The bureaucratic hustle could mean the Council's attempt to expand authority over mayoral appointments gets scuttled.
The commission appointed by Mayor Eric Adams to consider changes to the City Charter voted this week to advance its proposals to the November ballot — another escalation in the ongoing feud between the mayor and City Council as it seeks to reshape the balance of power at City Hall.
Councilmembers gathered with other elected officials and advocates Thursday, outside the Brooklyn Public Library where commissioners were scheduled to meet, to decry the process as rushed and undemocratic. “Being rushed is introducing legislation in a week,” Mayor Adams told reporters on Tuesday in an apparent dig against the Council’s advice and consent legislation.
But Councilmembers have been adamant that recent historical precedent, including an advice and consent referendum for the city’s corporation counsel in 2019, suggests the new mayoral commission’s process is ad hoc and inadequate.
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