AFC Testifies on Diversity in New York City Schools, December 7, 2017 AFC testified before the New
York City Council Committee on Education on diversity and inclusion in City schools.
AFC Testifies on School Safety and Efforts to Improve School Climate, November 21, 2017 AFC testified before the New
York City Council Committee on Public Safety regarding the NYPD's role in school discipline and matters of mental health.
Read testimonies we submitted to the New
York City Council Committee on Education in support of Gender Sexuality Alliances (GSAs)[PDF] and with recommendations for addressing bullying [PDF] in New York City schools.
Richard Farkas, vice president for junior high and intermediate schools, testified before the New
York City Council Committee on Education.
UFT Vice President for Education Evelyn DeJesus testified before the New
York City Council Committee on Education regarding the FY 2016 preliminary budget, mayor's FY ’15 preliminary management report and agency oversight hearings.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew testified before the New
York City Council Committee on Education.
The New
York City Council Committee on Transportation held a hearing Monday to discuss sources of, and solutions to, traffic congestion in the city.
UFT Vice President for Special Education Carmen Alvarez testified before the New
York City Council Committee on Education regarding the FY2018 education expense plan.
Vice President for Non-Department of Education Members Anne Goldman testified before the New
York City Council Committee on General Welfare and Committee on Women's Issues regarding the Administration for Children's Services fiscal year 2014 - 15 budget.
NYCHA General Manager Vito Mustaciuolo appears before the New
York City Council Committee on Finance, Public Housing and Subcommittee on Capital Budget on Wednesday.
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.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew testified before the New
York City Council Committees on Education and Finance regarding the FY 2017 city executive budget.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew testified before the New
York City Council Committees on Finance and Education regarding the FY 2017 city education expense budget.
The UFT submitted testimony to the New
York City Council Committees on Education and Finance regarding the 2014 - 15 education expense budget.
UFT Vice President for Middle Schools Richard Mantell testified before the New
York City Council Committees on Education and Finance regarding the 2014 - 15 education capital budget.
AFC Testifies on School Planning and Siting for New Capacity, February 28, 2017 AFC testified before the New
York City Council Committees on Education and Finance in support of proposed legislation that would require the Department of Education to report information on school applications, offers of admission, enrollment, and school seats available.
(Bloomberg)-- Two New
York City Council committees approved a zoning change that would clear the way for what developers say will be the first primarily office project to be built in Brooklyn in more than a generation...
Not exact matches
Ritchie Torres, who chairs a
city council committee on public housing, said at the press conference that there was a direct link between the falsification of permits and the decline in affordable housing in New
York.
New
York would be the first major
city in the U.S. to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections under a bill before a City Council commit
city in the U.S. to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections under a bill before a
City Council commit
City Council committee.
The New
York City Council Health Committee voted unanimously to ban the use of exotic animals in entertainment, approving a bill that is expected to come to a full council vote nex
Council Health
Committee voted unanimously to ban the use of exotic animals in entertainment, approving a bill that is expected to come to a full
council vote nex
council vote next week.
A New
York City Council staffer accused Bronx Councilman Andy King of making unwelcome advances on her, including a request that she wear a «beautiful gown» to a fundraising event, an ethics
committee revealed as they continue to investigate the complaint filed in December.
He chairs the
City Council's
Committee on Parks and Recreation, where is pushing for greater equity for parks in New
York's low - and moderate - income neighborhoods.
NY1's The Call show is following news today that ahead of the state Democratic Party convention in Saratoga Springs, Governor Cuomo nominates Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown as the new chairman of the state Democratic
Committee and former New
York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn as vice-chair.
Corey is also a Director on the Hudson Yards Development Corporation, a Member of the Hudson Yards Community Advisory
Committee, a Member of the Moynihan Station Community Advisory
Committee, a Member of the Javits Center Community Advisory
Committee, a Member of the Hudson River Park Strategic Planning Task Force, a Member of the Friends of the Hudson River Park Trusts Neighborhood Improvement District Steering
Committee, a Board Member of Save Chelsea, a Member of the
Council of Chelsea Block Associations, a Member of the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club, a Member of the Stonewall Democratic Club of New
York City, and a Member of the 100/200 West 15th Street Block Association.
Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American
Council of Engineering Companies of New
York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens
Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry
Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New
York, League of Women Voters of the
City of NY, League of Women Voters of New
York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New
York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS
Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action
Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's
City Club.
Maya Wiley, Counsel to the Mayor Before the Governmental Operations and Technology
Committees New
York City Council June 9, 2014 Good afternoon.
The New
York City Council, with the mayor's active help, will soon be livecasting and archiving all of its numerous
committee hearings.
Sen. John DeFrancisco, whose campaign urged Cuomo to «man up» was criticized by former New
York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, now a state Democratic
Committee leader and an ally of the governor.
Both the Business
Council and the Partnership for New
York City are affiliated with The
Committee to Save New
York, a coalition of private - sector unions, real - estate organizations and business groups that have backed Cuomo's fiscal agenda.
«The moratorium will allow time for such analysis to be commenced, analysis that we are confident will affirm absolutely our contention that hydraulic fracturing should never be done within New
York City's upstate unfiltered water supply watershed,»
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Environmental
Committee Chair James Gennaro said in a joint statement.
Hudson Square moved a step closer today to getting more new housing when two
City Council committees approved a controversial proposal by the property arm of Trinity Church to rezone the Lower Manhattan neighborhood, the New
York Observer reported.
Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, chairwoman of the
City Council's Public Safety
Committee; Assemblyman Victor Pichardo; State Senator Gustavo Rivera; Donna Lieberman of the New
York Civil Liberties Union; also spoke in support of the assemblyman.
Several trade associations and unions associated with construction made large donations to governor's campaign
committee, including $ 25,000 checks from the New
York City Council of Carpenters and New
York State Laborers, $ 12,500 from the Building Trades Employers Association and $ 5,000 from the Associated General Contractors.
She has served on many executive
committees including the American Association of School Administrators, the New
York State
Council for School Superintendents, the Association of Small
City School Districts, and the New Standards Project, a national initiative that launched the transformation to standards - based instruction, a concept that remains the framework for teaching and learning across the nation.
Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, chairman of the Transportation
Committee, sent a letter to Trump on Monday asking him to take his transition business out of New
York City to ease traffic congestion in Midtown Manhattan.The
Council also launched a petition calling on the Trump administration repay the NYPD for safeguarding his family and his buildings.
10:30 a.m. the
Committee on Rules, Privileges and Elections will submits the names of three people to the
City Council: Shampa Chanda, a resident of Queens, for appointment as a member of the New
York City Board of Standards and Appeals, Helen Arteaga as a
Council candidate for designation and subsequent appointment by the Mayor to the New
York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Board of Directors, and Arva R. Rice, candidate for re-appointment by the
Council to the New
York City Equal Employment Practices Commission.
In her recommendations, the former Chair of the New
York City Council Land Use
Committee -LSB-...]
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:
In her recommendations, the former Chair of the New
York City Council Land Use
Committee (2002 - 09) cited several concerns with the proposals, namely the impermanence of senior affordable housing, the effect of eliminating parking for residents in a transit desert like Queens, the scores of extensive contextual rezonings previously issued throughout the five boroughs, and the insufficiencies in skilled labor commitments.
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.
Shola Olatoye, the head of the New
York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), testified before the city council's Public Housing Committee in early Decem
City Housing Authority (NYCHA), testified before the
city council's Public Housing Committee in early Decem
city council's Public Housing
Committee in early December.
Our Bronx Councilman Jimmy Vacca who represents the 34
Council District was today appoint Deputy Leader of the New
York City Council and Chairman of the
Committee on Technology.
Last Saturday, local small business owner, John Cerini declared his candidacy for New
York City Council at the Bronx Republican County
Committee's Grand Opening of its field office open house event in Pelham Bay.
So insists a collective of elected officials, including
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson,
City Council Immigration
Committee Chair Carlos Menchaca, Public Advocate Letitia James, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and numerous other Councilmembers, who issued a letter to New
York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, urging her to ban U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from New
York State courts.
City Councilmember Mark Treyger (D - Coney Island - Gravesend - Bensonhurst), chairman of the
Council's Education
Committee, said he is pleased with Mayor Bill de Blasio's choice for New
York City schools chancellor, Richard Carranza.
The
City Council's general welfare
committee voted unanimously to pass a resolution this morning calling on the state Assembly and Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo to change state budget language to allow New
York City to use state funds to pay for rental subsidy programs for the homeless.
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.»
There shall be district
committees for each of the following political districts within the County of New
York: Congress, State Senate, Assembly,
City Council and Civil Court (where the District is smaller than the County).
«At this stage, there is an entire host of outstanding questions and legal concerns surrounding this project that have not been answered to the satisfaction of anyone, including oversight and expert bodies such as: the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Citizens Advisory
Committee of the New
York - New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program and the Westchester Municipal Officials Association, not to mention members of the State Legislature and the New
York City Council,» Perkins writes.
The Municipal Labor
Committee, Make the Road New
York, the Coalition for the Homeless, New
York Communities for Change, the Alliance for Quality Education, the New
York City Central Labor
Council, the UFT, Citizen Action and NYSUT.