Community Support for: New York, NY 10016

Municipal Responsibility Standards and Ratings
as advocated by: Citizens for Accountability in Government
About Survey | Community Issues

Bill de Blasio
(current or last reported mayor or responsible official)

Community Website:
https://www1.nyc.gov/

Rate the performance of your community:

• Residential Quality of Life
The governing council recognizes and properly executes their responsibility to their voting constituents' quality of life as a priority not to be undermined by non-voting special business interests or political contributors.

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• Responsible Financial Management
The governing council collects no more taxes and disburses no more public funds than are reasonable and necessary to properly serve the fundamental needs and interests of their constituents without extravagancies or excesses.

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• Public Accountability and Transparency
The governing council recognizes, respects, and appropriately facilitates the public's right to be kept properly informed with reasonable access to hearings, records, minutes, and reports of the business and affairs conducted on the public's behalf and events known to the governing council that may meaningfully impact on the qualify of life of the public.

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• Public Safety
The governing council engages the appropriate resources and staff and no more than appropriate resources and staff to attend to the basic safety of the public within reasonable standards and limits without encroaching on the public's right to assume reasonable risks without government interference into their personal lives unnecessarily. The governing council seeks not to levy or collect public safety related fines or fees as a revenue source beyond the accomplishment of the foregoing. All other activities and endeavors of the governing council on behalf of the public, that are not directly related and necessary for public safety, shall be financed through fully transparent fees or taxation and not subsidized by excess fines and fees purporting to be required for public safety.

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• Public Infrastructure
The governing council anticipates and attends to the growing needs of the constituent public for the development, maintenance, and security of basic infrastructure fundamental and necessary to a functioning community, a respectable quality of life, and fairness and equanimity throughout the community.

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• Responsible Operational Management
The governing council sees to it that the people's business is attended to promptly, responsibly and efficiently without unnecessary delay or expense.

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• Public Services
The governing council causes those public services that are essentially necessary to the public interest and that cannot be reasonably born individually without collective management to be made available at the expense of the community through appropriate taxation or fees.

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• Community Development and Redevelopment
The governing council anticipates and attends to the needs of the constituent public for the development of housing, commercial development, and supportive infrastructure and community resources in a responsible, equal, and fair manner that affords all members of the community with equal respect and attentiveness, while being mindful not to unduly undermine, ignore, or neglect existing development.

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Surrender Your Heart...

...to a "funny valentine!"
and the triumph of shy courage
- Alice Fredenham

Rebellion to Tyrants...

...is Obedience to God
  - Oliver Cromwell

Flourish and Prosper!

Sustainable Happiness follows the
choice of Sustainable Values