File #: Res 0606-2010    Version: * Name: Board of Elections to provide data to be included in the Mayor’s Management Report and to make such data available to the public on the Board’s website.
Type: Resolution Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Governmental Operations
On agenda: 12/20/2010
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: Resolution urging the Board of Elections to provide data to be included in the Mayor’s Management Report and to make such data available to the public on the Board’s website.
Sponsors: Brad S. Lander, Gale A. Brewer, Fernando Cabrera , Daniel Dromm , Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, Rosie Mendez, Annabel Palma, Albert Vann, Jumaane D. Williams, Daniel J. Halloran III, Peter A. Koo
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Res. No. 606
 
 
Resolution urging the Board of Elections to provide data to be included in the Mayor's Management Report and to make such data available to the public on the Board's website.
 
 
By Council Members Lander, Brewer, Cabrera, Dromm, Gentile, James, Mendez, Palma, Vann, Williams, Halloran and Koo
 
      Whereas, It is vital that City officials and members of the public have access to information regarding the performance of the Board of Elections ("Board") following election events; and
      Whereas, The Preliminary Mayor's Management Report and the Mayor's Management Report, mandated by Section 12 of the New York City Charter, provide important information on the performance of city agencies and allow City officials and members of the public to evaluate the performance of such agencies; and
       Whereas, The City Council and the Mayor have called on the Board to provide information to be included in such reports in areas including machine breakdown rates, repair response times, poll site accessibility, poll site wait times and poll site opening times; and
Whereas, The Board has refused to provide such information for inclusion in the Preliminary Mayor's Management Report and Mayor's Management Report; and
Whereas; Such performance information should also be made available to the general public on the Board's website; now, therefore, be it
      Resolved, That the Council of the City of New York urges the Board of Elections to provide data to be included in the Mayor's Management Report and to make such data available to the public on the Board's website.
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