Queer Lawmakers Secure Committee Assignments
Out LGBTQ city councilmembers assigned to key posts
BY MATT TRACY
The seven new members
of the City Council’s
LGBT Caucus have received
their committee
assignments under City Council
Speaker Adrienne Adams, and
several have been tapped to serve
as committee chairs.
Crystal Hudson will chair the Aging
Committee; Chi Ossé will lead the
Cultural Affairs, Libraries, and International
Intergroup Relations Committee;
Lynn Schulman will be chair
of the Health Committee; and Tiffany
Cabán will chair the Committee on
Women and Gender Equity.
In addition to her job as committee
chair, Hudson, who represents
District 35 in Brooklyn, will join
the Committees on General Welfare;
Health; Housing and Buildings;
Cultural Affairs; and Finance.
Schulman, representing Queens’
Crystal Hudson of Brooklyn will chair the City Council’s Aging Committee.
District 29, is also joining the Committees
on Aging; Criminal Justice;
Education; Fire and Emergency
Management; and Governmental
Operations, as well as the Subcommittee
on Zoning and Franchises.
Cabán, of Queens’ District 22, was
named to the Committees on Public
Safety; Civil Service and Labor;
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General Welfare; Housing and
Buildings; Small Business; and
Mental Health, Disabilities, and
Addictions. Ossé will also be on the
Committees on Consumer Affairs
and Business Licensing; Finance;
General Welfare; Youth Services;
Sanitation and Solid Waste Management;
and Public Housing.
POLITICS
Erik Bottcher of Manhattan’s District
Three is co-chair of the Manhattan
delegation alongside District
1 Councilmember Chris Marte of
Manhattan. Bottcher is also on the
Committees on Civil Service and
Labor; Consumer Affairs and Business
Licensing; Public Safety; Land
Use; Mental Health, Disabilities,
and Addictions; and Sanitation and
Solid Waste Management.
Kristin Richardson Jordan of
Manhattan’s District Nine will
serve on the Committees on Aging;
Civil and Human Rights; Veterans;
Youth Services; Sanitation and Solid
Waste Management; and Women
and Gender Equity. Republican David
Carr of Staten Island will serve
on the Committees on Criminal
Justice; Parks and Recreation; Finance;
Fire and Emergency Management;
Transportation and Infrastructure;
and the Subcommittee
on Zoning and Franchises.
David Close
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