New York CIty Council Member Ben Kallos

Meg O'connor

Gotham Gazette Fixing City's 'Non-Functioning' Board of Elections Relies on State by Meg O'connor

Fixing City's 'Non-Functioning' Board of Elections Relies on State
Meg O'connor

Since the presidential primaries, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has opened an investigation into the BOE and New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer has launched an audit into the agency’s operations and management, callingthe BOE “consistently disorganized, chaotic, and ineffective.” City Council Member Ben Kallos, chair of the Council’s government operations committee, has promised to hold an oversight hearing on the BOE, though he also grilled BOE officials at the agency’s executive budget hearing May 13.

“Hope springs eternal,” Kallos replied dryly when asked if he believed the heightened scrutiny the BOE is currently facing would help to bring about any changes to the way the agency operates. “I hope that by bringing the commissioners to the City Council to be held personally accountable, we may get the change we are seeking,” Kallos said.

 

 

 

Gotham Gazette City Council ‘Deletes’ One Committee, But No Further Reforms Planned by Meg O'connor

City Council ‘Deletes’ One Committee, But No Further Reforms Planned
Meg O'connor

“Council Member Treyger has to vote for land use, we have four hearings that all of us have to be at at the same time,” Council Member Ben Kallos said during a Feb. 29 hearing held by the Committee on Government Operations.