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Quinn Inches Away From Bloomberg at Her State of the City
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Garth Johnston
Published Feb 16, 2011
Modified Feb 16, 2011
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Yesterday City Council Speaker Christine Quinn gave her State of the City (which you can read here) and the most interesting part of it was how she distanced herself from the increasingly embattled Bloomberg administration. Which makes sense if Quinn is planning to run for mayor herself in 2013—which most people assume she is.
In her speech Quinn spoke out against Bloomberg's plan to cut construction spending by 20% ("That kind of across the board cut comes with serious consequences—and I simply can not support it.") and also made light of the City's massive CityTime scandal. But she didn't run her political patron over completely. She is totally on board for the mayor's pension reform plans.
Comptroller John Liu had our favorite response to Quinn's speech when talking to the Wall Street Journal. He would "tend to agree with the speaker" on the capital budget mainly because "past announcements of similar reductions in capital plans have never materialized." Which is true!
Other things covered in her speech included proposing changes to our parking laws ("We’ll change the law, so areas that receive the highest cleanliness rating for two years in a row will have the option of one less day of alternate side."), a new system to help manage affordable housing units ("It will let us know how many affordable units we have, what program created them, and when their affordable protections run out.") and the expansion of an already-in-pilot program called NYC Business Link to help small business owners work their way through our bureaucracy.
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