Fiscal Year 2019 Discretionary Funding Expense Application Filing Period:
Please be advised that all not for profit community based organizations that wish to apply for discretionary funding for FY 2019 must submit a Council Application. The FY 2019 application is LIVE.
Apply for discretionary funding from Tuesday, January 2, 2018 until Tuesday, February 20, 2018.
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12 years of service.
4 years as Speaker of the New York City Council.
Over 700 bills passed in this legislative session.
90% drop in criminal court summonses issued.
644,000 outstanding warrants dismissed.
1300+ Unaccompanied minors screened for immigration & social services.
And more.
Thank you, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito for your progressive leadership at the Council, for making City Hall the People’s House and for fighting for all but especially our most vulnerable New Yorkers.
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Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and they Mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín visited the East Harlem Hurricane Relief Center and met with volunteers and those impacted by Hurricane Maria.
Watch the FULL video of Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the Council’s trip to Puerto Rico to assist in relief efforts and hear directly from impacted communities. #PRseLevanta #PRheritage
We’re so proud to honor our New York City Emergency Management Team who have been in Puerto Rico offering their support, expertise, and help. We were the first City to respond to Puerto Rico after Maria hit, and we’ll continue to do so. Thank you to everyone who attended our Puerto Rico Cultural celebration and congratulation again to all our honorees!
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TPS: Temporary Protected Status
As we prepare to mark Thanksgiving, thousands of our Haitian brothers and sisters now have to worry about being ejected from this country due to this President’s misguided policies. Meanwhile, thousands of Puerto Ricans are still without steady water and power, while others are fleeing to states. The President has made clear that he considers many of them nuisances.
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On November 16, 2017, the Council released the NYC Legistar API, allowing the public to directly access our legislative data.
What is an API?
The Council shares and archives all of our legislative information, including proposed and passed legislation, hearings, and monthly Stated meetings, on our Legislative Research Center, known as Legistar. The New York City Council Legistar system was built by Granicus using their Legistar Legislative Management Suite.
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Meet Jacquelin Vasquez-Suarez, President of the Salinas Municipal Legislature in Puerto Rico. Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Council Member Brad Lander Council Member Helen Rosenthal Council Member Vanessa L. Gibson Carlos Menchaca Jimmy Van Bramer Council Member Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. Council Member I. Daneek Miller Donovan Richards Ydanis Rodriguez joined this local community hero to help get water filters out into Las Mareas, a waterfront community hit hard by Hurrican Maria.
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