Good Government

As founder of WikiLaw.org, I believe that the Government and its body of law should be transparent for the people it governs. As founder of VoterSearch.org, I believe that protecting your right to vote is essential to an accountable government. As former Co-Chair of Community Board 8's Communication Committee, I worked to open the community board by announcingcommunity board membership applications and ensuring they were widely available at meetings. I have continued my work with Community Board 8's Communication Committee and we have made its television show "Community Board 8 Speaks" available online.

As your City Council member I will continue the work of making City Hall transparent by making its business available online through the web, PDF, podcast, and YouTube like videos. I will openCity Hall by creating NYC.OpenLegislation.org, a local version of OpenCongress.org, where anyone will be able to share their views on all business, in support of the mission of theParticipatory Politics Foundation. City Hall will become accountable to you the people as NYC.OpenLegislation.org, will let you track business before City Hall and how your representative voted on issues of importance to you.

salif fofana

My Issues: 
Good Government
Community
Public Safety
Education
Israel
Roosevelt Island
Transportation
Elections
Jobs
Second Avenue Subway Construction
Other
Environment

arlene german

My Issues: 
Good Government
Health
Technology
Education
Transportation
Second Avenue Subway Construction

Fight Member Item Corruption Using Participatory Budgeting

This week’s events call attention to the importance that each one of the fifty-one members of the City’s only legislature have in determining how we as a City spend $77.7 billion dollars, comprising the fourth largest budget in the country after the federal, and California, and New York State budgets.