From NY1:It promises to be one of the most closely-watched government meetings in recent history: a City Council hearing on the mayor's botched snow cleanup that's scheduled for Monday. The storm hit all corners of the city. And members are eager to sound off against Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his administration.
"This will be one of the best attended and probably longest hearings we've ever held in New York City Council history," said City Councilman Peter Vallone Junior. "I am expecting the Fourth of July of City Council hearings.
The Council announced Tuesday that additional public hearings on the storm will be held throughout the city. But before those get underway, some Council members are coming up with new legislation to address the snow problems and the apparent chain-of-command breakdown at City Hall as the storm approached.
"One of the things we are looking at right now is perhaps requiring that if the mayor goes out of town for any length of time that he notify, maybe the city clerk, and he appoint someone who has to be in charge and has to be here," Vallone Jr. said.
It's unclear where the mayor was on December 25, the day before the blizzard began. In an interview Monday with NY1's "Inside City Hall," Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson would say only that the mayor was in constant touch with his team.
"Where the mayor is or isn't is not important," said Wolfson.
Meanwhile, City Councilman Jumaane Williams is planning to introduce six new pieces of legislation, all related to the storm.
"The people of New York City deserve some relief and they deserve some answers and deserve to not have this happen again," Williams said.
Williams wants to throw out all parking tickets incurred in the days following the storm. He also wants all parking regulations suspended for any storm that produces a certain amount of snow. Additionally, he's looking to require the mayor's Office of Emergency Management to share an action plan with Council members 24 hours before a storm.
City Councilman Vincent Gentile, meantime, is drafting yet another piece of storm-related legislation. It all adds up to yet another storm for Mayor Bloomberg, who is still trying shovel his way out of the current one.
8 comments:
The kangaroo court will be in session soon.
"it was the best of times,it was the worst of times"
;mike bloomberg (ist line in "tale of two cities)
the track of a storm: "it is a far,far better thing that i do , than i have ever done ;it is a far better rest that i go to than , i have ever known" ,busted n.y.c. sanitman.
(last line)
'"Where the mayor is or isn't is not important," said Wolfson.'
There would be no need for this coyness if the mayor had been in town.
And where was "first" deputy mayor Patricia Harris?
We already know that the mayor's Dep Mayor for Ops Goldsmith, who started his appt only in June 2010, was NOT in town ...
yrs in Astoria, Qns
mike B. was not driving any plow,that had it's shovel up ,and left the taxpayers stranded for three to five days.
For all the good these "hearings" will do, I'd rather hand these yoyo's a shovel next time it snows and let them do real work. We have too many politicians eating at the publics expense. Believe me the only thing that will happen is free TV time for the politicians and probably a free meal for working late.
BUT WILL THEY SHOW UP????
Bah!
What's the point?
The storm is past...but we still have that blowhard Bloomberg to continue icing up our lives!
Move to recall Mayor Mike...if any of you city council rats have any real courage!
What a farce, yet no can can answer why the EMS manager was demoted for this debacle.
Alfredo
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