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Comptroller Stringer Honors Activist Edith Windsor in 2018 LGBTQ+ Guide

(New York, NY) — New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer today released an updated 2018 LGBTQ+ Guide to Services and Resources – the most comprehensive directory of LGBTQ+ organizations and programs in New York City. This year’s guide honors the life and legacy of LGBTQ-activist Edith “Edie” Windsor, whose 2013 landmark Supreme Court case overturned the anti-equality Defense of Marriage Act and helped open the door to legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. For many LGBTQ+ New Yorkers, connecting to services geared...
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Comptroller Stringer Statement on Upper West Side School Diversity Plan

“The plan to increase diversity in District 3 is a critical step towards achieving educational equality and addressing racial and income disparities in our City. All children – no matter their race or parents’ income – deserve a high quality education, which means access to schools with adequate resources, supported teachers and diverse student bodies. We will not be a fair, inclusive or just City until we take bold, concrete steps to desegregate all schools. I support Chancellor Carranza’s well...
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Testimony of NYC Comptroller Scott M. Stringer Before the Charter Revision Commission

Good afternoon Chair Perales and members of the Charter Revision Commission. Thank you for convening this forum on Community Boards and Land Use. Community boards play a central role in shaping neighborhood development and advising government on the needs and interests of our communities. I commend the Charter Revision Commission for examining ways to strengthen and support community boards in fulfilling their mission, and would like to offer recommendations for this commission to consider based on my experiences with community...
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Stringer Report Finds Students Too Often Have No Place to Turn Amid Rising Bullying in Schools

(New York, NY) — New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer today released a new report outlining the stark state of mental health and social services in our public schools, and data that illustrates a rise in bullying among City students. Comptroller Stringer’s new report, “Safe and Supportive Schools: A Plan to Improve School Climate and Safety in NYC,” presents a review of current data related to school safety – including a jump in bullying, and an alarming level of arrests...
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Following SCOTUS CakeShop Ruling, Comptroller Stringer Announces New Non-Discrimination Evaluation for Investment Managers Seeking To Do Business with NYC Pension Funds

(New York, NY) — Comptroller Scott Stringer announced today the Bureau of Asset Management (BAM) will now inquire about prospective fund managers’ commitment to maintaining non-discrimination policies and best practices as part of recommending them to the City’s pension boards for approval. The announcement comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to create a cake to celebrate the marriage of a same-sex couple based on a religious objection. BAM serves as the investment...
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Comptroller Stringer Statement on NYCHA Settlement

"With the impending appointment of a federal monitor and dedicated City funding, NYCHA now has the chance to get this right after decades of disinvestment and mismanagement.  But to ensure the monitor will be successful, here’s what needs to happen: we must overhaul the Authority from top to bottom. NYCHA needs a single executive leader with a clear mandate and accountability, not today’s divided board structure with a Chair and General Manager operating as separate fiefs. NYCHA needs a modern...
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Comptroller Stringer Appoints Chavon Sutton as Director, Diversity & Inclusion in Bureau of Asset Management

(New York, NY) — New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer today announced the appointment of Chavon Sutton as Director, Diversity & Inclusion – a newly created position within the Bureau of Asset Management. Reporting directly to the Chief Investment Officer and working closely with the Bureau of Asset Management (BAM) staff, the Director, Diversity & Inclusion will support BAM’s efforts to expand engagement with and utilization of Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises (MWBE) and emerging manager firms for the...
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Comptroller Stringer Releases New “Affordability Index” to Monitor Escalating Affordability Crisis

(New York, NY) – New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer today released a new first-of-its-kind tool for examining how the City’s mounting affordability crisis strains the everyday lives of representative New Yorkers. The new “Affordability Index” specifically tracks how much money New York City households have left over after taxes and basic expenses – money which they could use to save for retirement, pay for college expenses, or just take a family vacation – which the index finds has...
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Comptroller Stringer Debars Bronx Contractor for Stealing Over $120,000 in Prevailing Wages from Immigrant Workers

(New York, NY) — Today, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer announced Globe Gates, Inc., a Bronx-based contractor which does business as Global Overhead Doors, its owner and president Agostinho Tome, and his related corporate entity Global Iron Works, Inc. have been debarred from public works in the State of New York for their willful failure to pay prevailing wages to their workers and for the falsification of payroll records. The $143,000 settlement with Globe Gates provides for payment of...
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Comptroller Stringer Announces Chief Investment Officer Scott Evans Will Leave Position at End of Fiscal Year

(New York, NY) — Today, Comptroller Stringer announced that Scott C. Evans, the chief investment officer of the New York City Pension Funds for the last four years, has asked to step down from his role with the $194 billion systems at the end of this fiscal year, on June 29, 2018. The NYC Retirement System, composed of five funds, constitutes the fourth largest public pension fund in the nation. With this announcement, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer named Alex...
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New Stringer Report: 90% of City Contracts for Human Services Submitted Late for Registration, After the Contract Start Date

(New York, NY) — Today, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer released a new report that found pervasive delays in the City’s contracting system, particularly for human services contracts where 90.8 percent were submitted late for registration in Fiscal Year 2017 – half of them by six months or more. Moreover, all contract types had extensive delays – 81 percent of new and renewal contracts across all City agencies were submitted late in FY 2017. The report highlighted “Type 70”...
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Statement from Comptroller Stringer on the Passing of Herman “Denny” Farrell, Jr.

“For more than 40 years, Herman "Denny" Farrell served New York with unparalleled grace and integrity, as an Assemblymember and as a proud, big-D Democrat who never wavered in his commitment to lifting people up. “As someone who knew him since the age of 16, he was the ultimate mentor to me throughout my life, as he was for so many others. New York lost a giant in the passing of Denny Farrell, but he leaves behind a legacy of...
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