[Photo on 1st Avenue yesterday by Peter Brownscombe]
Voters yesterday approved three proposals that came via the Charter Review Commission
As a recap about what they are:
Proposal 1: Campaign Finance
This proposal would lower the amount that a candidate for city office may accept from a contributor to their campaign, increase the amount of public funds available to participating candidates, and make public funds available earlier. Candidates in the 2021 election would have the choice of whether or not to have the new limits apply to them.
Proposal 2: Civic Engagement Commission
This proposal would create a Civic Engagement Commission that would centralize civic engagement initiatives, create a citywide participatory budgeting program, assist community boards, and provide language interpreters throughout the city on Election Day.
Proposal 3: Community Boards
This proposal would change how community boards throughout the city are run, by imposing term limits on appointees, changing the application and appointment process for community board members, and require the Civic Engagement Commission (if Question 2 is approved) to provide resources to community boards.
Per NY1:
Eighty percent of New Yorkers voted "yes" on the first proposal, which cuts the maximum amount of campaign contributions allowed for candidates running for city office.
The second would create a civic engagement commission, which would also allow residents to vote on how to spend city funds.
It won approval by 65 percent of voters.
And 72 percent of voters said "yes" to the last provision.
It would apply term limits to members of the city's 59 community boards.
You can find a full list of the Election Day results for New York here.