March 14, 2023
NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams currently signed 5 pieces of legislation — two that will supply assistance and accountability for criminal justice applications and Crisis Management Program (CMS) providers that obtain city funding, 1 that will generate a juvenile justice board, 1 that will guarantee mental overall health solutions are offered in shelters serving households with young children, and 1 that will reduce interest prices for house tax arrears owed by low- and moderate-earnings property owners.
Intros. 439 and 756 will guarantee higher accountability of and assistance for CMS providers by requiring the Mayor’s Workplace of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) to evaluate the functionality of criminal justice applications getting city funding and to supply coaching and operational assistance to CMS providers. Intro. 436 will strengthen the juvenile justice program by establishing a juvenile justice board. Intro. 522 will guarantee higher mental overall health sources for New Yorkers living in shelters by requiring mental overall health specialists to supply either onsite or telehealth assistance to households with young children living in shelters. Intro. 524 will supply relief for low- and moderate-earnings property owners by lowering interest prices for house tax arrears owed by properties assessed at $250,000 or significantly less that have entered into a payment program with the city.
“The prerequisite to prosperity is public security, and our administration has currently created considerable strides in generating our city safer and extra prosperous for all New Yorkers,” mentioned Mayor Adams. “The 5 bills we are signing currently assistance struggling property owners, give young men and women a voice in juvenile detention, assistance our households and young children living in shelters, and supply assistance for our gun violence interrupters. I thank Speaker Adams and the sponsors of these bills for their partnership.”
“The Mayor’s Workplace of Criminal Justice is proud to companion with a quantity of neighborhood-primarily based organizations that supply crucial solutions to New Yorkers, from violence interruption to reentry solutions for these returning from incarceration,” mentioned MOCJ Director Deanna Logan. “Intros. 439 and 756 will assistance us assistance these organizations to fulfill their missions by equipping them with the tools to succeed, whilst supplying higher oversight to guarantee effective and right use of city sources.”
“Mental overall health solutions are crucial to assisting vulnerable New Yorkers stabilize their lives in shelter, and Intro. 522 will assistance additional boost the variety of meaningful supports we give to all of our consumers, like onsite or offsite linkages to mental overall health solutions for households with young children residing in shelter,” mentioned New York City Division of Social Solutions Acting Commissioner Molly Wasow Park. “We thank Councilmember Bottcher for his partnership on this legislation, which reaffirms our commitment to leaving no stone unturned in our ongoing efforts to assistance households with young children experiencing homelessness.”
“The Division of Finance is committed to functioning with property owners who owe house tax arrears and delivers various choices for payment plans,” mentioned New York City Division of Finance (DOF) Commissioner Preston Niblack. “Intro. 524 will assistance supply extra breathing area for low- and moderate-earnings property owners whilst making certain the city can recoup this crucial supply of income.”
Intro. 439 — sponsored by New York City Councilmember Nantasha Williams — demands MOCJ to evaluate the functionality of organizations that obtain funding from the city for criminal justice solutions, such as options to incarceration, reentry solutions, pretrial supervised release, and violence prevention programming. MOCJ is essential to submit a report summarizing these evaluations to the mayor and the City Council annually.
Intro. 756 — sponsored by New York City Councilmember Kamillah Hanks — will demand the Workplace for Neighborhood Security and the Prevention of Violence, in consultation with MOCJ, to supply coaching and operational assistance to CMS providers. This work will consist of supplying coaching on to the delivery of solutions and nonprofit administration and capacity developing, supplying referrals to technical assistance ranging from small business solutions to human resource help, facilitating collaboration in between CMS stakeholders, and supplying info connected to voluntary trainings and relevant certifications for service provider workers.
Intro. 436 — sponsored by New York City Councilmember Althea Stevens — will generate a juvenile justice advisory board, consisting of 20 members, to advise and supply suggestions to the mayor, the City Council, and the New York City Administration for Children’s Solutions on problems connected to juvenile justice. This bill would demand the board to annually report to the mayor and the speaker a description of its activities, the final results of its overview and suggestions, and any challenges in supplying oversight and feedback.
Intro. 522 — sponsored by New York City Councilmember Erik Bottcher — will demand every shelter serving households with young children to supply either onsite or telehealth mental overall health solutions.
Intro. 524 — sponsored by New York City Councilmember David Carr — will authorize the New York City Banking Commission to propose, and the City Council to adopt, an interest price applicable to the house tax arrears that accrue whilst an eligible house — defined as a house exactly where the principal homeowner has an annual earnings of $200,000 or significantly less, with an assessed worth of $250,000 or significantly less — is the topic of a valid payment agreement program with the DOF. The price suggested by the Banking Commission ought to be at least equal to the most not too long ago determined federal brief-term interest price rounded to the nearest half %. The DOF will also be essential to conduct outreach for the new price and report back to the mayor and the speaker.
“I’m so proud that the City Council passed and Mayor Adams has signed my third bill, groundbreaking legislation that will place mental overall health solutions in each loved ones homeless shelter in New York City,” mentioned New York City Councilmember Erik Bottcher. “Mental overall health solutions saved my life and they need to be offered to absolutely everyone, regardless of their circumstance. I want to thank WIN, the city’s biggest provider of shelter for girls and young children, and their president and CEO, Christine Quinn, for bringing this problem to our interest and functioning with us more than the previous year to create this legislation and Mayor Adams for his assistance.”
“For far too lengthy, this city has imposed the same high interest rates intended to punish tax scofflaws on struggling middle- and functioning-class families who have fallen behind on their bills,” mentioned New York City Councilmember David Carr. “This legislation will place that to an finish by permitting us to set a separate interest price that will help those property owners who are making good faith efforts to spend their tax debt, rather than burying them in it. I thank Mayor Adams for his leadership in signing this historic legislation currently.”
“These bills are a considerable achievement in strengthening our Crisis Management Program and building safer communities for all New Yorkers,” mentioned New York City Councilmember Kamillah Hanks. “I’m proud to have sponsored Intro. 756, which will supply essential coaching and assistance to the CMS providers. Investing in their capacity will guarantee they have the tools they have to have to minimize gun violence and other types of harm. I am grateful to my colleagues and Mayor Adams for their partnership on these crucial problems.”
“We typically speak about the significance of providing our young men and women a voice and selection. For justice-involved youth, this is of the utmost significance as they are currently engaged with a program that requires away a great deal of their autonomy,” mentioned New York City Councilmember Althea Stevens. “I am so excited to be passing Intro. 436 with my colleagues to generate a juvenile detention advisory board to guarantee justice-involved youth and their households have a seat at the table when choices are becoming created. Although I am so proud to be passing this bill, this is just the very first step, and I appear forward to functioning with this advisory board to create new preventative and diversion approaches. We ought to get to a location exactly where we are investing in our young men and women on the front finish, so we do not have to have to invest in them on the back finish.”
“The New York City criminal justice program has implemented quite a few applications to boost public security, like options to incarceration, reentry or diversion applications, pretrial supervised release solutions, and crisis management groups,” mentioned New York City Councilmember Nantasha Williams. “While these applications give a extra complete strategy to justice, there is no transparency due to the lack of publicly offered information. To make our city safer, we have to have to recognize which applications are functioning and which ones are not. I am urging the Mayor’s Workplace of Criminal Justice to evaluate the functionality of criminal justice applications getting city funding annually and report the findings to not only the mayor’s workplace but also the New York City Council and the public as effectively. This will guarantee that the info that is allegedly currently becoming collected is now readily offered and accessible, supplying transparency amongst all parties.”
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