MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND SPEAKER QUINN ANNOUNCE 14 MEASURES TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR SMALL BUSINESSES TO INFLUENCE AND COMPLY WITH CITY REGULATIONS

New Initiatives Include a Business Owner’s Bill of Rights, Steps to Help Businesses Avoid Automatic Fines and In-Person Hearings and Other Customer Service-Oriented Actions

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Christine C. Quinn today announced 14 measures to make it easier for the City’s 220,000 small businesses to influence and comply with the City rules governing them.

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“I thank and applaud the New York State Senate for overwhelmingly voting today to provide affordable housing protection to over 11,000 New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS, many of whom are on the verge of eviction. State Senator Tom Duane and Assembly Member Deborah Glick deserve particular praise for skillfully sheparding this bill through the legislature.

“By voting in favor of a 30 percent income contribution cap for New York State’s HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) clients, the legislature is coming to the aid of New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS who currently pay as much as 70 percent of their benefits toward rent, leaving many of them to live on a little over $11 per day.

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“This evening Governor Paterson announced that Lenox Hill Hospital and a group of 4 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) have been awarded New York State HEAL Grants to provide Health Services to the West Side of Manhattan. The Lenox Hill proposal will provide the community with an urgent care center providing 24 hour/7 day per week care to our community.

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Statement from Speaker Quinn:

I want to thank the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for a common sense decision that will make it a harder for companies to drill in the Catskill/Delaware Watershed, the source of most of New York City’s drinking water. The watershed provides clean drinking water to over 8 million New Yorkers. Drilling for natural gas in the watershed using a risky technique known as hydraulic fracturing could have widespread detrimental environmental and health effects for residents.

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New York, NY – Today, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney honored U.S. Army Captains Tejdeep Singh Rattan and Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi at a gathering at City Hall. Captains Rattan and Kalsi are the first Sikh Americans in more than two decades to be accommodated by the U.S. Army to serve on active duty while keeping their beards, turbans, and other articles of their religious faith.

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Lenders, small business leaders, elected officials and government convene to discuss implementation of Second Look program for small business applicants

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New York, April 20, 2010 – City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Finance Committee Chair Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., and Small Business Committee Chair Diana Reyna were joined today by Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, chair of the House Committee on Small Business, representatives of the City’s small business community, the New York Bankers Association, New York Business Development Corporation, New York City Department of Small Business Services Commissioner Robert W.

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Week-Long Volunteer Initiative Will Collect Surveys on Dangerous Intersections from New Yorkers

April 19, 2010, New York – In partnership with AARP New York, Speaker Quinn together with Aging Committee Chair Jessica Lappin, Transportation Committee Chair James Vacca, and Department for the Aging Commissioner Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, kicked off a statewide volunteer initiative to identify and survey New York City’s dangerous intersections.

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I thank and applaud the manager of WAPA and the host of Super Xclusivo for their public statements of apology. Words matter. By apologizing publicly and taking steps to prevent future homophobic language on the air, they have sent a message that bigotry has no place on or off the airwaves. I thank Congresswoman Velasaquez, NYC Council Members Mark-Viverito, Mendez, Dromm and Van Bramer for their leadership on this issue.

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I am truly moved by President Obama’s order to widen medical rights for same-sex partners across America. I thank and applaud him for this moral, principled action. I am comforted to know that if my partner and I should travel in a part of the country where our relationship is not recognized, we will have additional medical rights in the event of an emergency.

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Proposed Food Market Will Create Jobs and Support Local Businesses

New York, April 15th, 2010 – City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Council Members Chin and Thomas White, advocates from the food industry and community leaders today stood together to show their support for the redevelopment of the Fulton Fish Market area as a place to host a brand new market for local businesses and regional foods.

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