Adams, who ceases being mayor at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, is anticipated to veto round 20 payments in his remaining days, in accordance with the sources, who spoke on situation of anonymity.
One of many sources mentioned Friday that a number of vetoes will not be issued till New Yr’s Eve. The identical supply additionally cautioned the listing of payments set to be vetoed remains to be being finalized.
However a lot of vetoes are anticipated, with the sources referencing 19 payments specifically which might be prone to be focused, all of them handed by the Council throughout its remaining 2025 assembly on Dec. 18.
Among the many measures the mayor is seen as prone to veto is a invoice that may prohibit federal immigration authorities from sustaining places of work for any functions on metropolis Division of Correction property, a difficulty that has grow to be particularly fraught amid the Trump administration’s hardline crackdown on undocumented New Yorkers.
Different payments going through doubtless vetoes embrace ones that may:
Grant extra road merchandising licenses
Prohibit for-hire car firms like Uber from deactivating drivers with out trigger
Safe minimal pay requirements for safety guards within the metropolis
Create new ethics guidelines aimed toward rooting out corruption within the metropolis’s municipal contracting processes
Mandate that landlords present tenants with cooling programs
Require the NYPD to supply the Civilian Criticism Overview Board with entry to the entire division’s body-cam footage
Moreover, the mayor is predicted to veto a slate of payments handed Dec. 18 that may put native nonprofit teams on the entrance of the road for sure constructing gross sales, deepen affordability necessities in city-financed housing developments and require that extra two- and three-bedroom models be included in constructing initiatives backed by the town.
The mayor’s workplace signaled he was prone to veto the housing-related payments after they handed, issuing a press release lambasting the measures as misguided. Adams’ successor, incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani, has additionally voiced skepticism about a few of these payments.
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New York Metropolis Council members are pictured throughout a finances listening to within the Metropolis Council Chamber at Metropolis Corridor on Monday, March 4, 2024. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Each day Information)
The anticipated new vetoes come after the mayor late on Christmas Eve vetoed a invoice that, if handed, would open up an 18-month window for victims of gender-based violence to sue their perpetrators, even when statutes of limitations on their claims have expired.
Incoming Metropolis Council Speaker Julie Menin responded to the Christmas Eve veto by declaring the Council will promptly vote to override Adams when the chamber reconvenes in early January. Two-thirds of the Council’s 51 members have to help an override for it to achieve success.
“It is unfortunate that instead of working with the Council to shape legislation on the front end, the mayor is opting for a more acrimonious approach in his final days in office,” Menin mentioned. “The last few years have been marked by a disregard for the legislative process, whereby (agency) commissioners would routinely skip hearings, the most rudimentary agency data would not be provided to the Council and bill negotiations would often be delayed until the last minute.”
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Metropolis Councilwoman Julie Menin, the Council’s incoming new speaker. (Emil Cohen/NYC Council Media Unit)
Spokespeople for the mayor, whose first and solely time period was marred by his corruption indictment and different scandals, didn’t deny that vetoes are forthcoming, however declined to remark instantly on any explicit invoice.
As a substitute, the mayor’s workplace referred to a press release Fabien Levy, Adams’ prime spokesman, issued in regards to the housing development-related payments after they had been first handed final week.
“Irresponsible actions like these demonstrate the importance of Mayor Adams’ efforts to modernize the housing approval process through the ballot measures that passed this November,” Levy’s assertion mentioned. “Fortunately, Mayor Adams is in office until December 31 and we will be reviewing our next steps regarding the bills passed.”
