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By Annie McDonough

An active game of musical chairs in the City Council ended on Thursday, with changes in store for nearly a dozen committee chair positions for the 2024-2025 session.

The full list of committee membership, which was approved by the rules committee on Thursday morning, is expected to later be approved by the full council in the afternoon. 

The list of committee membership confirmed City & State’s earlier reporting that several of the twelve City Council members who voted against adopting the budget last year will lose their positions as committee chairs – including Council Member Chi Ossé, who previously chaired the Committee on Cultural Affairs, and Council Member Tiffany Cabán, who previously chaired the Committee on Women and Gender Equity. Ossé and Cabán were not given any other committees to chair.

And changes are also in store for Council Members Shahana Hanif, Sandy Nurse and Alexa Avilés, who each voted against the budget last year. Hanif will be removed as chair of the Committee on Immigration. While she won’t chair another committee, she will co-chair a Taskforce to Combat Hate. Nurse will be replaced as chair of the Committee on Sanitation by Council Member Shaun Abreu. But it’s not all bad news for Nurse; she will be named chair of the Committee on Criminal Justice. And Avilés, who previously chaired the public housing committee, will now chair the Committee on Immigration. Meanwhile, Council Member Carlina Rivera, the previous chair of the criminal justice committee, will chair the Committee on Cultural Affairs, taking over for Ossé.