BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:NYC Election Day 2025 DTSTAMP:20251104T210948Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:578-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n I have said the following so many times\, it sickens me. What matters isn't winning the election. What matters is what you do once elected.\n\n\n\n Obama/Olhan/Ocasio Cortez are all the same. They were ele cted based on demographic changes and their party of andrew jackson (POAJ)   peers not realizing the demographic changes or underestimating the abil ity to generate a large voting output. \n\n\n\n Mamdani is the same\, as the three mentioned. But\, the key is after you win what will you do?\n\n\ n\n Obama gave the banking industry a pass and didn't demand from the heal th industry and the results were negative. Olhan + Ocasico Cortez tried a green new deal that was dysfunctional. Now Mamdani promises to lower the c ost of living while being a mayor who doesn't have the ability to. Do peop le really think Eric Adams/Bill DeBlasio/ even Bloomberg wouldn't have lik ed to make NYC more affordable while doing all of what they did. It isn't because they didn't care or know\, it is because it is not about the mayor alone. And the governor has a whole state to deal with who will not accep t favors for NYC absent favors for albany and all others in the state.\n\n \n\n Mamdani as I said a long time ago will be mayor of NYC\, the first as ian/muslim/even one of the generation names as he is 34 but he will have a terrible time at it\, and what happens next? \n\n\n\n The key to me is w ill the voters who vote now vote four years from now with the same gusto. I think many will. Not because of Mamdani but demographic shifts. It isn't an accident that Mamdani is in his 30s and Sliwa and Cuomo are in their 6 0s. The 40s and 50s are the non believers. But the 30s and youngers in the city are the children of immigrants in a city now mostly of immigrant sto ck. The native american is dead. The old whites have moved out or died les sening their population. The Black Descended of Enslaved have moved out or died lessening their population. Leaving Immigrants and their children. P Eople who came to a USA much different than before founded or when founded or during the war between the states or during the great white european i mperial war. The modern immigrant came to the USA built by FDR/MLK and com pany. A USA full of biases but safe\, secure\, allowing for individualism unlike any country in humanity. and so\, in 2025\, the modern immigrant po pulace starting in 1965\, has become large enough to stake a claim. It is a claim of ideals. A claim of the USA. Not the USA that murdered the First Peoples. Not the USA designed by White Europeans for their sole benefit. Not the USA built on enslaved Black folk. The USA with the potential to be a human country. And while every reformation has a counterreformation\, a nd the fifty states are not the same\, and no city in the USA is like NYC. I think in NYC the claim of the immigrant populace\, a true rainbow of in dividuals bound to the allowance of individualism over religion/phenotype/ gender/language/....maybe age/individual allowance will be a different vot ing block. Will it mean Mamdani does great as mayor? no. Being great in a bureaucracy like any team activity isn't about one person. Schrumpft will make it very hard. But\, a claim will be made and two USA's  I argue are officially born. \n\n\n\n Mamdani on one side/SCrumpft on the other. \n\ n\n\n  \n\n\n\n mamdani legislation\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event /363-zohran-mamdani-legislation/\n\n\n\n problem with legislators in the u sa\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/499-the-problem-with-legislators- in-the-usa/\n\n\n\n bernie sanders\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/5 04-bernie-sanders-is-a-fiscal-capitalistic-opportunist/\n\n\n\n The latest Economic Corner\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/569-economic-corner -25/\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Fran Lebowitz joins ‘On Stage’ for a sharp and unfiltered conversation\n\n https://ny1.com/nyc/a ll-boroughs/on-stage-episodes/2025/10/31/fran-lebowitz-joins--on-stage--fo r-a-sharp-and-unfiltered-conversation\n\n\n\n Some thoughts\n\n She found it interesting\, that people in Stockhom Sweden were interested in the may oral race in New York City. \n\n I concur that people like new faces. Oba ma/Schrumpt/Mamdani all used the position of one who . \n\n She didn't vo te for Mamdani though praised him. She admitted what I said\, you can't ma ke free buses. Mamdani's stated positions don't fit. \n\n She made an int eresting point on New York City\, she likes NYC because this is the only c ity where all are able to live in it. She is correct. NYC has become this city of mostly individuals devoutly or modestly within a country of hardco re tribes. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n PROPOSITIONS 1/2/3/4/5\n\n\n\n MY THOUGHTS \n\n 1 New York City is not part of Essex county\, I don't comprehend why NYC is voting on Essex county which is at the northernmost part of the sta te.\n\n 2+3+4 I have lived through the Real Estate industry of NYC and I c an say with 100% surety that the real estate industry is the most wicked o r ugly thing I have ever seen. I really despise the real estate industry i n NYC and these three propositions don't lower the damn rent\, nor do they punish the real estate industry for the crimes it has done. \n\n 5 No on e explains how the DEpartment of City Planning will consider all the borou ghs... the reason why each Borouch has its own mapping plan is the borough s aren't the same\, they have different peoples\, different situations...  \n\n 6 I think instead of changing the date of elections it is better fo r the elected officials of NEw York City to simply get results\, which 99% of them never do. They make a ton of laws and make a ton of speeches.\n\n \n\n  \n\n\n\n SHORT EXPLANATION\n\n\n\n Ballot proposal No. 1\nAmendment to allow Olympics sports complex in Essex County on state forest preserve land.\n\nThis proposal\, to be voted on across New York state\, would all ow the expansion of new ski trails in the Olympic Sports Complex in Essex County\, New York. The Olympic Sport Complex is in state forest preserve l and. This proposal would also require New York State to add 2\,500 acres o f protected forest land to Adirondack Park. \n\nBallot proposal No. 2\nFa st-track affordable housing to building more affordable housing across the city.\n\nThis proposal would create two new processes to fast-track certa in affordable housing projects. The first process is for publicly financed affordable housing projects. The second process is for affordable housing projects in the 12 community districts with the lowest rates of affordabl e housing development. \n\nA “yes” vote creates two processes to fast -track affordable housing projects. \n\nA “no” vote keeps the seven-m onth review process\, with input from the local Community Board\, local Bo rough President\, CPC\, City Council\, and mayor. \n\nBallot proposal No. 3\nSimplify review of modest housing and infrastructure projects. \n\nTh is proposal would create a faster review process for certain land use proj ects\, like smaller projects to change how land is used and to prepare the city for extreme weather or other future challenges. For most of these pr ojects\, the proposed process would remove final review by the City Counci l. \n\nBallot proposal No. 4\nEstablish an Affordable Housing Appeals Boa rd with City Council\, borough\, and citywide representation. \n\nNYCVote s says this proposal would change the current land use review process when the City Council rejects or changes an affordable housing project. The pr oposal would create an Affordable Housing Appeals Board comprised of the l ocal Borough President\, Speaker of the City Council\, and mayor.\n\nThe p roposal would allow the Appeals Board to reverse the City Council’s deci sion with a two-to-one vote. \n\nBallot proposal No. 5\nCreate a digital city map to modernize city operations.\n\nThis proposal would make the Dep artment of City Planning (DCP) responsible for creating\, maintaining\, an d digitizing a single city map.\n\nBallot proposal No. 6\nMove local elect ions to presidential election years to increase voter participation. \n\n This proposal would move election dates for city offices to the same year as federal presidential elections. \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n DETAILS\n\n \n\n 2025 General Election \nBALLOT PROPOSALS\nABSTRACT OF PROPOSAL NUMBER ONE\, AN AMENDMENT\n Amendment to Allow Olympic Sports Complex In Essex C ounty on State Forest \nPreserve Land\n The proposal amends the State Cons titution. It permits new Nordic ski and \nbiathlon trails in the forest pr eserve. Development there requires Constitutional \npermission. That is be cause the facility is in the Adirondack forest preserve. It is \npart of a n Olympic Sports Complex in North Elba. North Elba is in Essex County\, \n New York. The project touches up to 323 acres. The facility covers 1\,039 acres. \nThis use is offset. 2\,500 new acres are added to the forest pres erve. The New York \nLegislature must approve the offset. If not\, the pro ject will not happen.\n FORM OF SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL NUMBER ONE\, AN AME NDMENT\n Amendment to Allow Olympic Sports Complex In Essex County on Stat e Forest \nPreserve Land\n Allows skiing and related trail facilities on s tate forest preserve land. The site is \n1\,039 acres. Requires State to a dd 2\,500 acres of new forest land in Adirondack \nPark.\n A yes vote auth orizes new ski trails and related facilities in the Adirondack forest \npr eserve.\n A no vote does not authorize this use.\n 1\nQuestion 2\n Propose d Charter Amendment: Fast Track Affordable Housing to Build More Affordabl e \nHousing Across the City\n Fast track publicly financed affordable hous ing. Fast track applications delivering affordable \nhousing in the commun ity districts that produce the least affordable housing\, significantly \n reducing review time. Maintain Community Board review.\n “Yes” fast tr acks applications at the Board of Standards and Appeals or City Planning \ nCommission. “No” leaves affordable housing subject to longer review a nd final decision at City \nCouncil. \n2\nBallot Question 2\n Proposed Cha rter Amendment: Fast Track Affordable Housing to Build \nMore Affordable H ousing Across the City\n Abstract\n This proposal would create two new fas t-track public processes for affordable \nhousing: the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) Zoning Action for Affordable \nHousing Projects and the Affordable Housing Fast Track. \nFirst\, the proposal would enable publicl y financed affordable housing to be \napproved by the BSA after review by the affected Community Board. BSA would \nbe required to make findings rel ating to neighborhood character and programmatic \nnecessity. \nSecond\, t he amendment would establish an expedited land use review process\nwith re view by the affected Community Board\, affected Borough President\, and \n the City Planning Commission– for zoning changes that deliver affordable \nhousing in the 12 community districts with the lowest rate of affordabl e housing\n production.\n BSA Zoning Action for Affordable Housing Project s\n How it works: Currently\, the BSA has the power to waive zoning requir ements to \nfacilitate certain affordable housing developments\, but that authority is limited to \nprojects that can meet stringent standards relat ing to hardship\, uniqueness\, and \neconomic infeasibility. Projects that cannot meet these standards instead must go \nthrough the Uniform Land Us e Review Procedure (ULURP) – a seven-month\n review process that begins with advisory opinions from the affected Community \nBoard and Borough Pre sident\, followed by review and votes at the City Planning \nCommission an d City Council.\n This proposal would empower the BSA to issue project-spe cific approvals for \npublicly financed affordable housing that meet the r equired findings after a 60-day \nreview by the affected Community Board a nd a 30-day review with a public \nhearing held by the BSA. Projects that do not meet the findings may receive one \n60-day extension for additional studies or project modifications to seek approval at \na second hearing. \nWhat types of housing are eligible: This new action would be available t o \ncompanies organized exclusively to develop housing projects for person s of low \n3\nincome\, including Housing Development Fund Companies– the legal vehicle for \nvirtually all publicly financed affordable housing pr ojects in New York City. \nWhat factors must the Board of Standards and Ap peals consider: In order to \napprove affordable housing pursuant to the f ast-track process\, the BSA would be \nrequired to make findings related t o neighborhood character and programmatic \nnecessity. The first finding e nsures the project does not clash with the surrounding\n neighborhood char acter. The second finding establishes that a project requires \nzoning wai vers in order to proceed and that the City or another governmental entity\ n intends to provide financial backing. \nAffordable Housing Fast-Track\n How it works: Currently\, affordable housing is produced unevenly througho ut the \nCity\, with 12 community districts adding as much housing as the other 47 \ncombined over the course of the last 10 years. To address this\ , the Affordable \nHousing Fast Track proposal creates an expedited approv al process for projects \nthat deliver affordable housing in the community districts that produce the least\n affordable housing. Under the proposal \, the City would assess the rate of \naffordable housing production in ea ch community district every five years\, and \nthen fast-track projects th at include permanently affordable housing in the 12 \nCommunity Districts with the lowest such rates. \nThese 12 Community Districts would be calcul ated by measuring the total number \nof affordable dwelling units created over the past five years divided by the total \nnumber of all dwelling uni ts at the start of the five-year period. This formula \nmeasures the growt h rate of affordable housing. Those twelve community districts \nwould be determined by the Department of City Planning every five years.\n What typ es of applications are eligible: To be eligible for this fast-track \nproc edure\, an application must include permanent affordable housing under the \nCity’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program and must be located in one of the \ntwelve community districts with the lowest rate of affordable housing production. \nThe Department of City Planning would be required t o confirm that a primary \npurpose of the application is to facilitate add itional housing and affordable \nhousing. \nWhat is the new process for re viewing these affordable housing rezoning \napplications: \n4\nToday\, rez oning applications typically go through ULURP– a seven-month review \npr ocess that begins with successive advisory opinions from the affected \nCo mmunity Board and Borough President\, followed by review and votes at the \nCity Planning Commission and City Council.\n The proposed amendment woul d include the same opportunity for Community \nBoard review as exists toda y\, but with Borough President review occurring \nconcurrently. The City P lanning Commission would have 30 days to review– or \n45 days for applic ations that require more extensive environmental review – and \nhold a f inal vote. (This element of the proposal would become effective if this \n ballot question is approved\, regardless of whether ballot question 3\, wh ich also \nproposes an expedited land use review procedure\, is approved.) \n In determining whether to approve such a rezoning application\, the Cit y Planning \nCommission would be required to make findings regarding the a dequacy of \nexisting transportation\, sewer and other infrastructure\, as well as consistency with \nthe City’s fair housing plan (the Charter al ready requires the City to develop such a \nplan to analyze citywide data relating to fair housing).\n The proposal would also require the Departmen t of City Planning and the Office of \nManagement and Budget to consider t he list of the 12 Community Districts that \nproduce the least affordable housing and the fair housing plan in the preparation of \nthe City’s pre liminary 10-year capital strategy.\n Implementation: This proposed amendme nt would take effect immediately.\n 5\nQuestion 3\n Proposed Charter Amend ment: Simplify Review of Modest Housing and Infrastructure Projects\n Simp lify review of modest amounts of additional housing and minor infrastructu re projects\, \nsignificantly reducing review time. Maintain Community Boa rd review\, with final decision by \nthe City Planning Commission.\n “ Yes” simplifies review for limited land-use changes\, including modest h ousing and minor \ninfrastructure projects. “No” leaves these changes subject to longer review\, with final decision by \nCity Council.\n 6\nBal lot Question 3\n Proposed Charter Amendment: Simplify Review of Modest Hou sing and \nInfrastructure Projects\n Abstract\n This proposal would create an Expedited Land Use Review Procedure (ELURP) \nfor certain land use cha nges and projects\, including modest increases in housing \ncapacity\; acq uisitions\, dispositions\, and certain City Map changes related to \naffor dable housing\; and infrastructure and resiliency projects\, like raising the grade \nof a street and adding solar panels on public property. \nHow it works: Currently\, rezoning applications and other land use actions\, \ nregardless of size\, must go through the City’s Uniform Land Use Review \nProcedure (ULURP)– a seven-month review process that begins with advi sory \nopinions from the affected Community Board and Borough President\, followed by \nreview and votes at the City Planning Commission and City Co uncil. \nThis proposal would create an alternative procedure for certain r ezoning \napplications and other land-use actions. This new process would retain the same \n60-day review period for the Community Boards and a publ ic hearing\, with \nconcurrent Borough President review. The City Planning Commission would then\n have 30 days to hold a public hearing and vote on the application. The City \nPlanning Commission’s decision would be fin al\, with no subsequent review by the \nCity Council.\n For dispositions o f City property to Housing Development Fund Companies – the \nentity for virtually all publicly financed affordable housing projects in New York \ nCity – final approval would be made by the City Council instead of the City \nPlanning Commission.\n What types of projects are eligible for this expedited procedure? This \nexpedited review procedure is reserved for sp ecifically enumerated applications. \nThese generally include applications relating to modest zoning changes for housing\n (rezoning to districts wi th a standard height of not more than 45 feet in lower\ndensity areas and increases in housing capacity up to 30% in medium- and high\ndensity areas )\; dispositions\, acquisitions\, and certain City Map changes for \naffor dable housing\; acquisitions and site selections for resiliency projects a nd open \n7\nspace\; sale of City property that is undevelopable and unusa ble\; acquisitions for \nvoluntary flood buyouts\; and leases for solar en ergy on public land. \nOnly projects that categorically lack potential sig nificant adverse environmental\n impacts on communities are eligible for t he expedited procedure described in this \nballot question. If a project b y its size or nature requires an environmental impact \nstatement under st ate and local law\, it will remain subject to the Uniform Land Use \nRevie w Procedure in order to receive a more extensive public and environmental \nreview.\n Implementation: This proposed amendment would take effect imme diately. \nHowever\, it would not apply to applications that have been fil ed with the \nDepartment of City Planning pursuant to the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure \nand certified as complete before the effective date. \ n8\nQuestion 4\n Proposed Charter Amendment: Establish an Affordable Housi ng Appeals Board with Council\, \nBorough\, and Citywide Representation \n Establish an Affordable Housing Appeals Board with the Council Speaker\, l ocal Borough \nPresident\, and Mayor to review Council actions that reject or change applications creating \naffordable housing.\n “Yes” creates the three-member Affordable Housing Appeals Board to reflect Council\, bo rough\, \nand citywide perspectives. “No” leaves affordable housing su bject to the Mayor’s veto and final \ndecision by City Council.\n 9\nBal lot Question 4\n Proposed Charter Amendment: Establish an Affordable Housi ng Appeals \nBoard with Council\, Borough\, and Citywide Representation\n Abstract\n This proposal would create an Affordable Housing Appeals Board\ , consisting of \nthe affected Borough President\, the Speaker of the City Council\, and the Mayor.\n This new Appeals Board would have the power to review and reverse decisions by \nthe City Council that disapprove or mod ify land-use applications that directly \nfacilitate the creation of affor dable housing. The Appeals Board would replace the \nexisting Mayoral veto \, and the Council override of that veto\, for these types of \nland-use a pplications.\n This new Appeals Board aims to strike a balance between loc al\, boroughwide and \ncitywide perspectives on the production of affordab le housing. It does so by \nempowering the Speaker\, affected Borough Pres ident and Mayor to review and\n reverse City Council decisions on land use matters affecting the development of \naffordable housing — but only if two out of the three members agree.\n How it works: Currently\, certain l and use actions\, including rezoning applications\, \nspecial permits\, an d others\, must go through the City’s Uniform Land Use Review \nProcedur e (ULURP)– a seven-month process that begins with advisory opinions \nfr om the affected Community Board and Borough President\, followed by review \nand votes at the City Planning Commission and City Council. The Mayor m ay veto \nthe Council’s action\, and that veto is subject to an override by the Council.\n Under the proposal\, the Affordable Housing Appeals Boa rd would have the power \nto review and reverse actions of the City Counci l that disapprove or modify \napplications that directly facilitate the de velopment of affordable housing. While \nmuch of ULURP – from the commun ity board through City Council – would \nremain unchanged\, the Appeals Board would be empowered to conduct a final \nreview of these land-use app lications. Land-use applications that do not relate to \nthe development o f affordable housing are not subject to the Appeals Board.\n The Appeals B oard would consist of three members: the Speaker of the Council\, \nthe af fected Borough President\, and the Mayor (or a designee of each member). I f \nat least two of the three members agree\, the Board would be empowered to reverse \n10\na Council disapproval or modification of a land-use appl ication that would directly \nfacilitate the development of additional aff ordable housing. \nWhich land-use actions would be subject to the Affordab le Housing Appeals \nBoard? The Affordable Housing Appeals Board would com e into play only for \nULURP applications and zoning text amendments that would directly facilitate the \ncreation of affordable housing. These incl ude rezoning applications that are \nrequired to deliver affordable housin g under the City’s Mandatory Inclusionary \nHousing program\, as well as related actions that directly facilitate the creation of \naffordable hou sing\, such as parking special permits that reduce or remove off\nstreet p arking requirements that can hinder the development of affordable housing. \nIn addition\, the Appeals Board may review only applications where the land \nincluded in the application is located in a single borough. Changes not affecting \naffordable housing or affecting more than one borough\, i ncluding citywide \nchanges\, would continue to receive the same review as they do today. \nWhen could the Affordable Housing Appeals Board act? Onl y applications that \nfacilitate the creation of affordable housing that a re disapproved or approved with \nmodifications are eligible for review by the Affordable Housing Appeals Board. If \nan application is approved by the Council absent modifications\, the Board would \nlack jurisdiction to review an application. In addition\, no land use action would \nautomatica lly go to the Appeals Board. Instead\, an applicant must either appeal the \nCouncil’s decision or the Appeals Board can “call up” – or requ est review of – an \napplication. The Appeals Board would be empowered t o approve an application or \nreverse one or more of the modifications mad e by the Council only with the \nagreement of at least two of the three me mbers. \nImplementation: The proposed Charter amendments establishing the Affordable \nHousing Appeals Board would take effect immediately.\n 11\nQu estion 5\n Proposed Charter Amendment: Create a Digital City Map to Modern ize City Operations\n Consolidate borough map office and address assignmen t functions\, and create one digital City \nMap at Department of City Plan ning. Today\, the City Map consists of paper maps across five \noffices.\n “Yes” creates a consolidated\, digital City Map. “No” leaves in p lace five separate map and \naddress assignment functions\, administered b y Borough President Offices.\n 12\nBallot Question 5\n Proposed Charter Am endment: Create a Digital City Map to Modernize City \nOperations\n Abstra ct\n This proposal would require the City to consolidate and digitize the City Map. \nCurrently\, the Charter assigns administration of the City Map \, which consists of \nmany separate paper maps\, to five separate Borough President Topographical \nBureaus. This proposal would replace the existi ng\, decentralized paper City Map \nwith a single City Map administered by the Department of City Planning (DCP)\n and would also provide for the di gitization of the City Map. Under the proposal\, \nDCPwould also assume re sponsibility for address assignment.\n What is the City Map: The City Map establishes the legally defined locations of \nstreet lines\, widths\, nam es\, and legal grades\, as well as the locations of mapped \nparkland and public places. Today\, the City Map consists of five different sets\, one \nfor each borough\, totaling over 8\,000 individual paper maps. Certain h ousing\, \ninfrastructure\, and other projects require confirmation of pub lic jurisdiction as \nrepresented on the City Map before they can move for ward\, a process that can take \nmonths or years when it relies on paper m aps.\n How it works: The proposal would centralize administration of the C ity Map at \nDCPand mandate a single City Map that covers the entire City\ , rather than paper \nmaps limited to each borough. The proposal would als o require the City Map to be \ndigitized. It would also centralize adminis tration of address assignment with the \nDepartment of City Planning\, ins tead of leaving address assignment to the five \nBorough President Topogra phical Bureaus.\n Implementation: The transfer of address assignment from the Borough President \nTopographical Bureaus to the Department of City Pl anning would take effect on\n January 1\, 2027.\n The City Map would be co nsolidated into one single document by January 1\, 2028\, \nor a later fea sible date to be determined by the City Planning Commission.\n The City Ma p would be digitized by January 1\, 2029\, or a later feasible date to be \ndetermined by the Department of City Planning. \n13\nQuestion 6\n Propos ed Charter Amendment: Move Local Elections to Presidential Election Years to Increase \nVoter Participation\n Move the City’s primary and general election dates so that City elections are held in the same \nyear as Feder al Presidential elections\, when permitted by state law.\n “Yes” moves City elections to the same year as Federal Presidential elections\, when permitted by \nstate law. “No” leaves laws unchanged.\n 14\nBallot Que stion 6\n Proposed Charter Amendment: Move Local Elections to Presidential Election \nYears to Increase Voter Participation\n Abstract\n This propos al would make changes to the timing of elections held for the offices of \ nMayor\, Public Advocate\, Comptroller\, Borough President\, and City Coun cil \nMembers to move the City’s primary and general election dates to e ven-numbered \nyears\, upon a required change to State law. \nHow it works : Currently\, elections for City office are held in odd-numbered years. \n This proposal would provide for even-year elections that coincide with the federal \npresidential elections. A Charter amendment is required to move the election \ncalendar to even years and to provide for a one-time trans ition in which elected \nofficials would serve a term of three years (as o pposed to the usual four years). A \nchange to the State Constitution\, wh ich requires that all city officers be elected in \nodd-numbered years\, i s also necessary before New York City may shift its local \nelections to e ven years. If the necessary changes to state law occur\, elections for \nC ity office would occur in the same year as the federal presidential electi ons. \nOne-time transition from odd-year to even-year elections: A shift t o even-year \nelections on the presidential cycle would\, when it goes int o effect\, require a one\ntime transition in which elected officials would serve a term of three years\, instead \nof the typical four years. The ti ming of this one-time transition cycle would depend \non whether and when a State law is enacted to permit New York City to move its \nelections to even years. \nCouncilmember two-year terms: Currently\, the Charter provid es for a shortened \ntwo-year term every 20 years for City Councilmembers in order to coordinate City \nCouncil terms after a redistricting\, which is required after every decennial census. \nAs a result\, every two decade s\, the City holds elections for City Council but not for \ncitywide or bo roughwide elected officials. Under the proposed system\, these \nperiodic two-year terms would be eliminated\, so that Councilmembers serve only \nf our-year terms. As a consequence\, there will sometimes be a longer delay in the \nuse of new district lines following a redistricting than there is today\, but this \nchange ensures that elections for City Council occur d uring cycles with the higher \n15\nturnout that is expected to be associat ed with elections held in even-numbered \nyears.\n If a State law authoriz ing the City to hold elections for City office in even\nnumbered years tak es effect during a two-year term\, that term would be either \nshortened t o one year or extended to three years\, depending on the precise timing \n of the State law. This one-time transition would enable the switch to hold ing \nelections for City office in even-numbered years. \nImplementation: This proposal would take effect upon the effective date of a \nState law a uthorizing the City to hold elections for City office to occur in even\nnu mbered years. \n16\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n DETAILS REFERRAL\n\n https://vote. nyc/sites/default/files/pdf/Ballot_Proposals/GE2025/Ballot_Proposals_2025_ English_r1a_WEB.pdf\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n REFERRAL\n\n https://www.nbcnewyork .com/news/politics/nyc-ballot-questions-what-are-they/6413813/\n\n\n\n  \ n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 93% of voting\n\n\n\n https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/ election-day-2025?msockid=2423737518666ffa14b265e519726e69\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\ n  \n\n\n\n forum post\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12023-nyc-mayral-th oughts-a-conclusion/\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n COMMENTS\n\n\n\n  \n\n \n\n URL\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n MY THOUGHTS TO IT \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n On 11/5/2025 at 11:02 AM\, ProfD said:\n \n\n \n \n It is a done deal.  N YC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani won in a landslide. \n \n \n\n\n\n It wasn 't a landslide\, MAmdani won 50% of voting after 93% of votes came in . An d I can say\, many didn't vote. NYC has over ten million people \, many di d not vote. MANY ok\, I even asked various immigrant peoples. They didn't vote. Maybe they couldn't. OK\, these were strangers\, but I asked\, many didn't vote. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n On 11/5/2025 at 11:02 AM\ , ProfD said:\n \n\n \n \n If successful\, rent freeze\, free buses\, a ffordable healthcare\, more teachers and other things will benefit the cit izens of NYC.\n \n \n\n\n\n Successful... the word I rather use is possib le. It is interesting ProfD chose that. I Ask all of you who may read this \, focus on results in your prose concerning government. Every single gove rnmental officials fails and succeeds all the time\, it isn't a sum .\n\n\ n\n But functionality can be clearly defined. \n\n\n\n First\, the mayor of New York City doesn't have these powers. I don't know who said the mayo r of New York City is a king... who started this narrative about doing all this stuff as mayor? So many offline and online have said what profd said and I don't get where any of these people got that from \, where that nar rative began\, does anyone know? I even argue\, like Obama that Mamdani ha s an excellent media team that really does all of that very well. \n\n\n\ n De blasio rent freezed for eight years \, didn't lower the rent. I find it funny that NYC in recent memory had a mayor who rent freezed and yet\, it doesn't seem to be known by anyone at least in admittance\, maybe it is a secret I am unaware of in some fashion.\n\n\n\n The Mayor doesn't contr ol the buses\, or the MTA\, the governor does and if the governor gives fr ee buses to NYC\, the governor will have to give free transport to all of New York State\, while of course paying all the transit workers\, and this is with no guarantee of federal money. Hochul is not crazy. \n\n\n\n The Mayor of NYC is not in control of healthcare plans... where does all this come from? Maybe I am stupid but I don't comprehend why so many in NYC or outside of it\, keep saying similar to profd\,  BLoomberg was/is a billi onaire \, had three terms and had no control whatsoever over these things\ , how is mamdani going to ? what? \n\n\n\n And where is the money to hire the teachers going to come from? \n\n\n\n Mamdani's public legislative r ecord in the ny assembly which I cited above\, in which nothing he did cam e from some hidden corner . Mamdani likes legislations that have the gover nment spending money\, but the problem is\, the usa government has to be w illing to print that money. \n\n\n\n I don't see how Mamdani will accompl ish any of these things with the power of a mayor\, unless he has some min d control job and he is going to get the governor of new york state + pres ident of the usa to bend to his will... cause he needs the president of th e usa + governor of NYC to make all those things happen. \n\n\n\n \n On 11/5/2025 at 11:02 AM\, ProfD said:\n \n\n \n \n The white media is los ing their minds over Mayor-Elect Mamdani because he seemingly came out of left field.  Showed up like a unicorn.  He doesn't  fit the red or blue narrative. \n \n \n\n\n\n It is interestin\,  NYC media hasn't been sh ocked but NYC media went through AOC. Maybe outside NYC\, white owned medi a is incapable of handling this moment\,  but mamdani is a muslim\, and f or many christians in the usa\, well\, the reality of a muslim being mayor of a big city is... crusaderish.  NYC media has had one question which I have had\, how is he going to accomplish? The laws exists\, how is he goi ng to change the laws? I find it interesting that a non black is not quest ioned on how by even black people... well ok. \n\n\n\n Mamdani's campaign success had the same roots of Obama/OCasio cortez/Olhan ground game. AOC had the exact same scenario\, opponent was a white old donkey who didn't c omprehend the demographic changes. Obama likewise\, in that his old white was a white woman. \n\n\n\n I ask all who may read this\, Does scrhumpt f it the red or blue narrative\, if red was supposed to mean war hawk mainta ining the international order\, I don't think schrumpft fits that as he is trying to dismantle the old international order? Does obama fit the red o r blue narrative\, Obama made ICE\, is that showing an opennes to the othe r in blue? Did Bush jr fit the red or blue narrative\, bush jr made the af rican american museum not obama\, does that fit a white power narrative in red? Did Mr Clinton fit the red or blue narrative \, he is the one who ma de the unevenly applied welfare to work program so no blue equality as wel l as the one who governed the dot com bubble into its inevitable disaster\ , not really blue techie . I have mentioned how the dichotomy argument in the USA is one of those historic public lies in the usa. Ever since the us a had two parties from the early 1800s\, they each created the dichotomy a dvertisement campaign. whether their names are whigs or federalist or what ever\, they have maintained that ad campaign a long time\, but it was a ne ver a true representation of anything. were the first people in this count ry ever red or blue? of course not. were Black DOSers ever red or blue? of course not. \n\n\n\n Both first peoples+Black DOSers historically have a lways been two seperate entities that didn't have the militaristic power t o state themselves properly. But not having the ability to advertise your trueself doesn't mean your not your true self. Again\, Frederick Douglass/ WEBDUbois/MLK j were arguably the most engages\, integrationary \,black le aders and all were booed by a majority of black people during their life t ime\, which proves black people were never donkey or elephant\, red or blu e and to be blunt\, no one in the usa was or is. \n\n\n\n But I repeat wh at MAmdani is\, a fiscal capitalist. People keep trying to make him some u nique agent\, he isn't. \n\n\n\n All legislators are wisely judged by onl y one thing\, their legislation\, not speeches\, not their racial makeup[p henotype/money/geographic ancestry/religion/party of governance affiliatio n] \n\n\n\n Mamdani is a fiscal capitalist whose primary desire is to use the military might of the usa to make wealth to support various municipal projects in the usa. \n\n\n\n I even remember someone saying in big medi a years back \, a so called leftist democrat\, that the usa can just print money to finance all it needs. Which functionally means\, use the usa mil itary power to print as much money and provide as much money as needed to make the economy of the usa run. And that is mamdani. fiscal capitalism th rough government. \n\n\n\n I Don't think it is democratic socialism at al l or communism or religious fervor or any of the many claims people give t o mamdani. \n\n\n\n But I think if he is smart he take after the two cand idates he is very much alike SCrumpft + Obama.\n\n\n\n He said he wanted t o make history\, so did obama +schrumpft. But if he is smart\, go schrumpf ts route\, focus on a voting base and what the mayor can do. \n\n\n\n The mayor's greatest power is hiring or firing people in NYC governmnet and m anipulating the bureaucracy of NYC. he doesn't control budgets of any sort \, every mayor for decades eveyr year goes to albany and begs for money. That is not money any mayor of NYC controls. NYC mayor doesn't control the schools\, NY State does. the mayor doesn't control healthcare\, NYState a nd the federal government does. \n\n\n\n I said years ago obama should ha d polished the federal governments bureaucracy \, many black people online called me crazy or other negatives\, not mean spirited but in firm opposi tion but in cheap hindsight i was right. \n\n\n\n Because schrumpft is pr esident\, a position the congress of the usa has empowered over a century\ , he can do many things\, but a mayor of nyc can't and hochul will be comp elled to restrain nyc by the other cities or the counties of new york stat e and she as governor has the power to do it. \n\n\n\n referral\n\n\n\n h ttps://www.dayonefor.nyc/scope-of-mayoral-power/\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n \n\n \n On 11/5/2025 at 11:02 AM\, ProfD said:\n \n\n \n \n Democrats were never all-in on Mayor-Elect Mamdani.  Now\, they will be studying hi s recipe to pick and choose the ingredients and type of candidates needed to win future elections in certain areas.😎\n \n \n\n\n\n well here is the problem\,NYC is unqiue. MAmdani has in NYC the only populace of a majo r city in the usa with such a mix of peoples.  all white towns or all bla ck ones or native american reservations can't be approached like nyc. STac y Abrams arguably proved what mamdani did now already failed in some place s in the usa... if any remembers her legendary ground game\, better than m amdani's... but nyc is so different than the state of georgia. \n\n\n\n a lso the lack of voting in NYC\, i repeat\, media keeps saying more people voted now than in sixteen years but here is the problem nyc is over ten mi llion people easy. ten percent of ten million is one million so ten percen t of nyc's populace voting \, and the bronx still had a very low turnout w hich media aren't reporting. I say in sport all the time\, don't overestim ate failure or underestimate success. What that means is\, all to often \, especially in government or fiscal activity\, black people have a way of blowing up failures into christian raptures\, while making successes seem like quiet balances of nature. \n\n\n\n The usa has a populace of over th ree hundred million\, in my lifetime no election in any position has ever garnered fifty percent or better\, which means no election has ever been a s potent a win or failure as suggested and their lies the true problem. \ n\n\n\n NYC has alot of problems\, serious problems\, and mamdani/cuoma/sl iwa/AOC/Schrumpft/Olhan/Obama/Clintons/the surpreme court\, none of these people have the answer\, they don't even have the ability to work together to find an answer together... so... I find it telling how many people lov e to suggest the era change and not assess the modernity evenly. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n comment referral\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12023-nyc- mayral-thoughts-a-conclusion/#findComment-77385\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Posted  Wednesday at 05:54 PM\n\n\n\n  a drop of seriousness\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n @ProfD \n\n\n\n The short answer\, Mamdani will not be de blasio 2.0 in any way\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n ...\n\n\n\n The long answer....\n\n\n\n What do es Lindsey to Mamdani have in common? \n\n\n\n The problems of NYC are be yond the office of mayor to solve. \n\n\n\n Lindsey->\;Koch->\;Dinkin s->\;Guiliani->\;Bloomberg->\;De Blasio->\;Adams->\;Mamdani all couldn't actually repair the problems of the city. They each put bandages on select problems\, but each bandaid always erased eventually onto a wors e wound. \n\n\n\n Lindsey allowed the gypsy cabs\, made the knapp report to clean up law enforcement. But the governor\, rockefeller\,  made rjike rs. The governor didn't use his power to keep business in Nyc or new york state. he allowed the federal funds to support the white flight\, lindsey had no way to stop that.\n\n\n\n Koch didn't make the roaring 80s of NYC o r the urban plight of the 80s\, Reagan did. Reagan defunded schools\, publ ic works projects which negatively influenced all the non white regions in nyc during koch's time\, while reagan also gave money to big business whi ch led to the big building boom downtown manhattan during koch's time and the expansion of banking operations. koch simply set up ny city law enforc ement to have free reign on abusing the poor who were inevitable\, startin g NYC law enforcement's infatuation with being protected.\n\n\n\n Dinkins was denied by the banks the prior mayors had agreements with through the c ity to do business. Dinkins also had the unenviable task of coming after t hree terms of koch so dinkins in everything he was trying to do was deemed radical because the city had twelve years of one way. \n\n\n\n Guiliani expanded the reagan idea by selling the buildings nyc owned to private or forcing them into becoming coops. But guiliani wasn't why the rents were g etting higher and food more expensive or the labor market in the city was getting too narrow. The real estate industry had been allowed through the federal government to prop itself up and maintain its value in very artifi cial ways. And he wasnt to blame for the dot com bubble which influenced r eal estate. \n\n\n\n Bloomberg gave real estate everything they wanted\, more and more buildings\, he opened up brooklyn to the modern highrise\, h e wanted to do the same to bronx or queens but all the implosions of vario us industries\, from banks to automotive to whatever. Bloomberg emphasized the charter school movement\, attacking harlem's schools like guiliani at tack harlem's residentials. \n\n\n\n De Blasio rent froze and supported p ublic schools but he came after twenty years of guiliani+bloomberg who sup ported the real estate industries agendas and law enforcement. and then th e building collapse happened\, another age of corporate consolidation star ted so downtown was unhappy\, but the city didn't have any industry outsid e real estate/banking\, which none of the prior mayors worked for or were allowed to do in circa thirty two years. \n\n\n\n Adams comes in and says he will make nyc safer\,but that is by spending on law enforcement but al l his labor numbers are hogwash. the city has for ten years\, over one hun dred thousand homeless children in public school. Adams didn't find their parents jobs so the job growth he mentioned is not functional\, just stati stical games. \n\n\n\n MAmdani wants affordability\, but while the mayor can lower the rent he can't force the cost of utilities to go lower\, he c an't force the various coops or private buildings that have been ushered i n before him to lower their rent. He doesn't control the management of int ernational trade which nyc relies on as nyc will never have the ability to feed itself\, a population of way over ten million people in a city geogr aphic space far smaller than los angeles. Consider los angeles has about a fourth of nyc's populace but at least double nyc's landmass. \n\n\n\n Ma mdani simply joins the ranks of mayors who are bandaid men. Whatever they choose to focus on will look good for a while but the external forces will render mute. \n\n\n\n The casinos is a state issue. Marijuana is a state issue. The real estate industry in the city because guiliani+bloomberg pr ivatized so much is beyond any mayor's control.  This is why the fast tra ck is being considered. But \, my parents say it best\, and they have live d through multiple housing booms. Housing booms never lower the rent. And the reason why is the business of real estate isn't about places to live b ut investments. So many people in NYC own properties as investment\,s they don't live there\, they don't want to build anything there\, they simply want tenants to leech through rents or sell for some financial goal per so me personal plan. Add the underreported and ballooning nyc populace. Those three factors mean new buildings can never lower the rent. I even expect legal action against the fast track program. What media may not have told those outside nyc is that\, many regions of nyc\, blockade new buildings w hile pushing new buildings into the poorest regions. The wealthy black com munity in Queens has never had a alcoholics anonymous where they are. so\, i can see legal action. Schrumpft will support it to breed chaos and then .... Food is totally out of the control of mayor. When the sars cov 2 happ ened\, NYC was at the mercy of the international trade of goods. ... maybe mamdani can try to tax foods that have ny state alternatives. New york st ate does have some food producers but do they make enough... bloomberg and de blasio tried to get the wind farm but that is  behind schedule/in lim bo before schrumpft and with schrumpt... maybe dead\, I don't know\, so en ergy is going to rise\, nuclear power is no unless someone comes up with f usion or fission but figures out how to make the pipes for the molten salt reactors of fission. the cost of living  is going to rise. Maybe mamdani can try tax incentives\, but as a legislator in the state assembly he did n't seem a big tax incentive man. he seemed to be a tax eliminator man. An d MAmdani has no control over the shutdown battle\, which is a battle of b links. the donkeys + elephants have plans on the congress floor\, neither will sign the one the other made\, so the shutdown is until one decides to sign the one the other made. MAmdani has no control over that\, but the e bt and snap is huge for nyc's elderly and fiscally poor populace. the NYPD are always up for the policing bit but\, mamdani has never been in a situ ation where he has to govern the nypd while also utilize them\, if he make s a mistake\, he will deemed a traitor by many of his voters. I don't know where jobs will come from\, the schools in nyc are tyring to have job ini tiatives cause they see\, that graudates aren't getting job to such a quan tity that it will influence how people view going to college. \n\n\n\n Th e city have problems. Mamdani will never be De Blasio 2-0 but he is Mamdan i 1.0 already. \n\n\n\n If MAmdani is lucky before next year the federal government finds some sort of balance. If he is unlucky\, Mamdani will be entering the job of mayor with a city boiled over or about to boil over. . .. Adams I must say has a huge role. The modulation between adams and mamd ani is also huge. Usually the new mayor comes in like a storm\, but that I don't think is a wise way for mamdani to come in. \n\n\n\n We shall see . \n\n\n\n My final issue are his voters. If MAmdani starts bad\, this wi ll be a very long four years for him. He can't afford to start bad. The me dia alone will cricify him but it will test his supporters. Maybe they wil l remain faithful\, hopeful\, but... \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n comment referral \n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12023-nyc-mayral-thoughts-a-conclusion /#findComment-77391\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Posted just now\n\n\n\n @ProfD @Pioneer1 @Mel Hopkins \n\n\n\n Well here is an idea being posi tive. \n\n\n\n My Preface\n\n\n\n I made a suggestion when Obama became p resident\, that he should had spent his time improving the efficiency of t he federal bureaucracy\, as president he could do that with no input from anyone else. PResidents can't control the economy of the world\, they can' t protect peoples in states\, they can't make laws that are everlasting.  \n\n\n\n Presidents legal parameters allow them to manipulate the executiv e branch bureaucracy\, and mold the war machine with no input from any oth er. \n\n\n\n That didn't happen. Obama meddled in finance and healthcare and made the bureaucracy worse and made the war machine worse.\n\n\n\n My Idea for Mamdani\n\n\n\n The mayor of NYC can't control or manipulate the price of food[private industry]. the cost of utilities[private industry]. the global real estate industries interwoven system[private industry]. the employers reaction to modern computing power[that is private industry]\, get money to finance the city[that is the governor]. The reality is the mo dern global fiscal capitalistic structure NYC was placed firmly in through decades of actions that can not be undone in four years or eight years or twelve years. The mayor of NYC can improve the bureaucracy of NYC\, for e xample manipulating the NYPD into another organization. \n\n\n\n But the mayor can also pass laws\, unlike the president who has been given legal p owers by the congress. the mayor has the greater power in NYC\, and so to the affordability push\, I say make an affordability scale law.\n\n\n\n Wh at do I mean? \n\n\n\n Butter cost eight dollars for four sticks. Which m eans two sticks cost four dollars. One stick costs two dollars. A half of a stick cost one dollar. \n\n\n\n But most stores only sell packs of four or two. So\, the affordability law is needed to get customers the ability to scale down what is sold to them. \n\n\n\n For example\, for butter\, why can't customers have a half a stick of butter available for one dollar ? Literally have the stores\, the delis + supermarkets \, be within a lega l right to sell goods when applicable in a more affordable way. \n\n\n\n The mayor can't lower the cost of butter\, but in NYC with so many relying on EBT/Snap/Food pantries including federal workers who haven't been paid \, forcing businesses to sell products more affordably i think is somethin g he could had said he was going to do during the campaign. \n\n\n\n Mayb e I am too serious or to honest\, but I have never comprehended why anyone in government in a post or applying for a post provides pie in the sky or hopes or possibilities. All government post in human history have rules\, even kings or queens. The rules dictate what you can do. So\, just tell p eople with what you will be able to do in a position what you will do. \n \n\n\n Well that is it\, my one idea to push. BAsed on Obama+AOC + Ohlan+. . Adams plus many others\, the odds are mamdani's agenda will be nothing a s I suggest. But\, I gave a functional idea. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Comment referral\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12023-nyc-mayral-thoughts-a-co nclusion/#findComment-77442\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Posted just now\n\n\n\n @P rofD\n\n\n\n   10 minutes ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\n\n Businesses can eit her scale products to be more affordable and/or EBT/SNAP benefits \n\n\n\ n can be increased to more adequately cover costs of products and goods.\n \n\n\n remember\, ebt/snap are all federal issues\, the mayor of nyc has n o power over those benefits\, but getting businesses in nyc to scale produ cts he can do\, at least get a law made and I think enough support exists in nyc for that to happen. The detractors will be the grocers who will tax hit or an overhead cost increase with this action. But\, the growing line s of people i see on the food pantry I don't think will mind. In this way those people who may have pennies here or there can go to the stores and b uy something. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n   10 minutes ago\, ProfD said:\n\n\ n\n There is no good reason for the wealthiest country on the planet for a ny of its citizens to be poor\, hungry or homeless. Especially when it com es to women\, children and senior citizens. \n\n\n\n It's funny profd\, I have heard black people offline say that my entire life. and I have never once believed it to be true. the usa was built on the european colonies w hich themselves were built on the death of the first peoples. That is the truth\, I don't know about good or bad reasons but I know true reasons. an d they are what they are. the heritage of the usa is genocide is enslaveme nt\, we all know this \, black people should know and yet... is it hope? i s that what I miss? Is it communicating hope? is that the basis of that op inion which so many black people utter all the time. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Comment referral\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12023-nyc-mayral-thoug hts-a-conclusion/#findComment-77444\n\n\n\n  \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251104 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR