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Hi! Got back from vacation yesterday, will reply to your email later this week!
Thanks! My talk from 2025 is not up yet but I’ll share it when it is.
Congrats @teon!
And yes feel free to reach out any time. The citymeetings newsletter goes out every 1-2 weeks as well and has a number of CB member subscribers and folks in NYC govt.
Subscribership is about to hit 1K, likely this month.
Today's newsletter is a special edition organizing themes, arguments, and proposals from the commission's hearings with links to testimony.
You can read it here: buttondown.com/citymeetings...
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citymeetings.nyc 🤝 NYC Charter Revision Commision
In an official partnership, you can breezily skim and share Q&A and testimony from every Charter Revision Commission to-date.
Every commission meeting will be published within 24 hours going forward.
Erik Bottcher asks the ED of the Mayor's Office of Food Policy about the feasibility of city-owned grocery stores at today's hearing.
(Clearly asking about Zohran Mamdani's proposal without mentioning his name.)
citymeetings.nyc/city-council...
Thank you!!
Dang it looks so good! Do you have good recipes you can link to? Also curious about the dill fish one.
Oo where was this?
That sounds fun! Will start with an issue just highlighting those meetings.
Re: borough board meetings. I still only do city council because I do not have time and need to focus on funding and/or revenue.
Gale Brewer is awesome for having enabled these efforts (though I know we have many more folks to thank, e.g. @noneck.org). We’re in a better spot transparency-wise because of them.
Tish James and Bill de Blasio also show up at these hearings, which is fun.
16-17 years ago!!
I have access to NYC council hearing recordings for NYC’s purchase of Legistar from Granicus from 2008, and on our Open Data laws from 2009. These were pre-Legistar.
I’ll be doing a history feature in April some time. These are incredible in so many ways.
Subscribe at citymeetings.nyc.
Love it!
But also — why *16* months?
How did it almost get emptied? Did they actually get in?
Whoa. Greg. I'm sorry that's awful.
Brooklyn Botanic Gardens is starting to enter its prime!
Not the unemployment rate, but a ceiling for what could happen —
Commissioner Hendon at NYC’s Department of Veteran Services states that 1 out of 10 working age veterans is employed by the federal government here:
citymeetings.nyc/city-council...
Another citymeetings New York Daily News citation, this time in the opinion section on the Queens casino project --
www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/30/c...
What he said in August at his corp. counsel nomination hearing in August:
1. The city is not a party to that case.
2. But I'd recuse myself anyway.
3. Also, this is a pro-environment case.
citymeetings.nyc/city-council...
What he said in August at his corp. counsel nomination hearing in August:
1. The city is not a party to that case.
2. But I'd recuse myself anyway.
3. Also, this is a pro-environment case.
citymeetings.nyc/city-council...
citymeetings #32 is out!
I trawled ~50 hours of meetings to find discussions regarding changes to federal funding and policy across every prelim budget hearing last week.
You can read it here: buttondown.com/citymeetings...
A special issue of citymeetings #32 goes out at 11 AM Eastern.
I trawled ~50 hours of budget hearings last week and compiled a survey of discussions where changes to federal funding or policy came up at every budget hearing last week.
You can subscribe on citymeetings DOT nyc.
Thanks Jiahao!
Unlimited pastries for DEP's commissioner.
Facebook referred more visitors to citymeetingsnyc than Google last week for the first time and it's because of these statements by Brad Lander shared among union and retiree groups.
citymeetings.nyc/city-council...
Been reworking my speaker identification tooling and sometimes language models will assign incredible roles to people.
Education hearing from yesterday is up now -- the video was made available late last night.
Got caught up in a few things -- but this 10-hour hearing is now up.
I know what you're all thinking: the 10-hour budget hearing for the Committee on Public Safety did not go up last night.
It's because I went to bed before the video was made available, downloaded, and transcribed.
But it'll be up in a bit this morning on citymeetings.nyc.
citymeeting #31 went out a few minutes ago!
Notably --
- I'm talking at School of Data on March 29th.
- I used tools to find federal funding cut discussions from 30 hours of budget hearings.
- Highlights on the Queens Future casino proposal.
Read the issue here: buttondown.com/citymeetings...