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Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Immigration Chair Carlos Menchaca, Council Member Rafael Salamanca And Immigrant Health Advocates Celebrate $1.5 Million in Funding For Immigrant Health Services

August 12, 2016

South Bronx, NY — Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Finance Chair Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, Immigration Chair Carlos Menchaca, and community health organizations, today gathered at Terra Firma, a joint program of the Children’s Health Fund and Montefiore, to announce the City Council’s $1.5 million investment for the Immigrant Health Initiative. This $1.5 million in funding will help support programs to decrease health disparities among foreign born and native New Yorkers by focusing on improving access to healthcare;

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New York City Council Unaccompanied Minors Initiative Continues To Prevent Needless Deportations

August 12, 2016

Public-Private Partnership Which Provides Free Access To An Attorney Has Won 72 Asylum Cases and 47 Children Have Obtained Lawful Permanent Residency

Speaker Mark-Viverito: “We’re living up to our highest ideals by protecting these children”

NEW YORK – New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and City Council Immigration Chair Carlos Menchaca announced today that to date the New York City Council’s unaccompanied minors initiative has won 60 asylum cases and 41children have obtained lawful permanent residency.

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Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Finance Committee Chair Julissa Ferraras-Copeland, Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer and Coucil Member Laurie Cumbo announce nearly $64 million for the City’s cultural institutions

July 21, 2016

BROOKLYN, NY – Today, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Finance Chair Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, Majority Leader Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and over 20 of the city’s renowned cultural institutions today celebrated the New York City Council’s nearly $64 million in capital funding for the city’s finest and renowned cultural institutions, including $8 million for BAM.

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Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and State Senator Adriano Espaillat call on Walgreens to preserve the only full-service supermarket in East Harlem

July 19, 2016

New York, NY – Today, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and State Senator Adriano Espaillat released a letter calling on Walgreens CEO Stefano Pessina to preserve the only self-standing supermarket in East Harlem. The City Fresh Market on East 116th Street is the only supermarket that serves the area and is an affordable option for many residents. The letter stressed that many will be deeply impacted by the lack of food options if it’s forced to close their doors on August 1st.

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Council to vote on legislation requiring reporting on NYPD use of force incidents

July 8, 2016

Today, the City Council will vote on legislation requiring the New York City Police Department to publish reports relating to use of force incidents and deployment of officers engaged in wrong-doing. The Council will also vote on legislation requiring lactation rooms in certain locations providing services to the public. Next, the Council will vote on updates to the New York City Energy Conservation Code.

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Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Finance Committee Chair Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, and Council Member Rafael Salamanca Jr announce $2 million for rehabilitation of Pier 132

July 8, 2016

BRONX – Today, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Council Member Rafael Salamanca Jr, and the New York Restoration Project announced $2 million in capital funding for the East 132nd Street Pier. The funding will support the stabilization of the vacant, derelict site and create the first publicly accessible waterfront site in the Bronx south of East 149th Street. The pier would be the first capital project implemented by NYRP as part of the Haven Project, a transformative open space plan developed collaboratively with the South Bronx community that aims to improve health and well-being at the neighborhood scale.

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Statement by Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito Re: Rent Guidelines Board Decision

June 27, 2016

“I applaud the Rent Guidelines Board for voting to approve a much needed rent freeze on one-year rent stabilized leases. New York City is in the midst of a housing crisis and as we work together with our partners in government to create new affordable housing units, we must also ensure existing rent stabilized homes are protected from unreasonable rent hikes.

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Speaker Mark-Viverito, Finance Committee Chair Julissa Ferreras-Copeland and Council Member Matthieu Eugene Visit Summer Youth Employment Program Training Academy

June 27, 2016

Today, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Finance Committee Chair Julissa-Ferreras-Copeland, and Youth Services Committee Chair Mathieu Eugene visited Wings Academy in the Bronx to meet with young people who will be participating in New York City’s Summer Youth Employment Program.

The Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) gives teenagers and young adults between the ages of 14 and 24 a chance to enter the workforce and start their careers.

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New York City Council To Deploy Staff To Observe Tuesday’s Elections.

June 27, 2016

Monitors Will Observe Elections for Issues or Irregularities

CITY HALL – At the direction of Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, the New York City Council will deploy approximately 20 staff members to several poll sites throughout New York City for Tuesday’s Primary Elections to conduct field oversight activities. The decision to have staff conduct such field oversight comes after numerous issues arose during the Presidential Primary Election in April, including reports of voters unknowingly being removed from voter rolls, poll sites opening late, and malfunctioning voting machines.

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