This term’s New York City Council Committees have dropped
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Key Points:
- New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin appointed committee chair positions to all her opponents in the speaker’s race, including Crystal Hudson as chair of the General Welfare Committee and Amanda Farías as chair of the Women and Gender Equity Committee, as a strategic move to balance power and maintain unity.
- Several opponents received less prominent committees than in previous sessions, such as Amanda Farías losing the majority leader role and Selvena Brooks-Powers losing Transportation and Infrastructure, both now chaired by Menin allies, while some newcomers and others gained influential roles.
- Menin also appointed allies to key committees like Public Safety (Oswald Feliz) and Oversight (Shekar Krishnan), and early supporters like Eric Dinowitz were given Education Committee chairmanship, while
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