The one where the Council renamed the federal Voting Rights Act for John Lewis the week he died, then split over the NYP
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Eleven days after John Lewis and C.T. Vivian died, the Council turned its July 28, 2020 virtual stated meeting into a memorial: renaming the federal Voting Rights Advancement Act the 'John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act' (Res 1371) while mourning a deadly summer of gun violence. Speaker Johnson: 'far, far too many people die of gun violence in the five boroughs'; Cornegy: 'society has loaded the bullets into those guns by underemployment.' The post-Floyd reckoning resurfaced as Chaim Deutsch demanded a future amendment to the NYPD diaphragm-chokehold law and joined Kalman Yeger in casting recorded
“I would ask that the clerk please take a roll call vote on all of the items coupled”
— Laurie A. Cumbo (Majority Leader, presiding)
“this bill will, require an education campaign for not just the board of elections”
— Alicka Ampry-Samuel
“I just wanna thank Brad Reed, Sarah Liss, and everyone who worked so hard on on 1945”
— Justin L. Brannan
“a construction worker, died on July 16 working to restore a building facade in Manhattan.”
— Corey D. Johnson
The decisions
10A Local Law in relation to requiring the department of cultural affairs to publish information on COVID-19 reopening plans and resources for art and cultural institutions in New York city
Brought before the committee as Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo's sponsored introduction, with no further substance or vote recorded at this meeting.
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the posting of machine readable executive orders
Int 1091-A, sponsored by Council Member Peter Koo, would require the city to build a searchable, machine-readable compilation of every mayoral executive order from 1974 to the present, flagging which have been amended or superseded , extending the Council's run of online-transparency bills that put city directives online.
Approved By Council — adopted without a recorded per-member roll-call (coupled calendar or voice vote).
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the online publication of unconsolidated local laws
Taken up as a sponsored introduction by committee chair Fernando Cabrera himself, with no additional detail or vote recorded here.
Approved By Council — adopted without a recorded per-member roll-call (coupled calendar or voice vote).
A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the designation of administering offices or agencies
Came before the committee as Council Member Keith Powers's sponsored introduction, with no further substance or vote recorded at this meeting.
Approved By Council — adopted without a recorded per-member roll-call (coupled calendar or voice vote).
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to annual reporting of heat vulnerability and heat-related deaths
Int 1945-A, sponsored by Council Member Justin Brannan, was presented as one of two heat-related measures , covering heat-stress deaths and heat-vulnerability reporting alongside a related cooling measure , with the speaker crediting Council staffer Sarah List for her work on both bills.
Approved By Council — adopted without a recorded per-member roll-call (coupled calendar or voice vote).
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a comprehensive cooling and communication plan
Taken up as a sponsored introduction by Council Member Rafael Salamanca, with no additional detail or vote recorded here.
Approved By Council — adopted without a recorded per-member roll-call (coupled calendar or voice vote).
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to excluding certain cooperatives from the housing portal
Sponsored by Council Member Mark Levine, the bill would carve out an exemption for affordable housing cooperatives , the substantive detail laid out for it at this meeting.
Approved By Council — adopted without a recorded per-member roll-call (coupled calendar or voice vote).
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to encrypting website exchanges or transfers
Int 1154-A would require every website maintained by the City of New York to be encrypted, hardening city agencies and residents against hackers as more activity moves online and cyber-attack risk grows.
Approved By Council — adopted without a recorded per-member roll-call (coupled calendar or voice vote).
Agenda item
Int 1609 would rename the Department of Consumer Affairs as the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, expanding its mandate and folding the Office of Labor Standards and the Division of Paid Care into it as offices, while repealing several outdated or obsolete entities.
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- 10:08 a.m.
- 4:17 p.m.
- Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo apparently dropped from the remote Zoom meeting; Speaker checks whether she was lost before continuing. — Corey D. Johnson
- Meeting moves into discussion of general orders; members are recognized via the Zoom raise-hand function and the sergeant-at-arms runs a countdown clock for each speaker's remarks. — Corey D. Johnson
+8 more procedural steps
The people
Father Kelly · Laurie A. Cumbo · Corey D. Johnson · City Clerk (unnamed) · Daniel Dromm · Peter A. Koo · Kalman Yeger · Mark Gjonaj
The intelligence
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Owner portfolios, open OATH/ECB violations, 311 & DOB permits across every parcel discussed, developer track records, and an “ask this meeting” chat.
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