File #: Int 0695-2008    Version: * Name: Requiring that one of the members of the Board of Standards and Appeals be a financial analyst with professional qualifications and at least ten years’ experience as a financial analyst.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Governmental Operations
On agenda: 2/13/2008
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring that one of the members of the Board of Standards and Appeals be a financial analyst with professional qualifications and at least ten years’ experience as a financial analyst.
Sponsors: Tony Avella, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, Darlene Mealy, Rosie Mendez, Larry B. Seabrook
Council Member Sponsors: 6

Int. No. 695

By Council Members Avella, Gentile, James, Mealy, Mendez and Seabrook

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring that one of the members of the Board of Standards and Appeals be a financial analyst with professional qualifications and at least ten years’ experience as a financial analyst. 

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

§1.  Subdivision b of section 659 of the charter of the city of New York, as added by local law 49 of 1991, is amended to read as follows:

b. One of the members shall be a planner with professional qualifications and at least ten years' experience as a planner. One of the members shall be a registered architect and shall have had at least ten years' experience as an architect. One of the members shall be a licensed professional engineer and shall have had at least ten years' experience as an engineer.  One of the members shall be a financial analyst with professional qualifications and at last ten years’ experience as a financial analyst. The mayor shall designate one of the members, who shall have the required experience as an architect, planner, [or as an] engineer or as a financial analyst, to serve as chair and shall designate one of the members to serve as vice-chair, who shall act as chair in the absence of the chair or in the event that a vacancy exists in the office of chair. Of the members, no more than two shall be residents of any one borough.

§2.  This local law shall take effect on the first day of the month following its ratification by the voters of this city in a referendum to be held in the general election next following its enactment.

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