearing on a measure to require the mayor to appoint a department to oversee the coordination of efforts to address quality of life issues in local communities,
Council Chambers,
City Hall, Manhattan.