This Week in the New York City Government: June 21, 2024
Mayor Adams
- Mayor Adams Launches City’s First Community Hiring Effort with $1.2 Billion to Connect Underserved New Yorkers with Good-Paying Jobs
- Mayor Adams Announces Release of Health Department Report on Impacts of Social Media
- Mayor Adams Announces City Hall, Municipal Buildings to Be Lit Red, Black, and Green in Honor of Juneteenth
- Mayor Adams’ Statement on President Biden’s Executive Order Providing Work Authorization to Long-Time Undocumented Immigrants
- Mayor Adams, Landmarks Preservation Commission Designate Staten Island’s Frederick Douglass Memorial Park as Individual Landmark
- Adams Administration Releases Competitive RFP to Reduce Asylum Seeker Costs
- Mayor Adams’ Statement on Rent Guidelines Board Vote
- Mayor Adams Announces Johnny Celestin as Executive Director of Mayor’s Office of Nonprofit Services
City Council
- Speaker Adams Calls for Charter Revision Commission to Offer Thoughtful Proposals for 2025 General Election, Allow Voters to Decide Whether to Expand Advice and Consent in 2024
- NYC Council Votes to Strengthen Residential Building Safety by Establishing Risk-Based Structural Inspection System
- NYC Council, Unions, Parents, Early Childhood Education Providers, and Advocates Call on Mayor to Prioritize Early Childhood Education Investments in City Budget
- Statement from Speaker Adams on the Rent Guidelines Board’s Final Vote
- Statement from Speaker Adams on New Report Showing Expansion of Fair Fares Eligibility Advances Racial Equity in City’s Subsidies of Public Transit
- Statement from Speaker Adams Calling for the Rent Guidelines Board to Avoid Unreasonable Rent Increases for City’s Nearly One Million Rent-Stabilized Tenants
Comptroller Lander
- NYPD’s ShotSpotter Gunshot-Detection System Overwhelmingly Sends Officers to Locations Where No Confirmed Shooting Occurred, New Audit Uncovers
- Statement from NYC Comptroller Brad Lander on Competitive RFPs for Asylum Seeker Services
- Testimony of Khalil Sulker, Strategic Organizer for Community Safety and Restorative Justice, Before the Board of Corrections Hearing on Proposed Restrictive Housing Rules
