Council Member Julie Menin currently represents New York City Council District 5 in Manhattan which includes: Midtown East, Lenox Hill, Yorkville, Roosevelt Island, the Upper East Side, Carnegie Hill, and Sutton Place. An attorney, civic leader, and former small business owner with over two decades of experience in the public and private sectors, Julie serves as the Chair of the City Council Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection and serves on the following committees: Sanitation, Parks and Recreation, Environmental Protection, Health, Civil Service and Labor, and Children and Youth.
Since starting her tenure with the New York City Council, Julie has passed over 16 bills of which she was the primary sponsor, including the groundbreaking Healthcare Accountability Act. Her policy wins include advancing universal childcare in New York City, easing burdens on small businesses by instituting a one-shop-stop web portal for all city licenses, codifying the right to reproductive health services, and creating an Office of Healthcare Accountability to rein in excessive prices. At the same time, Julie has effectively addressed a full range of constituent issues: sanitation and rat-mitigation concerns, street safety, unlicensed smoke shops, robust capital funding for district parks and schools, access to low-cost internet for NYCHA residents, and more.
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