City Council · Tuesday, September 6, 2022 · 32m

The one where the Council unloaded on the DOE over $469M in vanished school budgets — and the lone Republican voted yes

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A 09/06/2022 stated meeting that was almost all ceremony , a rabbi's invocation, birthday songs for Council Member Hanks, a happy birthday to Gail , pivoted into a fierce education-funding fight. Member after member explained their aye on Res 0283-2022, demanding the mayor and chancellor restore $469M in DOE school-budget cuts and account for over $600M of unspent federal stimulus. Speaker Adrienne Adams led; Hanif, Restler, Krishnan and Narcisse piled on the DOE's lack of transparency. Even Joseph Borelli voted yes while pitching vouchers and charter expansion. Int 0179-2022 was laid over.

From the room

“comptroller Landar clearly laid out how the mayor and the chancellor can reverse the $469,000,000”
— Shahana K. Hanif

“I will be submitting something at a later time to chair Joseph to ensure that District 45 is well represented”
— Farah N. Louis

I'd rather be on their side, than treating them as the enemy. So I vote yes on this resolution happily.

“committing to the long work ahead to demanding and ensuring more accountability from the Department of Education”
— Shekar Krishnan

The decisions

01Res 0283-2022Approved

Resolution calling on the Mayor and the Chancellor of the Department of Education (DOE) to immediately reverse the DOE’s reductions to school budgets; calling on the Chancellor to submit updated school budgets to the Panel for Educational Policy reflecting the restoration, as well as an accounting of unspent federal stimulus funds; and calling on the Mayor to promptly utilize any unspent and unallocated federal stimulus or other funds and submit a budget modification to the Council to fully restore the $469 million removed from school budgets by DOE.

02Int 0179-2022Laid over

A Local Law in relation to a report on the role of women and gender non-binary, non-conforming, and intersex workers in nontraditional careers

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Procedure

10:05 a.m.
12:01 p.m.
Standard stated-meeting procedural roll-through, all None — Keith Powers
On the general orders calendar, Intro 179-A was laid over — Adrienne Adams

+6 more procedural steps

The people

On the dais · 10

Ari KaganCharles BarronDarlene Mealy Inna Vernikov James F. Gennaro Joann Ariola Kevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Vickie Paladino

Public testimony: 1 opposed

Practitioners & applicants

Keith Powers · Adrienne Adams · Lincoln Restler · Joseph C. Borelli · Mercedes Narcisse

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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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