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What to watch for this week in New York politics:
We’re stability to watch this week for either or not New York legislators will be called to Albany for a special eventuality directed during flitting compensate increases for lawmakers and, perhaps, flitting other bills in conjunction. There is a line-up of State Assembly committee hearings this week.
This week courtesy will stay on a fallout from a Staten Island grand jury preference not to accuse Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in a genocide of Eric Garner. Protests continued around a weekend after dual really bustling nights of movement on Wednesday and Thursday, a initial dual nights after a preference was announced. Mayor Bill de Blasio continues to travel a formidable line, expressing rather deceptive beating with a grand jury decision, ancillary those who wish to criticism a decision, and vocalization rarely of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and a NYPD in general. De Blasio will continue to face tough questions. Meanwhile, military officers in a few precincts are commencement a commander module of wearing physique cameras to record interactions with civilians and a NYPD continues to pierce brazen on a much-touted retraining of officers that de Blasio, Bratton, and others minute during dual opposite events this past week.
De Blasio continued to travel a aforementioned line during a nationally-televised coming on ABC Sunday morning. The mayor’s Sunday also included “meetings with Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee” and “the Immigration Summit Welcome Reception,” according to his open schedule. The accepting was set to take place during City Hall Sunday evening, with a limit itself on Monday during Gracie Mansion. De Blasio and 20 Democratic mayors from around a nation will be discussing how to best adjust to President Obama’s new executive movement around undocumented immigrants and to plead ways to fuse and pull Congress for immigration reform. More sum below.
Meanwhile, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced he will assemble a grand jury to inspect a genocide of Akai Gurley, an unarmed black male shot and killed by a military officer in a stairwell of a Brooklyn open housing building.
Monday is also set to see a introduction to a City Council of dual bills associated to chokeholds being sponsored by Council Member Rory Lancman.
The City Council is also set to see a introduction of Council Member Danny Dromm’s check to anathema horse-drawn carriages in New York City, legislation being pushed by Mayor de Blasio, as you’ve positively heard.
Comptroller Scott Stringer starts his week with a Google Hangout on FlexTime (details below) and a 7:15 p.m. coming on Al Jazeera America’s Real Money with Ali Velshi.
And a Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (William and Kate) are in a U.S., with many of their outing centered in New York, where they will spend tools of several days and attend in a accumulation of events, including visits to girl organizations and a series of celebrations, announcements, and training opportunities, according to this stately press release. More sum below.
As usual, there’s a good understanding function at the City Council, starting with Monday’s full-body Stated Meeting, and many some-more to be wakeful of as a week gets going…
The run of a week in some-more detail:
Monday
Monday will underline a aforementioned immigration process limit of Democratic mayors horde by Mayor de Blasio during Gracie Mansion. There will also be other applicable meetings among staff members of some of those mayors on Monday. According to a mayor’s open schedule, “On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio will horde a Mayors Immigration Implementation Summit during Gracie Mansion. With Mayors and comparison member from over a dozen cities attending, this limit is a partial of a wider bid by a Coalition United for Immigration Action to coordinate doing of President Obama’s Executive Actions on immigration and strategize on how cities can effectively pull for extensive immigration reform.”
And, “in a evening, a Mayor will attend The Nation’s Institute Gala Dinner Reception in Manhattan.”
Monday during 1 p.m., a Google Hangout around a Comptroller’s office: “Join Working Mother magazine’s Carol Evans (@CarolEvansWM) and Jennifer Owens (@working_mother) and NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer (@scottmstringer) as they pronounce about Right to Request Flex laws and a purpose that open process can play in ancillary stretchable work.”
“With Record Homelessness, Councilmembers and Advocates to Call for Urgent Action on NY-NY IV Supportive Housing Agreement,” according to a press release. “City Council Resolution Will Call on Governor and Mayor to Reach Urgently Needed Deal to Create Housing for Thousands Living with Disabilities and Mental Illness.” There will be a convene during noon during City Hall on Monday featuring “Councilmember Stephen Levin, Chair of a General Welfare Committee, Other Councilmembers, Advocates from a Campaign 4 NY/NY Housing..in support of a fortitude job for a fourth NY-NY Agreement to emanate permanent understanding housing as record homelessness continues to grow.”
Monday’s City Council news will include: a meeting of a Committee on Housing and Buildings to inspect a new check on “Conforming a NYC appetite charge formula to a NYS appetite formula with amendments singular to construction in a city and repealing territory 28-1001.2 in propinquity thereto”; a meeting of a Committee on Finance on a new check relating to “Authorizing an boost in a volume to be spent annually in 10 business alleviation districts” and to examination due land use applications; a standard pre-Stated press contention led by Speaker Mark-Viverito and afterwards a City Council Stated Meeting during 1:30 p.m.
Police Reform Organizing Project – PROP – will reason a assembly to “discuss and plan…collective subsequent stairs to pierce brazen a unconditional military remodel agenda” on Monday evening.
Monday dusk will also see a fifth annual Preston Robert Tisch Award In Civic Leadership, honoring Congressman John Lewis for his lifelong loyalty “to safeguarding tellurian rights, securing polite liberties, and building what he calls “The Beloved Community.””
Council Member Corey Johnson hosts a forum on Bike Safety during 1199 SEIU on Monday evening.
New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV) will host “Guns and Domestic Violence: A Lethal Combination” on Monday. Featured speakers to include: New York State Assemblywoman Amy Paulin; Manhattan Borough boss Gale Brewer; Commissioner, Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence, Rose Pierre-Louis, and others.
On Monday, “The Duchess of Cambridge will lift out dual engagements in New York while The Duke visits Washington. Her Royal Highness will be accompanied by The First Lady of New York City, Chirlane McCray, on a revisit to a internal child growth centre. They will learn about how this organization fosters a healthy growth of children and families by providing high-quality mental health and educational services, that is an emanate strongly upheld by The First Lady. Her Royal Highness will also attend a lunch, hosted by a British Consul General in New York, to applaud a achievements of a successful British village in New York from a culture, arts, liberality and business sectors.
“On Monday evening, Their Royal Highnesses will attend an NBA Basketball diversion to assistance launch a new partnership between a Royal Foundation, United for Wildlife and a NBA.”
Tuesday
Tuesday morning, ABNY will host Police Commissioner Bratton for a breakfast eventuality addressing a commissioner’s “efforts to urge open haven in New York.”
Also on Tuesday morning during The New School’s Center for NYC Affairs, historian Robert Snyder will broach remarks, “Crossing Broadway: How village activists discovered their area from crime,” explaining how one area of New York City emerged “from a crime and spoil of a moment years” by village activists “who crossed secular and secular lines.” This will be followed by a row contention moderated by Michael Powell of a New York Times with Snyder as good as Led Black, writer-blogger, Uptown Collective; Dave Crenshaw, president, Uptown Dreamers Alumni Association; and Victoria Neznansky, arch module officer, YM/YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood.
The “NY Casino preference row needs another assembly before it announces decision,” a Daily News report from final week reads. “The cabinet mulling where to place casinos in New York has motionless to reason another assembly before it announces a final preference after this month. Gaming Facility Location Board members will accommodate in Manhattan on Tuesday morning to serve plead a 16 proposals that have been submitted developers to work casino resorts in New York, officials announced Friday.”
Tuesday’s City Council news includes a meeting of a Committee on Recovery and Resiliency on a new check per “Creation of a Hurricane Sandy village groups and houses of ceremony liberation charge force”; a Committee on Aging will reason an slip hearing on “Providing Support to New York City’s Caregivers”; a Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management will reason an slip hearing per “NYC’s E-Waste Policy: How a City is Ramping Up a Efforts in Light of a 2015 Disposal Ban”; a meeting of a Committee on Housing and Buildings around 3 new bills: “Online announcement of information relating to stop work orders released by a dialect of buildings”; “Reporting mixed dwellings with countless formula violations”; and “Requiring mixed home owners to yield notice to their tenants before to temporarily or henceforth creation building amenities unavailable.”
“On Tuesday 9th Dec The Duke and Duchess will revisit a girl organization to see a work they lift out in partnership with an center city girl growth foundation. Both organisations concentration on programmes and projects that foster certain girl growth and amicable learning. During a visit, The Duke and Duchess will learn about a wide-ranging support services on offer to immature people to assistance them strech their potential, quite by an arts-in-education indication that supports a artistic and egghead growth of a participants.
“The Duke and Duchess will afterwards attend an eventuality celebrating a resources of British talent in a artistic industries formed in New York. The accepting will be in organisation with a UK Government’s GREAT campaign. The Duke will also attend a record themed event, hosted by a New York-headquartered record company, that will move together entrepreneurs from both a UK and a US.
“The final rendezvous of a revisit will be a University of St. Andrews 600th Anniversary Dinner during a Metropolitan Museum of Art. The dusk eventuality will support scholarships and bursaries for students from under-privileged communities, new tyro sports comforts in St Andrews, investment in a university’s medical and scholarship faculties and a lectureship in American Literature during St. Andrews.”
Wednesday
Wednesday’s City Council news will embody a Committee on Governmental Operations holding a corner slip hearing with a Committee on Oversight and Investigations, to evaluate: “the structure and calm of a Mayor’s Management Report”; a joint hearing of a Committee on Contracts, Fire and Criminal Justice Services and a Committee on Women’s Issues to inspect “Ways to Increase a Number of FDNY Female Firefighters”; a Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations will meet jointly with a Subcommittee on Libraries to plead slip of collateral needs and formulation for a NYC open library systems; a meeting of a Committee on Higher Education for an slip conference on “SEEK and College Discovery Programs during CUNY.”
On Wednesday in Albany, both a annual Regional Economic Development Council awards and a State Senate Republican fundraiser. No word nonetheless if a special session could also coincide.
On Wednesday morning, a New York League for Conservation Voters Education Fund will host their “Dig Deep for a Greener New York” process forum addressing “the infrastructure indispensable to enhance organic rubbish recycling and composting,” commencement during 8 a.m. during NYU.
State Senator Adriano Espaillat will reason a open conference on response times and altogether puncture room conditions during New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. during a Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Center.
Wednesday during noon, Director of a New York City Department of City Planning and Chairman of a New York City Planning Commission Carl Weisbrod will attend a lunch eventuality to pronounce on “Planning Opportunities to Reduce Inequality.” The eventuality is sponsored by B’nai B’rith Real Estate.
United Nations NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief in New York will host a row discussion, “The Economic Business Case for Freedom of Religion or Belief” on Wednesday afternoon.
Wednesday dusk will see the premiere of “Vision to Victory: An Education Roadmap for a New Mayor.” The film “tells a story of how New York City parents, youth, teachers and village members assimilated together to make a 2013 mayoral competition an preparation election, pulling all a mayoral possibilities to make a community’s preparation priorities their own.” The screening will be followed by a row contention with girl leaders, educators, relatives and advocates. 6:00 p.m. during NYU Cantor Film Center and presented by NYC Coalition of Educational Justice (CEJ). Panelists will embody Ashley Payano, girl leader, Urban Youth Collaborative; Natasha Capers, coordinator, Coalition for Educational Justice; Councilmember Daniel Dromm, chair of City Council Education Committee; Ben Chapman, preparation correspondent, New York Daily News’ with judge Dr. Pedro Noguera, highbrow of education, New York University.
Thursday
Thursday morning will underline a CBC Breakfast with City Planning Chairman Carl Weisbrod “to plead ground-up extensive formulation for neighborhoods and a department’s renewed purpose in a City’s 10 year collateral strategy.”
The City Council news for Thursday will embody a Committee on Education meeting for an slip hearing on “Diversity in New York City Schools,” as good as on a new check relating to “Requiring a dialect of preparation news annually on swell and efforts toward augmenting farrago within schools, including though not singular to, information within licence schools and special programs,” and to cruise resolutions per “Change a admissions criteria for NYC’s Specialized High Schools,” and “DOE to strictly commend a significance and advantages of propagandize diversity.”
More on a preparation legislation, from Council Member Brad Lander’s office: “A Mar 2014 investigate from a UCLA Civil Rights Project showed that New York State has a many non-diverse open schools in a country. A substantial physique of investigate indicates that secular and mercantile farrago of schools is one of a few preparation reforms that is proven to urge a educational feat and life opportunities of minority and low-income children systemically, and is related to extended advantages for all students.
“This conference will inspect a causes of miss of farrago in City open schools and DOE’s efforts to residence this problem, as good as successful efforts in some schools and districts to grasp larger tyro diversity. The emanate will be examined during a elementary, center propagandize and high propagandize levels.”
The City Council news will also embody a Committee on Finance meeting jointly with a Committee on Small Business for an slip conference per “The Department of Small Business Services’ Neighborhood Development Programs”; a Committee on Community Development will convene jointly with a Committee on Economic Development for an slip conference on “Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development: Structural Reforms of a City’s Workforce Development Systems.”
Mayor de Blasio, First Lady Chirlane McCray, and many others will celebrate a “25th Reunion Reception in respect of a 90th Birthday of a 105th Mayor of a City of New York, Ed Koch,” during Gracie Mansion on Thursday.
Thursday evening, Teach for America and ROADS Charter High School will co-host “Unlocking Potential,” a row contention centered on immature people of tone and a NYPD, and looking during “the difficult relations that exist between a NYPD and low-income communities of color…Launch Event Panel Discussion with: Geraldine Moriba (VP of Diversity and Inclusion during CNN Worldwide), Robert Gangi (Director, Police Reform Organizing Project – PROP), Professor Babe Howell, JD (CUNY School of Law), ROADS Charter High School students, Guest NYPD Officer.
Friday and a weekend
On Saturday, Rev. Al Sharpton is organizing a impetus in Washington, D.C. around rapist probity issues in response to new events such as those in Ferguson, MO, and Staten Island.
On Sunday, George W. Bush will title a Yeshiva University Hanukkah gala: “The closed-press dinner, that outlines a Jewish Festival of Lights, will be hold during a Waldorf-Astoria and outlines a 43rd President’s initial coming during a Yeshiva event. As many as 800 guest are approaching to attend,” according to a Daily News.
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