City Councilman Jimmy Vacca wants to know why the Department of Environmental Protection is keeping tens of millions of dollars in discretionary “holding code” accounts while the city is preparing to raise water rates by 14 percent.
According to a May 2008 report from the Independent Budget Office, the DEP put away Read More
At a rally on the City Hall steps just now, Jimmy Vacca criticized the administration for not disclosing which fire companies they plan to cut or scale back. (Some in Brooklyn have already been cut.)
“Those who are next may not know they are next. That is probably done intentionally,” he said.
“Whether Read More
At a rally on the City Hall steps just now, Jimmy Vacca criticized the administration for not disclosing which fire companies they plan to cut or scale back. (Some in Brooklyn have already been cut.)
“Those who are next may not know they are next. That is probably done intentionally,” he said.
“Whether you’re next Read More
At a City Council hearing on how Michael Bloomberg’s budget will impact the Health and Human Services agency, its commissioner traded barbs with City Councilman Eric Gioia over the issue of “finger imaging” recipients in order to qualify for benefits.
Gioia said the program costs about $1 million annually, and acts as a “deterrent of Read More
Now that an amendment to create a charter revision commission has been defeated and the moment to vote is near, some undecided Council members are announcing how they will vote on extending term limits.
Alan Gerson, who was one of the members behind the amendment, said, “New Yorkers deserve to have a Read More
It’s barely 2008 and likely Bronx Borough President candidate and City Councilman Joel Rivera has already spent $144,852 of the $201,996 he raised.
According to the city Campaign Finance Board’s rules, Rivera has exceeded his out-year spending limit for a borough president candidate, which is $129,000. Any money spent beyond Read More
Here's an invitation to City Councilman Jimmy Vacca’s fund-raiser tonight at Villa Barone in the Bronx. Despite some early, and loud, talk about Vacca running for mayor, the money from this event is going towards his City Council re-election.
UPDATE: A spokesman for Vacca's campaign, Lester Marks, told me, "Nothing Read More
In the paper this week, I wrote about anunusual, private memo from a lobbyist that details the way to build a racial coalition on the CIty Counil around a single, contentious issue.
Richard Lipsky, a lobbyist for the Neighborhood Retail Alliance, is trying to organize a “diverse umbrella coalition” of Council members to Read More
