01Res 1352-2020Approved
City Council · Tuesday, June 30, 2020 · 2h 59m
The one where the Council cut $1 billion from the NYPD, and got a NO vote from both the left and the right
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COVID had killed more than 21,000 New Yorkers and blown a $9 billion hole in the city's finances, and George Floyd protests filled the streets. The Council adopted its FY2021 budget around a headline $1 billion shift away from the NYPD. Speaker Johnson and the finance team defended a deal that restored youth jobs, social workers, guidance counselors and CUNY ASAP after the Mayor's executive budget had zeroed them out. But the vote fractured in two directions at once: progressives like Reynoso, Rosenthal, Menchaca and presiding Majority Leader Cumbo voted no, calling the cut an accounting illus
From the room
“Bronx Parent Housing Network is about to be funded in this budget, and my brother may or may not be”
— Mark Gjonaj
“The COVID pandemic has not only taken an immense toll on the lives and livelihoods of New Yorkers,”
— Deborah L. Rose
“I believe that the 1,000,000,000 worth of cuts to the NYPD budget are the most that we can achieve”
— Antonio Reynoso
“we saved the jobs of school safety agents, the majority of whom, 80% to be exact, are black women.”
— Robert E. Cornegy, Jr.
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The decisions
1Also in the record
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Citations & precedent
New York Civil Rights Law Section 50-a · Inez D. Barron
New York City Charter (budget adoption provisions) · Laurie A. Cumbo
Procedure
- 10:27 a.m.
- 10:34 a.m.
- Majority Leader Cumbo convenes the recess stated meeting originally of 05/28/2020 being held/resumed; references multiple recess dates (05/28, 06/18). — Laurie A. Cumbo
- Cumbo, presiding as Majority Leader, welcomes members back to the resumed virtual stated meeting; agenda posted online. — Laurie A. Cumbo
+19 more procedural steps
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The people
On the dais · 1
Mathieu Eugene
Practitioners & applicants
Adrienne E. Adams · Chaim M. Deutsch · Francisco P. Moya · Donovan J. Richards · Ydanis A. Rodriguez · Laurie A. Cumbo · Reading Clerk (unnamed) · Corey D. Johnson · Peter A. Koo · Inez D. Barron · +1 more
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