Outgoing Mayor Adams vetoes 19 City Council bills
Eric Adams spent the waning hours of his mayoralty vetoing City Council legislation, convening another charter-revision commission staffed by loyalists (a panel whose work would spill into his successor's tenure), and packing up his office.
Among the 19 bills Adams vetoed include legislation:
- Giving the NYPD Civilian Complaint Review Board direct access to police officers' body cameras.
- Requiring half of affordable housing projects getting public money to be affordable for the poorest households.
- Blocking city property and employees' time from being used for immigration enforcement or by immigration authorities at all.
- Setting timelines for co-ops to approve or deny applications.
- Establishing new conflict-of-interest rules.
- Mandating just-cause termination for gig-economy workers such as Uber drivers.
Most of the bills passed with a veto-proof majority, but by vetoing the legislation on the last day of the year, Adams makes it harder for the council to override his veto.
Matthew Chayes, a Newsday reporter since 2007, covers New York City.
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