This Week in the New York City Government: February 7, 2025

Mayor Adams

• Mayor Adams Announces $15 Million Investment to Connect 1,500 Justice-Involved and Impacted New Yorkers to Job Opportunities
• Mayor Adams, SBS Commissioner Gross Celebrate Small Businesses Saving Over $50 Million in Fines and Fees Since Start of Administration
• Mayor Adams Announces $2 Million Investment to Expand “Jobs NYC” Initiative, Delivering job Opportunities and Trainings to Economically-Disadvantaged Communities
• Mayor Adams Delivers Testimony to New York State Senate Local Government/General Government, Finance, and New York State Assembly Ways and Means Committee
• Mayor Adams, Governor Hochul, and United Nations Development Corporation Announce $500 Million Development Plan for United Nations Plaza That Will Help Create More Than 1,800 Jobs
• Mayor Adams Kicks off “Jobs Week” by Releasing Comprehensive Strategy to Revitalize and Reimagine Commercial Office Space, Create Jobs
• Proclamation of Election: Fifty-First Council District
• Mayor Adams, NYCEDC Release First-of-Its-Kind Report to Secure New York City as Global Leader in Applied Artificial Intelligence

City Council

• Speaker Adrienne Adams Convenes Maternal Health Steering Committee to Urgently Confront Maternal Mortality Crisis in New York City
• Speaker Adrienne Adams and Finance Chair Justin Brannan Offer Testimony on Fiscal Year 2026 State Budget at Joint NYS Senate & Assembly Hearing on Local Government

Comptroller Lander

• New Comptroller Tool Demonstrates How Trump’s Funding Freezes Could Impact NYC’s Human Services
• 9-out-10 Human Service Contracts Arrive Late to Comptroller for Review
• Comptroller Lander Declines to Register ShotSpotter Contract Renewal
• Testimony of NYC Comptroller Lander at the New York Senate Finance & Assembly Ways and Means Committees Joint Hearing on the Proposed 2025-2026 New York State Executive Budget