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November 21, 2016

EDITOR’S NOTE / Contents

JON LENTZ Senior editor

In the wake of the presidential election, the news cycle has been dominated

by Donald Trump – his meetings and phone calls, his statements and tweets, his hirings and firings. The scrutiny of the press is essential, given Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric and questionable campaign pledges, his conspicuous lack of experience in government and charges of racism and sexism against members of his inner circle.

But these national concerns have eclipsed other important stories, allowing figures like Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano to largely avoid the spotlight.

Mangano was arrested, along with his wife and a local town supervisor, on Oct. 20, on bribery and corruption charges. But within days, everyone was once again transfixed by FBI Director James Comey, Anthony Weiner, Hillary Clinton’s private email server, and, ultimately, Trump’s election night upset.

In this issue, Opinion Editor Nick Powell shifts the focus back to Mangano, delving into the Republican county executive’s long-running alliance with Gov. Andrew Cuomo – and what it means for a governor who’s going to try, yet again, to clean up Albany.

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BOCHINCHE & BUZZ Gerson Borrero’s latest insider gossip

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ED MANGANO Andrew Cuomo’s questionable friendship with the indicted county executive

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SETTING THE AGENDA The first installment of our two-part preview of the 2017 state legislative session

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SLANT Nicole Gelinas on Airbnb’s underhanded tactics and why they fell short

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LAST WEEK’S ROUNDUP CUOMO 2020 Gov. Andrew Cuomo was a loyal foot soldier for Hillary Clinton, endorsing her early and rallying for her up through election night. But with Donald Trump’s unexpected victory, New York’s governor is widely seen as a potential Democratic challenger who could keep the billionaire businessman from winning a second term. Also among the names on the early 2020 short list is New York’s Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

BACK& FORTH A Q&A with New York City Human Rights Commissioner

CARMELYN MALALIS

C&S: YOU’RE TASKED WITH ENFORCING NEW YORK CITY’S HUMAN RIGHTS LAW. WHAT ARE YOU SEEING AFTER AN ELECTION MARKED

BY HATEFUL RHETORIC TARGETING WOMEN AND IMMIGRANTS? CM: If folks feel that they’ve been discriminated against or harassed, they can always file complaints with our law enforcement bureau. We have civil law enforcement powers to do that there.

If we see that there are issues in areas even where a complainant is not coming forward, we have the affirmative power of the city to investigate on our own.

In this environment, where there are people who may be scared, who may feel extremely vulnerable and perhaps even more vulnerable than they had felt even before the election, that power is very important, because we don’t require individuals to come forward and put their names out there. If we get information from community-based organizations or elected officials or faith-based leaders or groups, we’re able to take those facts and that information and investigate on our own so the folks who are most affected don’t have to put themselves out there.

C&S: WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN? CM: What we’ve seen is something that as anyone who’s turned on the television or looked at social media knows, there’s a lot of fear out there. There’s a lot of uncertainty. People are wondering what the election means for them, what it means for their communities, their families going forward. As a parent to two young children, having to wake up the day after and explain in a very personal way what people’s fears or thoughts would be, hit home for me.

FLANAGAN FLEXES MUSCLE State Senate Republicans aren’t assured a majority, but John Flanagan performed well enough to be re-elected as conference leader. Flanagan still needs two incumbents – Michael Venditto and Carl Marcellino – to win in races too close to call for an absolute majority. Otherwise, he’ll have to keep state Sen. Simcha Felder in the fold, partner with Jeff Klein’s growing IDC, or both.

LEGISLATIVE PAY FREEZE State lawmakers are pushing for a raise, but Cuomo’s appointees on a state compensation commission last week came out against the pay hike. A proposal would have raised salaries to $110,000, up from the current $79,500, but it was held up over lawmakers’ failure to cap outside income. Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie blasted the decision as political, calling it “completely unacceptable.”

THIS WEEK’S EVENTS

TUESDAY, NOV. 22 10 a.m. – Two New York City Council committees hold an oversight hearing on 421-a. The state real estate tax exemption program, which critics say failed to create enough affordable housing, lapsed in January. Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced a deal to renew it, but state lawmakers must sign on. Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

WEDNESDAY,NOV.30 8 a.m. – City & State’s On Labor & Public Projects event features Robert Asaro-Angelo, eastern regional representative of the U.S. Labor Department.

The Port Authority’s Patrick Foye joins a panel on public-private partnerships, with other discussions on the changing rules of labor and how business and labor can work together. Hebrew Union College, 1 W. 4th St., Manhattan.

Upcoming events: Planning an event in the next few weeks that our readers should know about? Submit details to editor@cityandstateny.com. We’ll pick the most interesting or important ones and feature them in print each week.

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November 21, 2016

DID YOU MISS IT? SOMOS EL FUTURO After Election Day, lawmakers and lobbyists flew down to Puerto Rico for the annual fall gathering of Somos el Futuro, an organization that focuses on the needs of New York’s Hispanic population. The gathering attracts both Democrats and Republicans, but for some of the attendees sunny San Juan was welcome escape after the election of Donald Trump to the presidency. For others, it was a simply a chance to enjoy the lively mix of policy discussions and parties.

Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Mayor Bill de Blasio and first lady Chirlane McCray

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, McCray, Public Advocate Letitia James, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, and Crespo

Assemblyman Victor Pichardo, Public Advocate James, state Sen. Jose Peralta and Rep.-elect Adriano Espaillat

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MELISSA MARK-VIVERITO

City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, Assemblywoman-elect Carmen De La Rosa and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie

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De Blasio with City Councilman Robert Cornegy (second from left) and others

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DiNapoli, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., and Sullivan

At the Somos el Futuro conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito gave her take on Donald Trump’s election and talked about how the Democratic Party should pick up the pieces and move forward. She also had some thoughts on the new governor of Puerto Rico, which also held elections Nov. 8.

“There’s some soul-searching we’ve got to do about what happened here and restructuring the Democratic Party, rebuilding the Democratic Party.

I’m committed to that. I was very happy to hear about Congressman Keith Ellison’s interest in serving as DNC chair, I support that. I know Keith Ellison, I know his values, I know what he stands for, and I think the party would be well-suited to have him leading right now.” “(Puerto Rico Governor-elect Ricky Rosselló is) a robot. He’s a puppet. I’m sorry, I’m probably going to get a lot of hate on my Twitter feed, but he really is not a prepared individual and he has basically surrounded himself by lobbyists and advisers who are going to control the agenda.”

Assemblyman Walter Mosley and Cornegy

City & State’s Gerson Borrero and Nick Powell interviewing Diaz and Crespo

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TRUMPITO HOMBRE TALKING TOO MUCHO THE BUZZ AMONG a few bochincheros close to wannabe Secretary of State Rudy Giuliani is that the former alcalde has destroyed his chances by talking demasiado. His bocón ways are not welcome in this period of transition.

A bochinchero with some insights into Trumpito’s world tells me that the PEOTUS doesn't like all the attention that his most loyal and vocal adulator is getting. The other dolor de cabeza for the Trumpista cheerleader – who enjoys a good cocktail – may be that he's having one too many tragos. Buzz is that those cigars at the Grand Havana Room are often accompanied by stiff drinks.

It may be that Rudy is making pit stops at the exclusive members-only club at 666 Fifth Avenue. The bochinchero speculates that Rudy may be having a trago or two before some of those TV appearances in which he has looked and sounded like he's gone completely loco.

Then again, loyalty may trump all else in Trumpito’s world, and that would give Rudy a leg up on the SOS race.

BROOKLYN DA RACE ON THE SOMOS MENU ERIC GONZALEZ DID participate in “The Latino Perspective on the Criminal Justice System” panel. That made his viaje to Somos an official event. However, the hand-picked successor of the late Ken Thompson did have a sit-down meeting with MirRam principal Roberto Ramirez and Eduardo Castell. That was a bona fide political encuentro.

There was a fourth person, a white male, who shared a meal at the Il Giardino La Trattoria Restaurant located on the main floor of the Caribe Hilton in San Juan. “(Gonzalez) has talked to other political consultants,” a well-connected bochinchero at Somos told B&B. So, follow the pelota here. MirRam works with Public Advocate Letitia James. Which suggests that she's not interested in being district attorney of her home borough. Remember that Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams had been hoping for this to happen behind the scenes. So Tish is likely clearing the way for the conversation that los muchachos had about Gonzalez seriously exploring changing his status in 2017 to candidate for the first time.

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NOT SO LIGERO SEÑOR DA TISH JAMES MAY not be interested in running against Eric Gonzalez. Pero, there is another qualified female African-American attorney who is. This person is seriously contemplating the possibility. “She would make a good candidate,” the well informed bochinchero told B&B. The information about this woman's interest was shared by my source on the condition that I not use her name. All I can say is that this person could give Eric Gonzalez and any other candidate a serious run for their money…

STRINGER COMIÉNDOSE THE MAYOR'S POLLO NEW YORK CITY Comptroller Scott Stringer attended the Somos conference with the sole purpose of exploring how much support he could garner for his possible challenge to Mayor Bill de Blasio.

And while all is fair in this type of event, we certainly were taken aback when we saw Stringer downing the chicken at the mayor's reception in San Juan.

There was no bochinchero dropping this one on us. We witnessed firsthand Stringer setting himself up by the main entrance of the party room. The hambriento político's busy hands picked food from every tray that came near him. All while he shook hands and spoke with de Blasio's guests.

At 6:42 p.m., Stringer must've filled his panza and left the hunting ground.

For his part, Mayor de Blasio walked in at 7:03. B&B didn't see the mayor eat a single thing.

REMEMBER, GENTE, IT’S ALL BOCHINCHE UNTIL IT’S CONFIRMED.

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THE GOVERNOR’S REPUBLICAN

Andrew Cuomo’s questionable friendship with indicted Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano

By NICK POWELL

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NDREW CUOMO’S TWO terms as governor and face of the New York state Democratic Party have, in large part, been defined by forging alliances with the opposite side of the aisle.

In some cases, Cuomo’s political détente with Republicans has borne fruit – his horse-trading for several key GOP state Senate votes pushed same-sex marriage across the finish line in 2011 – and in other cases his palling around with the elephants has proven to be a weighty albatross (see: his tepid efforts to help Senate Democrats regain power in 2014) as he has tiptoed toward progressivism in the last two years.

But unlike Cuomo’s relationship with Senate Republicans such as Dean Skelos (convicted last year on corruption charges) and John Flanagan, which he could at least justify under the guise of government functionality, the roots of his friendship with recently indicted Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano are far more complicated and perplexing.

Mangano, along with his wife, Linda, and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto, was charged in October with 13 counts of corruption for allegedly accepting bribes and kickbacks in exchange for funneling $437,000 in county contracts to a local restaurateur named Harendra Singh. In exchange, Singh allegedly provided lavish gifts to the Manganos, including vacations to Niagara Falls, Florida, St. Thomas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands; new hardwood flooring for their bedroom; a $3,624 massage chair; a $3,372 ergonomic office chair; and a $7,304 watch. Linda Mangano also received more than $450,000 over several years for a no-show “food taster” job at one of Singh’s restaurants.

Mangano’s tenure as county executive has been marred by irresponsible fiscal stewardship, near blatant flouting of campaign finance laws and a pay-for-play contracting system largely rubber-stamped by hand-picked Cuomo allies.

What began for Cuomo as an association of convenience, competitiveness and expediency steadily evolved to full-on enabling of Mangano’s ethically murky behavior, particularly as it pertains to Nassau’s finances and contracting process, which a county district attorney in 2014 called “a recipe for corruption.”

WHILE NOT NEARLY the inspirational liberal orator that his father was, many of Andrew Cuomo’s political calculations can, in some ways, be traced back to

Mario Cuomo’s three terms as governor.

His relationship with Ed Mangano is no different.

In 1994, seeking a fourth term, Gov. Mario Cuomo lost to a little-known Republican state senator named George Pataki, in large part because of voters in Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island. Pataki beat Cuomo by 4 percentage points – roughly 120,000 votes statewide – and won Nassau and Suffolk by just 112,000 votes. Political observers say that Cuomo the elder felt betrayed by Long Island voters, and the sting of that defeat apparently extended to his son.

When Andrew Cuomo ran for attorney general against Republican Jeanine Pirro, he, too, had trouble making headway with Long Island voters. While Cuomo would win the general election with 58.3 percent of the vote, his combined margin of victory in Nassau and Suffolk counties was less than 5 percent – a mere 28,635 votes.

Despite his lack of success in Long Island, Cuomo had the red carpet laid out for a gubernatorial run in 2010, a stage where he had failed embarrassingly in 2002. While Cuomo was all but assured election against an unpopular and erratic Republican candidate, Carl Paladino, he became obsessed with running up the score. He knew the key to a far-reaching legislative mandate was winning over suburban voters, and so he began making overtures to Nassau County Republicans, including Mangano, who was one year into his first term as county executive after defeating Democratic incumbent Tom Suozzi.

Mangano and Cuomo, according to sources with knowledge of their relationship, were simpatico from the start – both lawyers by trade, car-obsessed, with Italian heritage. It also helped that Cuomo had a rocky relationship with Suozzi dating back decades, both personally and politically.

When Cuomo was running for governor in July 2010, Mangano joined him at a campaign stop in North Merrick, their first public appearance together, and touted Cuomo’s proposal for a statewide 2 percent property tax cap, an idea that Suozzi had long advocated as county executive. A year later as governor, Cuomo signed the property tax cap law in Lynnbrook with Mangano beaming at his side – another twist of the knife for Suozzi.

Several months after their joint appearance, in October, Mangano employed what would come to be known as a classic Andrew Cuomo tactic – the

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non-endorsement endorsement. Paladino took the stage at a Republican rally in Hicksville and called Nassau County “the most important county in the state of New York for this election.” Mangano left the stage without shaking Paladino’s hand.

When asked later whether he supported Paladino, Mangano replied, “I’m here to support all our GOP candidates.”

MANGANO WAS ELECTED in 2009 largely on a typical conservative campaign platform of fiscal responsibility and tax cuts, but he also inherited a precarious fiscal situation in Nassau, with a structural deficit of $170 million, which called his austerity platform into question. Under Suozzi, and with the help of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a statecontrolled fiscal monitoring board created in 2000, Democratic county lawmakers began balancing the books.

But upon taking office, Mangano repealed Suozzi’s energy tax on homeowners and a 13 percent property tax hike, a massive loss of revenue that blew a $176 million hole in the $2.6 billion county budget. Despite the glaring fiscal issues, Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo was quick to shoot down the notion that NIFA should take control of the county’s books, saying he would “look to the county executive first” and that “I don’t think the state should be dictating to a county” what it should do with its finances.

By January 2011, battle lines were emerging in the Nassau fiscal fight.

Mangano’s camp had let it be known that they felt the NIFA board was “politically tilted” because of its previous cooperation with Suozzi, according to Newsday. Never mind the fact that NIFA board member George Marlin, a Conservative Party activist and vocal supporter of Mangano’s 2009 campaign, was among those warning that the county was “on the edge of a fiscal abyss.” Despite weeks of contentious backand-forth, NIFA voted unanimously that same month to take control of Nassau’s finances. The takeover gave NIFA control over the budget and all decisions related to borrowing, and veto power over all county contracts.

NIFA’s decision threw a major wrench in Mangano’s autonomy over the county government, leading him to sue NIFA to block the takeover. In the meantime, the county executive leaned on his relationship with Cuomo to ease NIFA’s restrictions in any way possible.

Because NIFA is an extension of the state, Cuomo was able to exert influence,

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Nassau Interim Finance Authority says structural county deficit - at $170 million - is higher than it was in 2001. That same month, Newsday reports Ed Mangano, a Republican county legislator running for county executive, had more than $900,000 in federal and state tax liens against his family printing business. Mangano’s response: “I left the business in 1996, '97 - say '98 to be safe.”

January 2010 Ed Mangano assumes office as Nassau County Executive, after defeating Democratic incumbent Tom Suozzi in the November 2009 election.

July 2010

Mangano appears alongside then-AG Cuomo at a campaign stop in North Merrick, touting their support for Cuomo’s 2 percent property tax cap – something Tom Suozzi had been calling for for years.

October 2012

December 2012

Superstorm Sandy devastates Long Island, and Cuomo spends significant time in Nassau and Suffolk counties, eliciting praise from Mangano’s office.

NIFA Chairman Ronald Stack’s term expires. Stack stays on as chairman.

February 2013

October 2009

Nassau Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs alleges that Ed Mangano is breaking state campaign finance law by illegally soliciting donations through the Hicksville Republican Club and using the money to make lavish expenditures such as a luxury suite at MetLife Stadium.

Many of the firms donating to the club would received Superstorm Sandy cleanup contracts.

September 2013

Cuomo appoints North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman – also his Sandy recovery czar – as new NIFA chairman, shortly after Mangano releases his proposed $2.8 billion budget. Cuomo also appoints two other NIFA board members – Paul Annunziato, a vice president at Morgan Stanley and Lester Petracca, president of Triangle Equities.

With three new appointees, plus John Buran, Cuomo appointees now make up majority of NIFA’s board.

Kaiman, at Cuomo’s behest had formed a committee to explore a primary run against Tom Suozzi, though Kaiman decided against it.

Fred Dicker reports that Cuomo fired Stack to halt NIFA’s frequent criticisms of Mangano’s fiscal policies.

October 2016

Ed Mangano, his wife Linda, and Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto are arrested and indicted on 13 counts of corruption. The indictment from U.S. Attorney Robert Capers alleges a bribery and kickback scheme dating back to the beginning of 2010, in which Mangano and Venditto made sure that contracts from the town and county went to a local businessman and restaurateur named Harendra Singh in exchange for free gifts and vacations.

October 2013

Newsday reports that Mangano, PBA president James Carver and three NIFA board members hold a private meeting. Marlin crashes meeting, while Wright refuses an invitation. Marlin says the meeting could be construed as a bargaining session on Mangano and Carver’s proposal to end almost three years of PBA wage freezes, which NIFA would later have to approve.

Later that month, Cuomo gives a tepid endorsement of Tom Suozzi for county executive in race against Mangano. The day before Cuomo’s announcement, Mangano debuts a TV ad of Cuomo praising him.

February 2016

Jon Kaiman steps down as NIFA chairman to run for Congress against, among others, Cuomo’s old foe Tom Suozzi.

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December 2010

GOP gov nominee Carl Paladino calls “Nassau the most important county in the state of New York for this election” to GOP crowd in Hicksville. Mangano makes appearance, doesn’t shake Paladino’s hand, dodges question on whether he is specifically supporting Paladino, saying he “supports all our GOP candidates.”

May 2012

Mangano makes a direct appeal to Albany to pass legislation giving him the authority to borrow at least $41 million without approval of the Legislature or NIFA or to use a previously authorized $192 million in bonds.

Cuomo publicly urges Mangano and NIFA to work together to solve fiscal crisis. He says Mangano’s borrowing plan raises “all sorts of questions.”

Cuomo tells reporters in Albany that he will look to Mangano first in reining in Nassau County’s troubled finances. NIFA Chairman Ronald Stack warns that Mangano’s budget is not balanced.

NIFA votes unanimously to take control of Nassau’s finances and gives Mangano a Feb. 15 deadline to come up with a financial plan that eliminated risky revenue initiatives, expense cuts and contingencies in his $2.6 billion budget. Marlin says budget built on a “foundation of sand.”

Newsday reports that, since 2011, when the Nassau Interim Finance Authority has had final say on most aspects of the county budget, it has voted down less than 1 percent of all country contracts of $50,000 and above, with only one single contract disapproved after 2013. Several of those contracts became the subject of corruption probes. To avoid future automatic contract approvals, Jon Kaiman said NIFA “may soon schedule regular meetings.”

March 2014

Newsday reports that ArchCon, a firm controlled by Gary Melius, received a $655,000 contract from Nassau County handle Sandy debris removal, but most of the debris removal tickets attached to the firm list other companies.

Cuomo’s executive order allowed municipalities to waive usual competitive bidding requirements in the immediate aftermath of the storm.

April 2015

Mangano aide Pat Foye resigns from his post as economic adviser after Mangano sues state to block NIFA takeover of county’s finances. Foye says it was “irresponsible and wrong” to sue state and smear NIFA board members.

Cuomo signs property tax cap law in Lynbrook, Long Island with Mangano beaming at his side.

Newsday reports that Mangano and NIFA chairman Ronald Stack met separately with a top Cuomo aide two weeks before NIFA allowed Mangano to borrow up to $450 million over four years to balance the budget.

Nassau Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs questions why DA Kathleen Rice has not filed criminal charges of witness tampering or election law violations against former Freeport Mayor Andrew Hardick.

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January 2011

Mangano is subpoenaed as part of the federal grand jury probe targeting state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

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July 2014

Acting Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas calls county’s contracting process a “recipe for corruption,” adding it’s not insulated from “improper influence, manipulation, collusion and fraud.”

October 2014

Mangano endorses Cuomo for re-election.

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“AS I WAS WALKING IN, (MANGANO) PUT OUT HIS HAND. HE SAID, ‘GOVERNOR, AS ALWAYS, GOOD TO SEE YOU. HOW MUCH IS THE CHECK FOR?’ AND I SMILED BECAUSE SOMETIMES IT IS ABOUT THE MONEY, AND THE FINANCES ARE VERY IMPORTANT HERE.” – Gov. ANDREW CUOMO

even though he inherited many of the board members from his predecessors.

In October 2011, Newsday reported that Mangano and NIFA Chairman Ronald Stack met separately with a top Cuomo aide two weeks before NIFA allowed Mangano to borrow up to $450 million over four years to help balance the budget.

Entering 2012, NIFA continued to scrutinize the county’s spending, rejecting a contract with Morgan Stanley to privatize the county’s sewer system after Mangano dragged his feet in forwarding a copy of the contract to the board, forcing them to download it from the county legislature’s website.

By this time, Mangano had an open line of communication with the Second Floor. Cuomo’s top aide, Larry Schwartz, had more than once urged the NIFA board to “relax its vise” on the Mangano administration, Newsday reported.

Mangano’s relationship with Cuomo would only grow stronger after Superstorm Sandy devastated Long Island in October 2012. With Nassau County ground zero for Sandy recovery, Cuomo made frequent appearances alongside Mangano, presenting a united, bipartisan front and praising each other’s leadership. Cuomo helped funnel millions in federal disaster recovery funds to Nassau County, and even issued an executive order waiving competitive bidding requirements for contractors to expedite the recovery process, eliminating a key aspect of the contracting bureaucracy.

Months later, after an event where he announced $40 million in reimbursements for Nassau to cover losses from the storm,

Cuomo would share a telling anecdote about his relationship with Mangano in the wake of the storm. “As I was walking in, he put out his hand. He said, ‘Governor, as always, good to see you. How much is the check for?’” Cuomo said. “And I smiled because sometimes it is about the money, and the finances are very important here.”

While Cuomo’s leadership during Sandy helped Nassau bounce back relatively quickly, this particular decision would provide Mangano the perfect opportunity to reward the benefactors of his re-election campaign.

IN FEBRUARY 2013, Nassau County Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs filed a complaint with the state Board of Elections that Mangano and his deputy, Rob Walker, were breaking state campaign finance law by illegally soliciting campaign donations through the Hicksville Republican Club, which Walker controls, and using the money to make lavish expenditures such as a luxury suite at MetLife Stadium.

A July 2013 City & State investigation found that donations to the club in 2012 had more than tripled from the previous year, from $111,835 to $363,255, with tens of thousands of dollars coming from a variety of companies that would later receive lucrative county contracts for Sandy cleanup and debris removal. One month later, the state attorney general’s office issued subpoenas to look into Mangano’s re-election campaign, the MetLife skybox and a Sandy contractor, Looks Great Services, that had exceeded campaign finance donation limits and received $70 million in county contracts

for repair work.

While the reports of subpoenas and allegations of political graft might have further emboldened the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, by the time Mangano’s 2013 re-election campaign was heating up in September – against Suozzi again – Cuomo had reshaped the board to effectively rubber stamp Mangano’s fiscal agenda.

The resignation of board members Thomas Stokes and Robert Wild in 2012 left two open seats for Cuomo to fill, with Stack’s term as chairman also expiring at the end of that year. Cuomo immediately replaced Stokes with John Buran, a banking executive who had made a $125 contribution to Mangano in March 2011.

And in September 2013, Cuomo filled three other vacancies on the board, appointing his Sandy Recovery czar Jon Kaiman – a local town supervisor with a limited financial background – as NIFA chairman, as well as Paul Annunziato from Morgan Stanley – the same company NIFA had previously flagged in Mangano’s sewer privatization effort – and Lester Petracca.

With these three new appointments, plus Buran, Cuomo appointees now made up a majority of the board.

This stacking of allies paid immediate dividends for Mangano, and subsequently Cuomo as well. Mangano would win re-election in 2013, owing in large part to the governor’s lack of involvement on behalf of Suozzi, a fellow Democrat.

Cuomo repaid Mangano’s favor of tepidly endorsing Carl Paladino in 2010 by doing the same in 2013, mentioning Suozzi only briefly among a long list of Democratic candidates he was supporting at a lateOctober rally in Albertson – even though Suozzi was there. The day before that endorsement, Mangano debuted a TV ad in which Cuomo praises him while signing the property tax cap bill in 2011. At the event the next day, Nassau Democrats were livid, and demanded that Cuomo denounce the ad and tell Mangano to take it down. Sources familiar with the situation say that Cuomo declined.

“The result was that the endorsement game was worth spit,” one Nassau Democrat recalled. “He explicitly gave permission to Mangano to run (the ad).”

When Cuomo ran for re-election, his years of assisting Mangano behind the scenes paid off. Mangano crossed party lines to endorse Cuomo in October 2014, helping Cuomo win Nassau County by 8 percentage points over his Republican opponent, Rob Astorino.

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MEANWHILE, CUOMO’S HANDPICKED NIFA chairman, Jon Kaiman, proved a far more malleable administrator than his predecessor, rarely scheduling regular NIFA meetings and negotiating deals out of expediency rather than fiscal prudence. A 2015 Newsday report found that since 2013, the year that Kaiman took over, the board shot down a single contract over $50,000, with two of the approved contracts surfacing in criminal probes.

Many of these large contracts received automatic approval because of the lack of scheduled meetings.

Most notably, NIFA didn’t schedule a meeting in October 2013 to review a $12 million contract with AbTech Industries, a pact that was central to the federal corruption case that led to the convictions of state Sen. Dean Skelos – then the majority leader – and his son, Adam.

Another contract for Sandy cleanup was automatically approved by NIFA in August 2014 with a company called VIP Splash.

The contract would later be the subject of a Nassau County investigation after it was discovered that the company donated $2,925 to the Hicksville Republican Club – run by Mangano’s deputy, Rob Walker – the same day that the county added an $8

million amendment to the contract.

The authority has been even less stringent in scrutinizing Mangano’s budgets. Rather than raise taxes to increase county revenue, NIFA has allowed Mangano to borrow money hand over fist to cover payroll obligations and even union raises. By 2014, the $176 million county deficit that Mangano inherited in 2009 had grown to $189.2 million. And even with spending cuts in the ensuing years, NIFA projects that the county will still have a $99.5 million deficit for fiscal year 2017. This, of course, did not stop Mangano from giving himself a $17,000 pay raise months before the FBI showed up on his doorstep on Oct. 20.

Cuomo has yet to comment on his ally’s indictment, but the implications and disastrous results of his seven-year alliance with Mangano are clear. Mangano is one of several people in the Cuomo orbit to get indicted in the last three months.

Former aide Joe Percoco – who Cuomo referred to as a “third son” to Mario at his father’s funeral – was charged with soliciting bribes in exchange for state contracts, and Todd Howe, an ex-Cuomo aide-turned-lobbyist, pleaded guilty to corruption charges and is cooperating with

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federal authorities. Together, Howe and Percoco conspired with another Cuomo associate, SUNY Polytechnic Institute President Alain Kaloyeros, to rig the bidding process for the Buffalo Billion, one of Cuomo’s signature economic development initiatives.

While Cuomo has steadfastly denied any knowledge or involvement in the allegations against Howe, Percoco and Kaloyeros, and has supposedly commissioned an internal investigation into their actions, at best these allegations paint him as a leader who turns a blind eye to corrupt dealmaking right under his nose.

At a time when Cuomo appears to be finally taking statewide ethics reform seriously after years of kicking the can down the road and blaming the Legislature for lacking the “appetite” to get it passed, it’s easy to wonder how much of Mangano’s behavior could have been avoided had the governor’s hunger for a “mandate” not taken precedent over sound fiscal management of one of New York’s most populous counties. Instead, Cuomo’s coziness with Mangano and his former aides is an indelible stain on his credibility in leading this renewed charge toward good government.

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SETTING THE AGENDA Get a head start on the 2017 state legislative session

CONTENTS

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ELECTION AFTERSHOCKS

HOW THE UNEXPECTED OUTCOMES WILL SHAKE UP THE SESSION

By JON LENTZ

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LABOR

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RENEWING THE LAPSED 421-A TAX CREDIT TOPS THE AGENDA

By ASHLEY HUPFL

EDUCATION

FROM MAYORAL CONTROL TO CHARTERS, LAWMAKERS FACE THE SAME TESTS

By ASHLEY HUPFL

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HEALTH CARE

BRACING FOR TRUMP’S OBAMACARE AND ROE V. WADE DECISIONS

By JEREMY UNGER

Andrew Cuomo is still the governor. Democrats continue to dominate the state Assembly.

Republicans remain optimistic that they’ll maintain control of the state Senate, while state Sen. Jeff Klein and his Independent Democratic Conference are once again weighing which party to partner with. State Sen. Simcha Felder, a Democrat who has caucused with the Republicans, also appears to be waiting to see how a few close races shake out before picking a side.

Indeed, the status quo in Albany may be virtually unchanged in 2017, at least in terms of the balance of power. But these superficial similarities to recent legislative sessions only take us so far. When President-elect Donald Trump upset Hillary Clinton this month, assumptions were overturned and legislative plans were cast aside. Senate Republicans, who were widely expected to lose seats, may be emboldened. In the wake of embarrassing national and state losses, Democrats may go back to the drawing board.

To navigate this new landscape, City & State is presenting its annual Setting the Agenda special section, a preview of the most pressing issues in 2017. In the first installment of this twopart series, we have the latest on labor, health care and education. The second installment, out early next month, will feature reports on infrastructure, energy, ethics and more.

State leaders are still setting their agendas.

Don’t miss the latest developments – and a chance to shape them.

Move Over!

It’s easy and it’s New York State LAW.

When you see a refuse truck and crew working on the streets: SLOW DOWN, MOVE OVER away from workers and trucks.

As of Nov. 1, 2016 sanitation and recycling workers are covered under the state’s “Move Over” law.

Under the law, drivers must move over to make room for emergency, construction and now sanitation and recycling vehicles, if they can safely do so.

CSEA played a key role in passing the legislation, as well as with ongoing efforts to keep sanitation workers safe on the job.

Better AABetter NewNew York York For All For more information about our union’s sanitation safety efforts, or to see the Slow Down to Get Around PSA video, visit: www.cseany.org/sanitation-safety

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GOV. ANDREW CUOMO VIEWING POST-ELECTION MESSAGES IN A NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY STATION.

ELECTION SURPRISES SHAKE UP THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION – WITH MORE SHOCKS TO COME

By JON LENTZ

IN THE SPRING of 2014, Donald Trump travelled to Albany to join a rally against the SAFE Act, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s landmark gun control law. Trump, who was being floated as a potential challenger to Cuomo at the time, tore into the governor’s record on energy policy, job creation and combating government corruption. “Obviously, we know our country’s not doing so well, our country’s in trouble, but our state, likewise, is doing very, very poorly,” Trump told the cheering crowd. “So I just wanted to be here to support you.”

Two and a half years later, Trump is instead heading to the White House, where he’ll arguably pose an even greater threat to Cuomo and his agenda. As president, Trump will have far more power and influence in Washington, D.C., as well as in Al-

bany and in state capitals all across the country. On the campaign trail, Trump promised the reversal of dozens of policies, laws or regulations, most of them Democratic priorities, that would reverberate around the nation.

The incoming Trump administration will find success on many fronts thanks to the Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. House Speaker Paul Ryan has proposed budgets that would dramatically scale back federal spending on Medicaid, food stamps, education and other areas. Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, has fought the Obama administration’s efforts on climate change, and joins Trump and Ryan in opposition to the Affordable Care Act. Such major federal legislation or regulatory shifts will eventually filter down to New York. If Obamacare is eliminated, will state

lawmakers scrounge up the funds needed to make up the shortfall in funding and maintain the expansion of Medicaid and subsidized health insurance coverage?

If the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is gutted, will the state have the resources to pick up the slack in protecting the environment? If federal abortion rights are eroded or overturned, will state legislators respond? Will the state obstruct federal efforts to round up immigrants and transport them back across the border?

How New York officials confront these questions, at least legislatively, depends on the statewide balance of power – and for now, that balance is up in the air. While Democrats hold the governorship and the state Assembly, Senate Republicans are

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banking on an extra-inning victory by state Sen. Michael Venditto – who was down by just 33 votes in an unexpectedly close Long Island race – to secure an absolute majority. If Venditto loses after a full count of the ballots, the GOP would be forced to rely on state Sen. Simcha Felder, a Democrat who has caucused with Republicans since taking office in 2013, or state Sen. Jeff Klein and his seven-member IDC, which has kept the GOP in power before. Klein has been lying low since the election, while Felder has declined to publicly commit to a party. On some bills Democrats may push in reaction to Trump and his policies – like the immigrant-friendly DREAM Act or a revived effort to codify Roe v. Wade in state law – it wouldn’t even matter where Felder lands, since he is opposed to the measures.

If Senate Republicans do ultimately retain power, some observers expect them to be more energized and aggressive this session. Abandoned by Cuomo during the elections and empowered by Trump, Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan may be less inclined to compromise as he has in the past on issues like the SAFE Act and a higher minimum wage.

“Assuming Republicans hold the (Ven-

ditto seat), I think you will find a reinvigorated Senate majority that had feared it was going to lose control and it did better than it expected to, and in a lot of districts, Trump himself was a positive where a lot of people felt he would be a negative,” said Lawrence Levy, the executive dean of Hofstra University’s National Center for Suburban Studies.

“So how they use the power in light of having a president of their own party is too soon to say, but they have to be prepared for the possibility of deep cuts in federal spending.”

Another critical element going into the 2017 state legislative session is the chameleon-like Cuomo, who has been a fiscal hawk one moment and a liberal lion the next. Thrust back into the national conversation as a potential presidential challenger in 2020, Cuomo has pledged to stand up for core progressive values while at the same time suggesting that Trump is someone he could work with. One obvious area of shared interests is infrastructure investment, with Trump pledging a new influx of funding and Cuomo staking his second term on an ambitious slate of projects, including new bridges, tunnels and rail lines and overhauls at LaGuardia Airport and Penn Station. Will Cuomo revert to his role

Our Perspective Moving Forward

By Stuart Appelbaum, President, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, RWDSU, UFCW

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e’ve just been through what has been the most divisive, exhausting, and unsettling presidential election in our lifetime. Many people – especially immigrants – are apprehensive or even terrified. Anti-Black, anti-Muslim, and anti-Semitic incidents are happening online, in schools, and workplaces, and on the streets with more frequency. Swastikas and Nazi graffiti have appeared on more college campuses and storefronts. The entire world is worried.

We are facing incredible challenges, but we cannot succumb to pessimism or despair. If we do, the worst of what this election has unleashed will be normalized and grow in power. Instead, we must recommit ourselves to strengthening our movement for social and economic justice and defeating the forces of hatred and bigotry in our society.

It will take hard work, meaningful dialogue, and sustained action to build a

country that is fairer and better for all working people, especially those who have been left behind and harmed by globalization and the current economic order. Many immigrant workers, white workers, women and people of color feel trapped in an economy that fails them and only seems to reward those at the very top.

Yet too often working people today who share common interests but come from different backgrounds speak past each other, not to each other. We must bring working people together across their differences and help them understand their common interests and why it’s so crucial to fight and organize as a unified twenty-first century labor movement.

And we have to press our political leaders and representatives – not only Republicans but also Democrats – that they must improve economic fairness, close the widening economic gap, improve the job prospects of working people, and make it easier for unions to organize so they can represent their

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as a pragmatic centrist who closed a $10 billion budget gap, spearheaded a property tax cap and instituted spending limits on his own state agencies, or will he attempt to build on his reputation as a champion of same-sex marriage, paid family leave and a $15 minimum wage?

Of course, Trump is the biggest wild card.

Many experts assert that he is less an ideologue than a dealmaker. Others say he may be sympathetic to the needs and wishes of officials in his home state. As a candidate he said he would repeal Obamacare, but he has already suggested keeping certain elements in place. He insisted he would build a wall along the Mexican border and deport undocumented immigrants, but recently said he would target only those with criminal records while allowing that a “fence” might be appropriate in certain places along the border. He has stood by his pledge to install U.S. Supreme Court justices who would overturn abortion rights, but in the next breath he cited Supreme Court precedent to argue that same-sex marriage was settled.

Taken altogether, the uncertainty has Albany bracing for what could be the most wildly unpredictable state legislative session in years.

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members in the halls of power and influence.

We have done it before, and now we must now do it again.

None of us have all the answers. But we do know that it is a different era, and there are both new challenges and new opportunities for connection that didn’t exist in previous decades.

Together, we must create new ways of bringing working people together, and new ways of showing those who may be misguided, angry, and misinformed that racism and prejudice are not the way forward, that a growing economic gap is not the way forward. We must transform and rebuild our country from within and bring all communities into a larger progressive movement that lifts up all working people: A larger progressive movement that takes the energy and learns the lessons from the Occupy Movement and Black Lives Matter and the Sanders campaign and the Fight for Fifteen. A larger progressive movement that is inclusive and diverse.

And we must remind ourselves over and over again what Dr. King so eloquently taught us: The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

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SETTING THE AGENDA

421-A TOPS LABOR AGENDA DURING 2017 SESSION

By ASHLEY HUPFL THE BIGGEST LABOR issue is close to being done before the 2017 session starts.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a deal this month between the Building and Construction Trades Council and the Real Estate Board of New York to renew the 421-a program, which provides tax incentives aimed at creating affordable housing. The program expired in January after stakeholders were unable to broker an agreement that included a prevailing wage requirement for construction workers.

The new agreement would require average wages of $60 an hour, plus benefits, for construction workers on projects in much of Manhattan that contain 300 or more rental units, and $45 an hour for similar projects on the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront. It also extends affordability requirements for an additional five years for 421-a projects, capping rent increases for 40 years. In return, tax exemptions would be in place for 35 years.

The state Legislature must approve the deal, which would pave the way for the release of $2 billion for affordable housing projects. Cuomo has urged lawmakers to return to Albany before January to approve the deal, although it’s unclear if they will.

“We want to look at it and hopefully we can get to that sooner rather than later. I don’t know how long it will take, whether we do it during a special session or whether we do it in January when we go up,” said Assemblyman Peter Abbate Jr., who chairs the Assembly Committee on Governmental Employees and serves on the Labor Committee. “I don’t think anyone’s ready to put a shovel in the ground right away, so I’d rather read it before we do anything.”

State Sen. Martin Golden, a Republican who has been serving as chairman of the Civil Service and Pensions Committee, agreed that 421a renewal is the biggest labor issue.

“I’m glad that the governor has made some agreements with the different groups, but it still

What got done — $15 minimum wage —Paid family leave — Veteran-owned farm program

has a lot of work to be done to get that passed, What’s on the agenda so that’s go— Finalize the 421-a deal ing to be one of — Rising costs of health care and fair wages for workers the priorities,” — Extending the Film Tax the Brooklyn Credit Program lawmaker said.

— Expanding digital tax credits “By letting that expire, we’ve lost over a million dollars on the streets on new construction, new jobs, new opportunities and new housing. That is lost money.”

Assembly Democrats plan to meet in the first week in December to discuss their priorities for next year’s legislative session.

Apart from any specific bills, Abbate said the conference will continue to work to help the state’s working men and women, including addressing the rising costs

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MICHAEL B. POWERS President, New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association

FRAN TURNER Director of Legislative and Political Action, CSEA

CORRECTIONS OFFICERS FACE some of the most dangerous work conditions imaginable. The threat of violence they face is very real and always present. But unfortunately, the resources to adequately keep our prisons safe have not grown accordingly to meet the needs of this mounting threat.

This past year, New York state prisons experienced record highs in violence. Assaults on prison staff increased nearly 60 percent over the last five years, hitting a record high of 895 incidents last year alone.

Inmate-on-inmate assaults, another indicator of the violence in our prisons, has increased just as rapidly, reaching roughly 900 incidents in 2015. Despite the best efforts and quick actions of corrections officers, who

have stopped one incident after another, we have also seen the discovery of contraband skyrocket by 50 percent, with over 3,600 incidents last year.

That means more and more dangerous drugs and weapons are pouring into our prisons on a daily basis, and putting our members at risk.

These figures represent a harsh reality, and all point to the need to do more to keep our prisons safe for those who work and live there. That is why NYSCOPBA has led the fight for more staffing, new equipment and technology, and training opportunities. Instead of playing the blame game – as so often happens in a media driven culture – we need a more thoughtful dialogue to address this problem and ensure the

safety of the prison system and the security of the communities in which they are located. To quell the epidemic of violence, Albany has a responsibility to chart a new course that prioritizes prison safety and truly invests in proper staffing needs, adequate training and equipment for corrections officers, as well as the newest technology to prevent violence before it starts.

Given that nothing less than the lives of our officers and inmates are at stake, we will continue to push for real investments from the state to ensure that each facility is properly staffed, and each of our members is adequately trained and equipped to deal with the violence that has infected our prisons for far too long.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN a state fails to place a priority on properly funding public services? New York state can tell you.

People lose jobs. Overtime skyrockets. Performance and on-the-job safety suffer under impossible workloads. Life-altering programs and services are cut. The most vulnerable populations across the state – young children, people with developmental disabilities, low-income families, people in abusive situations and those grappling with mental illness or substance dependency is-

sues – find it harder to access the valuable services they need to remain healthy and productive members of society.

The role of government is, in essence, to care for and make decisions in the best interests of the people it governs. Sadly, New York state’s government, under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s leadership, is failing to meet its highest and most basic calling.

Did you know that New York currently spends over $8.1 billion annually on a smattering of economic development programs? That’s an increase

of more than $1 billion, or 15 percent, since the governor was elected in 2010. Hundreds of millions of dollars were dumped into the START-UP NY initiative, which has been proven to be an economic development failure. And yet, New York state residents are being told the state doesn’t have the money to support critical services that so many people rely on every day.

Our state will continue to suffer if the interests of a select few are placed above the needs of our communities and the middle class.

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STUART APPELBAUM President, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union

THE RWDSU’S LEGISLATIVE agenda for the upcoming session in Albany is focused upon protecting retail and car wash workers in New York from exploitation.

The practice of on-call scheduling, which is prominent in retail, disrupts the lives of workers and their families. Employers require employees to call in – sometimes just hours in advance – to see if they are working that day. It’s not just a mere inconvenience; it makes scheduling child care and medical care and enrolling in school to create a better life almost impossible because workers never know when they will have open hours. And coupled with part-time jobs and insufficient hours, workers face the enor-

mous challenge of surviving when on-call scheduling makes it impossible to take a second job. Requiring workers to put their lives on hold without any guarantee of pay is wrong, and working people have a right to their own lives, and their own time, and certainty as to when they are on the job and off the clock. New York needs to pass legislation to rein in this abusive and exploitative scheduling practice.

Eliminating the so-called tip credit for New York’s car wash workers is also a legislative priority for us. The tip credit is a part of New York state’s minimum wage law that allows industry operators to pay car wash workers a different, lower minimum wage. In theory, work-

ers’ tips are supposed to make up the difference, and possibly more. And, if workers’ tips don’t raise the level of pay to at least the minimum wage, car wash employers are supposed to make up the difference in additional hourly wages.

In actual practice, it’s a flawed system that enables wage theft and contributes to systemic underpayment and exploitation of car wash workers.

Investigations have shown that employers don’t always make up the extra pay for workers when tips are short, and workers don’t always receive the tips customers presume they are getting. We shouldn’t be giving unscrupulous employers additional incentives to underpay their workers.

Support Public Services. Here’s Why:

Myth: Contracting out saves money.

REALITY: Nearly two decades of experience clearly shows that contracting out rarely saves money in the long run. Privatization may show short-run savings. But once government work is turned over to a private business, the drive to produce profits takes over and contract costs rise.

Myth: Private businesses are more efficient than the government.

REALITY: Although many people believe this, no one has ever demonstrated that it is true. But examples of inefficiency on the part of companies that contract with governments are numerous.

Myth: Quality of work under privatization is better than the work done by NYS employees.

REALITY: Quality usually decreases under privatization because contractors cut corners to reduce costs, hiring inexperienced, low-paid workers who do not get training on how to do the job right. When work is taken away from qualified public employees, the result is inferior services to the citizens of New York State.

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of health care for workers and provide fair wages for people.

“One of the other issues we’re always looking is outsourcing,” Abbate said. “My belief is that the people within the state workforce can do a better job than when we outsource it to private firms. It seems like every time we outsource something, a job doesn’t get done right, it gets delayed and there’s always a cost override.”

Other than 421-a, the labor agenda in the state Senate is up in the air. Senate Republicans are hopeful they will have a majority, but Democrats say it’s too soon to tell which party will be in power, citing a couple of close Senate races that are too close to call. Even if the GOP maintains control, it’s unclear who will chair the powerful Labor Committee next year. The current chairman is outgoing state Sen. Jack Martins, who opted not to run for re-election, instead making a failed bid for an open congressional seat on Long Island.

Golden said ensuring workers have fair health care costs and wages are top priorities as well. State Senate Republicans will also push to extend the state’s Film Tax Credit Program, which expires this year.

“We need to make sure we keep that alive,” Golden said. “That’s an industry that we’ve seen a $4 billion to $9 billion industry, hundreds of thousands of jobs, we’ve seen where there’s been a real return of investment on this tax credit.”

Golden also wants to create jobs at the Brooklyn and Staten Island waterfronts and work with higher education, including SUNY and CUNY, to create digital tax credits to allow for the industry to grow.

“We have less dollars today,” Golden said. “We’re going into a downturn in state funding, so we need to be able to build up that state funding and the way you do that is digital tax credits and other tax credits that will bring in jobs and create job energy and create a tax base from the employees.”

Regardless of who leads the Senate Labor Committee, Abbate isn’t worried about the conference obstructing the Assembly’s labor goals. “(State Senate Republicans) might say they’re not going to do it in the beginning of session, but by the end of session they sort of realize that it’s the right thing to do and they come around 90 percent of the time,” he said. “Most of our agenda does get done. Just a good example, when you looked at the minimum wage and family leave, they got done last year just when everyone was saying they wouldn’t get done. They got done.”

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ON EDUCATION, LAWMAKERS FACE THE SAME TESTS

LIKE STUDENTS REPEATING the same class year after year, state lawmakers are poised to debate key education policy matters in 2017 – mayoral control of schools, charter schools, tax credits for private schools – that are largely the same as those that came up in 2015 and 2016.

The question mark is in the state Senate, What’s on the agenda where the agenda remains unclear since con— Mayoral control extension trol of the chamber depends on the outcome — Fair and adequate funding of a couple of too-close-to-call races on Long for schools Island and the loyalties of a number of break— Student discipline reform — Expanding or eliminating away Democrats. the charter school cap If state Senate Republicans do maintain — Education Investment control, they will likely continue to pursue Tax Credit A CHARTER SCHOOL RALLY AT THE STATE CAPITOL IN 2014. their perennial goals of expanding school choice by raising or eliminating the charter school cap and passing the Education Into reduce suspensions and keep students Trump has also attacked the controversial vestment Tax Credit, a measure that would Common Core education standards. The state in school with the goal of reversing the encourage donations to both private and Education Department’s review of the edu“school-to-prison pipeline.” The legpublic schools. islation was a priority of former state cation standards and teacher evaluations is Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan, still ongoing, so those issues may stay on the Chief Judge Judith Kaye, who died in a former chairman of the Education Com- backburner until the review is completed.

January 2016. mittee, is also expected to con“In some ways there’s certain conWhile Trump cannot repeal the tinue to focus on funding. Last stant themes,” Nolan said. “We want to state’s adoption of the Common year he insisted on increasing see adequate funding and fair funding for Core standards, Assemblywoman What got done school funding enough to elimCatherine Nolan, who leads the education. There’s been some talk that — Increased funding to inate the Gap Elimination AdAssembly Education Committee, the Regents may look at some changes to eliminate the Gap Elimination Adjustment justment, a program of sharp expressed concern about what foundation aid and I want to make sure —One-year extension of education cuts imposed in the Trump’s education policy could we’re really careful in any review of that, mayoral control of schools wake of the Great Recession. because we want to do things that will mean for New York.

— Requiring lead testing in State Senate Education Comhelp the high-needs districts, obviously, “It’s a set of standards the schools’ water — Reformed the process to mittee Chairman Carl Marstates adopted. It’s not so much and be fair.” authorize and reauthorize cellino is currently involved An extension of mayoral control of about repealing it, but if they high-performing in an election recount against eliminate the department, then schools in New York City is also certain charter schools — Provided an additional his Democratic challenger and the carrots and sticks the (U.S.) to again be a contentious issue in the state $50 million in funding for did not respond to repeated Department (of Education) had Legislature. capital projects on SUNY interview requests. The initial The state has passed two one-year exto encourage people to look at and CUNY campuses state Board of Elections results Common Core will be gone,” tensions since 2015. The Assembly has showed Marcellino leading his repeatedly passed a three-year extension, she said. challenger by 2,425 votes, but Nolan said she’s also heard talk but New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Democrats have refused to concede. of a block grant program for education aid if the political foes in the Republican-controlled Even if Republicans lose the state Senate, federal agency were eliminated, and will constate Senate have not agreed to anything giving Democrats control of every major tinue to monitor the situation. beyond a one-year extension. De Blasio statewide body or office, the incoming adsupports a seven-year extension, but last In the Assembly, with its solid Democratministration of Republican President-elect ic majority, lawmakers expect to continue to year he said he would accept the AssemDonald Trump could shake things up in New emphasize such issues as school funding, a fair bly’s bill.

York. During the campaign, Trump took up distribution of that funding to schools across “Obviously I support continued mayorthe call to eliminate the U.S. Department of al control,” Nolan said, “and I think that the state, and preventing over-testing for EnEducation, a long-held goal of conservatives, glish language learners. giving Mayor de Blasio one year these last and suggested that education policy be deterAssembly Democrats also plan to keep two years was not in the best interest of mined instead at the state level. kids and education and the city.” pushing a bill introduced last year that aims

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ERNEST LOGAN President, Council of School Supervisors & Administrators

KHIZR KHAN’S SPEECH at the 2016 Democratic National Convention may already be fading from the nation’s memory. But I was in the Wells Fargo Arena as he spoke, and we should remember his speech forever.

After paying tribute to his son, Captain Humayun Khan, who died heroically in Iraq, the Pakistani immigrant pulled a copy of the U.S. Constitution from his pocket.

His simple message: an understanding of history and civic responsibility form the core of our democracy.

As an educator, I wonder how well we are communicating the basic values of democracy in our schools, especially now, following the most shocking presidential campaign of my lifetime.

We need to think about the demons that have been un-

leashed during the presidential campaign. Principals and teachers need to know the importance of having students openly discuss these issues in order to get our nation through this moment and prepare for the future.

Citizenship and history must be prime school discussion topics and mechanisms for handling division and fear. We must use troubling election issues to spur student discourse about them.

For instance, schools could distribute pocket copies of the Constitution, asking what the Bill of Rights guarantees and what the Declaration of Independence says about despots.

This could lead to discussions about the separation of powers and how the judicial system works.

It’s hard to wrap our minds around this, but some of our students have almost no idea what the Holocaust, Soviet Communism, slavery and Jim Crow were. When these historical realities fade from the public consciousness, the crazies come creeping out: Holocaust deniers, slavery revisionists.

Reminders that these events are factual help new generations understand that there are historical precedents for making Muslim Americans carry identity cards, and for mass incarceration along racial lines.

The next generation of voters – and leaders – is sitting in our classrooms. It’s up to us to prepare them not only to vote, but to do so from a place of knowledge. Students have that right, no matter what their religion, race or ethnicity.

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STATE SEN. KEMP HANNON, STATE HEALTH COMMISSIONER HOWARD ZUCKER AND ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARD GOTTFRIED COULD CONFRONT MAJOR CHANGES IN 2017.

ON HEALTH CARE, LAWMAKERS BRACING FOR CHANGES ON OBAMACARE, ABORTION

By JEREMY UNGER

THIS PAST YEAR has to be considered a big success on the health front for New York progressives. Paid family leave was signed into law, the tampon tax was repealed and hundreds of thousands of people signed up for coverage under the state health care exchange for the first time. But despite all of those accomplishments, 2017 for Democrats looks to be less about making progressive gains and more about defending their turf in the wake of Donald Trump’s surprising presidential election victory, a Republican Congress and a split state Senate.

With Trump signaling that he will at-

tempt to repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act, New York Democrats are rushing to prepare alternatives for the 2.8 million New Yorkers insured on the New York State of Health marketplace as well as deal with a potentially massive budget hole of up to $800 million.

The potential budget shortfall stems from the state’s use of a “basic health plan” under the Affordable Care Act, which provides heavily subsidized insurance from the federal government to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who do not qualify for Medicaid. Assemblyman Richard Gottfried sees

the potential budget deficit as one of the most important issues New York officials will have to confront in regards to the Trump presidency. One option Gottfried suggested may be used to help solve the shortfall would be to increase the cap on state Medicaid spending, which currently sits at $17.7 billion, according to the state Department of Health. However, the differing start times for the new legislative and congressional sessions could make it harder to figure out how big the budget gap will be.

“We will not know for sure what the

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thanks the members of the

NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE for their support of hospitals and the patients they serve.

We welcome newly elected members and look forward to a continued partnership on important health care issues facing

communities across New York. Together, we can ensure that New York’s hospitals remain the best in the nation.

–Kenneth E. Raske, President, GNYHA

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Gottfried said. “I certainly don’t know what the governor will do (in his annual budget proposal), and I’m not sure he has made a decision on that.�

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JILL FURILLO Executive Director, New York State Nurses Association

LAST SESSION, the Assembly voted in overwhelming numbers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 108 in favor - to pass the Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act. This bill provides that a minimum number of nurses be assigned to patients at all times, a so-called nurse-to-patient ratio law.

The Act is fundamentally about equality in health care for all New Yorkers, because with this law comes a guarantee of safe staffing levels in every hospital, in every county, for all patients.

The simple fact is that having enough RNs on staff in the various hospital units saves patient lives, reduces hospital stays and saves money.

In one peer-review study after another, safe staffing has been shown to have fundamentally positive consequences on

patient care. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the odds of patient death increases by 7 percent for each additional patient the nurse must take on at one time. In another JAMA study, hospitals routinely staffed with 1:8 nurse ratios experienced five additional deaths per thousand patients.

Data reveal that hospitals with lower nursing staffing levels have higher rates of pneumonia, shock, cardiac arrest, urinary tract infections and upper gastrointestinal bleeds.

These conditions lead to longer hospital stays and higher costs.

Nurses have pressed their case on several grounds, not the least of which is their ethical obligation to advocate for their patients. Indeed, RN licensure in New York state is linked to

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this ethical obligation.

What nurses are reporting is severe overcrowding and swelling patient caseloads. This is not the case on every unit in every hospital, but in so many facilities that a law setting safe standards is needed to guarantee safety and quality care for patients.

The reports, together with conversations had by nurses with legislators last spring, proved enormously persuasive.

In 2017, nurses and our supporters among patients, families and public health experts in the communities, will return to Albany. This time it is our hope and expectation that the vote will again pass the Assembly, reach the Senate and pass there, too, and a bill will be signed by the governor, making safe staffing the law of the land.

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PROTESTERS RALLY AGAINST OBAMACARE.

can now comfortably move to expand it,” Gottfried said.

In the upper house, state Sen. Kemp Hannon, the chairman of the Senate

KEN RASKE President, Greater New York Hospital Association

on prescription practices, established education requirements for prescribers and increased access to addiction-curing medicaWhat’s on the agenda tions. Hannon is looking — Addressing $800 million at the success of drug budget shortfall if courts and their expanObamacare is repealed sion, as well increasing —Codifying Roe v. Wade in state law funding for drug and —Expanding medical addiction education. marijuana to cover more “There were 89,269 diseases heroin and prescription opioid treatment admissions in New York state in 2013, an increase from 63,739 in 2004,” Hannon said in a recent press release. “During that same time period Nassau County admissions alone went from 2,120 to 4,222. We need to curtail the alarming rise in the use of heroin and other opioids.”

Other potential items on the agenda include restricting the rising prices of prescription drugs and easing ownership restrictions on retail health clinics. And as always, Gottfried is still pushing for Health Committee, is exploring additional the New York Health Act, a single-payer steps to address the opioid epidemic in New health care plan which has passed in the Assembly in the last two sessions but has York. Hannon helped push through a bill stalled repeatedly in the state Senate. last session that placed greater restrictions

THE NEWLY SEATED Legislature will face a number of complex health care issues in 2017. Hospitals and health care providers across the state continue to transform the delivery system while tackling challenging payment reforms handed down from the federal and state levels. While transformation is necessary, we implore the Legislature to avoid exacerbating an already challenging environment by placing more cost pressures on hospitals and health systems.

New York providers already face the highest medical liability costs in the nation. Rising drug prices, increasing labor costs, and burdensome quality reporting requirements are squeezing hospitals already on the brink of financial collapse.

State government mandates, including the recently enacted

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CARE Act and the safe patient handling law, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2017, among others, while certainly worthy in their intent, are just a few added to myriad mandates passed by the Legislature each year.

These mandates are piled on top of federal mandates which hospitals must comply with. Indeed, New York hospitals face significant revenue pressures, including considerable federal Medicare and Medicaid cuts and state Medicaid cuts and reimbursement rates that have not been increased in a decade.

The 2016 election has created considerable uncertainty on critical health care issues, including possible repeal of the Affordable Care Act and significant changes to the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

New York’s hospitals serve the most diverse patient mix in

the country, providing arguably the finest care in the nation.

New York state government must support our hospitals by not passing new laws that further increase costs. Specifically, misguided legislation requiring mandated nurse staffing ratios and increased medical malpractice costs are fiercely opposed by the hospital industry.

There is no doubt that New York’s hospitals and health systems employ the best nurses and physicians who provide the finest care to every patient who enters their doors daily regardless of ability to pay. They know best how to staff their hospitals to meet their patient needs. We ask the Legislature to join us in opposing burdensome, costly mandates and laws that will negatively impact hospitals’ ability to care for their patients.

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THANKS TO THE NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY FOR ITS VOTE IN PASSING THE

SAFE STAFFING FOR QUALITY CARE ACT We look forward to another vote in the Assembly in 2017 in favor of this essential legislation and a winning vote in the Senate too!

To bring safe, quality healthcare to all New Yorkers!

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SHARING OR SMEARING? AIRBNB’S DIRTY TACTICS FALL SHORT

KRISTINE PALMER

By NICOLE GELINAS

STATE SEN. SUE SERINO WON RE-ELECTION WITH 53 PERCENT OF THE VOTE.

veryone was on tenterhooks late on election night waiting for the outcome of a critically important race: Would Republican state Sen. Sue Serino keep her Hudson Valley seat, despite an influx of special interest spending against her? Yes, she did – and all joking aside, the result is important for the future.

The “special interest” in this case was Airbnb, one of the marquee brands of the self-styled “sharing” economy. In this race, Airbnb showed that it can play dirty politics as unabashedly as anyone in the old political and business worlds – but also showed that, sometimes, dirty politics lose out against reasoned policy debate.

Two weeks before the election, residents

in Serino’s district got flyers in their mailboxes warning them that to vote for Serino would be to vote for environmental disaster. “VOTE NO ON SUE SERINO SO WHAT HAPPENED IN HOOSICK DOESN’T HAPPEN HERE,” the mailing instructed.

“Hoosick” refers to Hoosick Falls, a town in upstate New York where industrial pollution had contaminated its water supply. But Hoosick Falls is not in Serino’s district, and Serino had nothing to do with the regulatory failures that led to people there drinking unsafe water. The flyer didn’t explain how Serino is putting people in danger.

That was no surprise. The people who paid for the mailing weren’t clean water experts. The attack ad came, without saying

so, from Airbnb, the multinational company that helps people rent houses, apartments and spare rooms to tourists.

Airbnb claimed it cared about the water because its “hosts” – its soft-focus term for people who use its website to engage in real-estate rental transactions with strangers – in the Hudson Valley care about the water.

A more likely reason? Serino had recently voted for a new state law that makes it easier for New York City to enforce its longstanding ban on people renting out apartments on a short-term basis, turning them into illegal hotel rooms. The law attaches fines to what have long been violations of state and city zoning and occupancy

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codes. The new monetary penalty should serve as a deterrent, easing the burden for regulators.

Airbnb could have done what the tech industry is supposed to help us all do: “disrupt” traditional politics – which is, let’s be honest, often a lot of distractions and distortions – and instead stick to the pragmatic facts.

It could have sent fliers explaining its position on the issue, and why it thought Serino was wrong, and Airbnb did have an ad targeting Serino on her vote. But that ad, too, was misleading. It didn’t make a distinction between suburban single-family “homeowners,” which the law doesn’t cover, and urban apartment renters, which it does.

When it wasn’t using diversion tactics during this election, Airbnb obfuscated for a good reason: It had a weak case. The company’s most sympathetic argument is that some New Yorkers need the money from short-term rentals to pay the bills. In reality, though, if one believes in efficient economics and acknowledges that New York has a scarce housing market, converting tens of thousands of apartments into more lucrative hotel rooms pushes up the rent (and condo prices) for everyone.

It also creates chaos in medium-sized and large buildings, whose security guards have no idea who belongs and who doesn’t. And it is a violation of almost all residential leases. Residential property owners’ business model – enshrined in straightforward law rather than fought through tens of thousands of individual lawsuits against tenants – is long-term housing, not hoteliering.

Airbnb didn’t invent dirty politics.

But it was dispiriting that the supposedly feel-good company was so willing to play the game. That’s particularly true because Airbnb’s business model itself worsens the economic anxiety that helped drive voters toward Donald Trump.

New York is hardly a red-state city. But just as coal miners in West Virginia are afraid of the effects of deindustrialization on their livelihood, working-class and middle-class New Yorkers are afraid of being priced out of their apartments and that their children will have no choice but to leave the city. In fact, new Census data show that poorer and work-

ing-class residents of rich cities are already leaving in droves. Though it’s hard to know exactly what to do about this, Airbnb doesn’t help matters while cities try to figure it out.

Those non-rich people who remain in high-cost cities are afraid that a record number of global tourists – including, yes, millions of newly middle-class and upper-class people from the lower-wage countries that have helped put pressure on American jobs and income – are changing their city, and fast. And they doubt that the world’s economic elites, including tech giants such as Airbnb, are on their side.

Airbnb blamed “special interests” for its Albany defeat. But the real problem for Airbnb is that democracy worked as it should. Lawmakers, including Serino, responded to city residents’ concerns about the high cost of housing by protecting permanent housing for residents, not for tourists.

Airbnb did not like the democratic result, which is understandable. It has business interests to protect. But it is one thing to disagree with lawmakers and to argue, respectfully and on the facts, for a different outcome. It is another thing to help “hosts” openly flout the law while bullying a lawmaker on an entirely unrelated issue: voters’ anxiety about polluted water.

These tactics are uncivil – and Airbnb used them to advocate for policies that would make voters even more economically anxious.

The good news? Voters didn’t go for it. Serino won 53 percent of the vote to her opponent’s 42. What was supposed to be a close contest – and was a close contest two years ago – really wasn’t. There are lots of reasons for that: She had an incumbent’s advantage, for one, in an election in which Republicans did well nationwide. Still, it is good news that for now, lumbering old democracy can still win out over fast, new tech, even when tech uses the worst tactics of that lumbering old democracy.

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Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. She is on Twitter at @nicolegelinas.

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SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC 1412 Broadway FL 21, New York NY 10018. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Aimsley Management Group LLC. Articles of Notice of formation of JAE Organization filed with Tech, LLC. Art. of Org. filed the Secretary of State of w/ Secy. of State of State NY (SSNY) on 9/12/2016. of NY (SSNY) on 10/4/16.

Office location: NEW Office location: NY County.

YORK County. SSNY has SSNY designated as agent been designated as agent for service of process. upon whom process SSNY shall mail process to against it may be served.

155 E. 49th St. #6B, NY, NY The Post Office address 10016. Purpose: Any lawful to which the SSNY shall activity. mail a copy of any process against the LLC served

upon him/her is: Aimee Notice of Qualification of Berger. The principal ATLAS ASSET ADVISORS business address of the LLC Appl. for Auth. filed LLC is: 225 E 34th St. Apt with Secy. of State of NY 8J NY NY 10016 Purpose: (SSNY) on 10/19/16. Office any lawful act or activity. location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/10/16. Princ. office of LLC: 1251 Ave. of the Americas, Ste. 4600, NY, NY 10020. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Notice of Qualification of Townsend Bldg., 401 Law Offices of Morton & Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, Associates LLLP. Auth.

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NY (SSNY) on 10/20/16. bus. addr. of LLLP: 246 W. Office location: NY County.

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(DE) on 05/19/16. SSNY State (SSNY) 10/12/16.

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Properties which may be E. 4th St., Apt. 9, NY, NY Office: NY County. SSNY 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, of the Commonwealth, affected by the proposed 10009. Purpose: Any designated agent upon regd. agent upon whom 401 N. Street, Rm. 206, undertaking. If you would lawful activity. whom process may be process may be served.

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DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Purpose: Any lawful information regarding 200 E. 69th St. 26A NY, Orange St., Wilmington, activity. potential effects that the Notice of Formation of NY 10021. Purpose: Any DE 19801. Cert. of Form. proposed undertaking Galilean Technologies lawful act. filed with DE Sec. of State, might have to properties LLC. Art. of Org. filed with 401 Federal St., Dover, DE Notice of Formation of that are listed on or eligible Secretary of State of NY 19901. Purpose: all lawful for listing in the National (SSNY) on 7/26/2016.

215 MOORE STREET Notice of Formation of purposes.

Register of Historic Places Office Location: New York MEZZANINE LENDER Plate & Glass, LLC filed County. SSNY designated and located within 1/2 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on August mile of the site, please agent upon whom process with Secy. of State of Notice of formation of 23, 2016. Office: New York submit the comments may be served and shall NY (SSNY) on 11/10/16.

Minyworldwide LLC Arts County. SSNY designated (with project number) to: mail copy of process Office location: NY County. of Org. filed with Secy. as agent of the LLC upon RAMAKER, Contractor for against the LLC to principal SSNY designated as of State of NY (SSNY) on whom process against SPRINT, 855 Community business address: 511 agent of LLC upon whom 11/08/16. Office location: it may be served. SSNY Dr, Sauk City, WI 53583 47th Ave Ste 8H, LIC, NY process against it may be NY County.

SSNY shall mail copy of process or via e-mail to history@ 11101 Purpose: any lawful served. SSNY shall mail designated as agent of to the LLC, 82 Irving Place, ramaker.com within 30 act or activity. process to Corporation LLC upon whom process 1B, New York, NY 10003. days of this notice.

Service Co., 80 State St.,

against it may be served.

Purpose: any lawful act or Albany, NY 12207, regd.

SSNY shall mail process activity.

Notice of Formation of to :The LLC, 200 Riverside agent upon whom and Notice of Auction Sale is Frontline Digital LLC Art. at which process may Blvd ste 26E, New York, herein given that Access of Org. filed with SSNY Notice of Qualification be served. Purpose: Any NY 10069. Purpose: any Self Storage of Long on September 15, 2016. of A&E QUEENS lawful activity. lawful activity.

Island City located at 29Office: New York County.

PORTFOLIO III MGMT, 00 Review Avenue, Long SSNY designated as LLC Appl. for Auth. filed Island City, N.Y. 11101 agent of the LLC upon Notice of Qualification REDWOOD ROAD with Secy. of State of will take place on WWW. whom process against of ARTMATR, LLC Appl.

FUNDING LLC. Art. of Org. NY (SSNY) on 10/31/16.

STORAGETREASURES. it may be served. SSNY for Auth. filed with Secy. filed with the SSNY on Office location: NY County.

COM Sale by competitive shall mail copy of process of State of NY (SSNY) 03/22/16. Office: New York LLC formed in Delaware bidding starting on to the LLC, 7 East 14th on 11/08/16.

Office County. SSNY designated (DE) on 09/13/16. SSNY December 6, 2016 and Street, #812, New York, location: NY County. as agent of the LLC upon designated as agent of end on December 16, NY 10003. Purpose: Any LLC formed in Colorado whom process against LLC upon whom process 2016 at 12:00 p.m. to lawful purpose.

(CO) on 09/21/16. SSNY it may be served. SSNY against it may be served. satisfy unpaid rent and designated as agent of shall mail copy of process SSNY shall mail process charges on the following LLC upon whom process to the LLC, c/o Hirshmark to the LLC, Attn: Maggie accounts: Contents of against it may be served.

Capital LLC, 15 West 26th McCormick, 1065 Ave. rooms generally contain SSNY shall mail process Street, Suite 901, New of the Americas, NY, NY misc. Household goods to the CO addr. of the York, NY 10010, which is 10018. DE addr. of LLC: and other effects.

LLC: 410 17th Ste. 2200, also the registered agent Corporation Service Co., #2412-Katty Villacorta, Denver, CO 80202. Cert. of address. Purpose: Any 2711 Centerville Rd., #2448Avery Bock, Form. filed with CO Secy. lawful purpose.

Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE #4425-Kerry Brothers, of State, 1700 Broadway, 19808. Cert. of Form. filed

#48181-Sabrina Wood.

Ste. 200, Denver, CO with State of DE, Secy. of Notice of Formation of The contents of each unit 80209.

Purpose: Any State, Div. of Corps., 401 NEW YORK CWB, LLC will be sold as a lot and all lawful activity.

Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. items must be removed DE 19901. Purpose: Any of State of NY (SSNY) on from the premises within lawful activity.

WirelessCo, L.P. dba 10/31/16. Office location: 72 hours. Owners may Sprint (SPRINT) proposes NY County.

SSNY redeem their goods by antenna and equipment designated as agent of Notice of Qualification paying all rent and charges ADVERTISE HERE upgrades atop 4 buildings LLC upon whom process of AssuredPartners OF due at any time before the in Albany, Albany County,

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