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Immediate Goals for NYC

  • Provide an umbrella of public safety and sanitation which supports OUR people: our families, small businesses, taxpayers: day-to-day quality of life improvements to our  citizens on our streets and subways. OVERDO it with police, sanitation, and other resources until people feel not just a little comfortable again but very comfortable.
     

  • Reduce costs and taxes. Reduce the complexity of NYC’s programs. Improve oversight of the 20% of NYC budget outsourced to independent contractors. Transparency: itemizing expenditures so New Yorkers can understand where their tax dollars are going.
     

  • Stand for municipal excellence. Advocate for the highest world quality benchmarks, commissioners, department heads, and standards of performance. Move away from distractions such as illogical sanctuary city policies and polices which are the domain of the Federal government.
     

  • Improve / tighten the feedback loop from our citizens. Unify the calendar of community boards, group coaching of community boards, systematic feedback from community boards. Much more rapid response and monitoring of local complaints.
     

  • Develop more awareness of how NYC’s image is perceived and how overlapping agencies’ concerns can influence business decisions. NYC should put businesses first. Cut out red tape that makes property owners go crazy with permits. We should prioritize investments which support business – for example, prioritize the most visible subway stations first. We need to clean up the look of the city. The PA should be NYC’s number #1 cheerleader.

Long Term Goals for NYC

  • Enhance the community boards. NYC is a richly cultural team. We should re-name, proudly, our community boards by their local names: the Corona Board, the Bay Ridge
    Board, the Spanish Harlem Board.  Our community board leaders should be compensated and trained together. We should instill pride and teamwork in our communities.
     

  • Refocus our schools, families, and the tax code to embrace education from ages 11-21 so as to turn learners into earners. We need to crack the mentality that education
    doesn’t matter in a world where technology will create more not less pressure on earnings. We should look at no taxes until age 25 with those taxes accrued into a home
    purchase account; parents could have a lifelong 10% interest in their kids taxes.
     

  • Fix our old public facilities. Our police stations are grim and intimidating: the opposite of what we want. Hold a design competition with the goal of creating facilities which improve police/community relations.
     

  • Improve how we present ourselves to visitors and to ourselves. In the old days immigrants arrived under the shadow of the Statue of Liberty. Today, our 60 million visitors see a mental hospital as they cross the Triboro Bridge. They experience unsafe and chaotic public spaces such as Times Square and subways without safety doors. We have abandoned islands and underutilized waterways and shorelines. We need to improve the presentation of the city dramatically and quickly.
     

  • Public housing. We need to create a path to home ownership for NYCHA’s 400,000 residents. We are better off as a society finding ways to lift everyone up than to keep part of our NYC team permanently in limbo.
     

  • Recognize our wins. Celebrate NYC’s 400 th birthday and community leaders with an annual “Kennedy Center” honors program.
     

  • More specific benefits for NYC’s residents, whether this is discounts on subway passes for property taxpayers, or priority for bike riders. NYC residents should have some
    specific benefits so they feel that they are a priority.

Hamilton Plan V2.0

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