New York City Council
Procurement
City Council calls out Adams administration for lacking standardized payment method for meals in shelters
The scrutiny came at an oversight hearing that focused on food procurement for shelters and emergency housing for asylum-seekers
Nonprofits
Grant helps Birch Family Services increase access to digital books and adaptive learning for kids
The funding from City Council Member Farah Louis helped the nonprofit purchase 75 electronic tablets.
New York City
NYC Council grills Adams admin budget director on proposed cuts
The council held a hearing to push back on City Hall’s budget projections.
New York City
City Council members balk at $4.5 million in cuts to supportive housing rental subsidies
The Adams administration defended the proposed reduction as “right-sizing.”
Opinion
Opinion: Human services workers remain unseen and unheard in NYC budget
In the fiscal year 2024 budget, only $40 million was invested into the city’s human services workforce, failing to provide the sector’s call for a 6.5% cost-of-living increase.
Nonprofits
Adrienne Adams calls for pay parity and other support for nonprofits
The New York City Council speaker kicked off a gathering of nonprofit professionals and government leaders to discuss bold new ideas for the sector.
Nonprofits
Real Talk: NYC contract registrations rose 15% after start of Better Contract For New York task force
The increase provides a glimmer of hope for the city’s long standing contracting problems.
Nonprofits
Employers pen letter of opposition to NYC's salary range law
Support for amendments would create loopholes to avoid compliance, advocates say
Andrew Cuomo
Takeaways from the final 2018-19 state budget
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday evening announced a deal on a $168.3 billion state budget. Hours earlier, the spending plan had been in doubt, due to standoffs over such issues as state oversight of yeshivas and the early departure of state lawmakers for Passover, which began on Friday, and for Easter Sunday – which is also the start of the new fiscal year.
New York
Jared Kushner lied to NYC because he could get away with it
The Kushner Cos. filing of false paperwork on rent-regulated units and efforts to expel tenants is a failure of not just the companys integrity, but of state and local law. With the incentive structure of state rent regulations and a two-tiered legal system in which corporations get a slap on the wrist for ripping off the public while the poor go to jail for drug possession, actions like Kushner’s are inevitable.
Eric Adams
Eric Adams calls for full public financing of elections
Saying there’s still too much private money in New York City politics, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is calling for full public financing of elections.
Andrew Cuomo
Cuomo takes on guns, NYCHA and the Percoco verdict
Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined students walking out to protest gun violence. Afterward, he took questions from the press on the conviction of Joseph Percoco, his former senior aide.
Rafael Espinal
An open letter to NYC’s first nightlife mayor
5 suggestions for Ariel Palitz from those responsible for creating her new job.
Mathieu Eugene
How long can each New York City Council member serve?
Breaking down the confusing term limit rules in the New York City Council.
Bill de Blasio
Four takeaways from de Blasio’s State of the City
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio rolled out a plan for revitalizing democracy in his 2018 State of the City address.
Bill de Blasio