NYC Council speaker blasts Mayor Adams' new protocol for accessing agency heads
New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams advised her fellow councilmembers this week to ignore a new protocol from Mayor Eric Adams that encourages elected officials to fill out a detailed form in order to meet with leaders of his administration.
“If there were to be such a policy introduced to the Council, I have an issue with the executive branch of government issuing policy, so to speak, to any legislative branch of government,” the speaker said during a press conference at City Hall on Thursday. “I think it’s inappropriate, and we can just start there.
The tussle marks the latest development in growing tensions between the mayor and the Council. They have repeatedly fought over legislation, and the mayor has made several unsuccessful attempts to jettison recently passed measures onMayor Adams’ office did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Gothamist.
Speaker Adams said on Thursday that she had told her members to “conduct business as usual, because it is the most effective way that we deal with our agencies and our commissioners.” In a nod to one of the mayor's slogans, she said implementing a request form for engagements with agency leaders was “certainly not the way to ‘get stuff done’ for the people of the city.” During his first State of the City address, Mayor Adams introduced what he billed as a “Giulia Heyward is a reporter on the People and Power desk who covers politics and breaking news.
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