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EDITOR’S NOTE / Contents

Jon Lentz Senior Editor

It’s official: New York is home to both the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates this year.

As a reward, the state had a front-row seat at the national conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia, and local politicians played prominent roles – former Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Rep. Chris Collins among them.

Nationally, the contest has already been groundbreaking. Hillary Clinton became the first female presidential candidate of a major party, while Donald Trump is the first nominee in decades without any military or public service experience.

But the matchup has upended the common wisdom about the geography of presidential contenders, too. Over the last few cycles, pundits have questioned the viability of East Coast candidates. Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Mitt Romney, the former GOP governor of Massachusetts, were viewed as too elite and out of touch.

Not so this time around. While Trump will face an uphill battle in his bid for his home state, the country will have a president from the Northeast come January – no matter who wins.

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BATTLEFIELD: CONVENTIONS A debate rages over race relations at the Republican and Democratic national conventions.

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PHILADELPHIA FEUD

Cuomo and de Blasio use DNC stages to stake their claim as New York’s progressive leader.

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AGENCY FOCUS: DASNY

An insider’s guide to the state Dormitory Authority.

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EVENT: ON DIVERSITY

Experts, electeds and entrepreneurs discuss what can be done to level the playing field in New York.

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SLANT

Angelo Falcón on what Adriano Espaillat will need to do to unite the 13th Congressional District.

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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION

The premier progressive?

Cuomo and de Blasio use DNC stages to stake their claims

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faction with the city’s leadership after 12 years of Michael Bloomberg, has tried to usher in an era of progressive government, spurring confrontations with Cuomo while, many believe, drawing the governor to the left at the same time. Sanders, seemingly a more natural ally of de Blasio, did meet with the mayor on Tuesday morning behind closed doors.

The next day, de Blasio, who declined to endorse Clinton for months while attempting to position himself as a national progressive figure, spoke around 5:45 p.m., when swaths of the Wells Fargo Center arena were empty – and without any extra time to tout his own record. On the final day of the convention, de Blasio was scheduled to address the New York delegation, but he had to leave before he had a chance to speak to participate in a forum on inequality.

AS THE FEATURED SPEAKER at a meeting in Philadelphia of the Working Families Party, a third party he has been closely involved with, de Blasio took the opportunity to lay out his own record that he said he achieved in the face of widespread skepticism if not outright opposition.

Among the victories he touted were his ambitious plan to create 200,000 units of affordable housing, a local paid sick leave law and higher wages for city employees. In addition, his administration implemented a rent freeze for two consecutive years, and its sharp reduction in stop-and-frisk policing has coincided with a drop in crime, despite the warnings of naysayers. Finally, an aggressive expansion of full-day prekindergarten “for all kids” put in

GOV. ANDREW CUOMO MEETS WITH U.S. SEN. BERNIE SANDERS AS THE SENATOR VISITED TO ADDRESS THE NEW YORK DELEGATION.

ON TUESDAY MORNING, hours after Sen. Bernie Sanders took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia to rally his diehard followers behind Hillary Clinton, he joined Gov. Andrew Cuomo to make the same case to the New York delegation. Repeating many of the themes from his prime-time speech on Monday night, the Democratic presidential runner-up went on to applaud Cuomo for several recent accomplishments, including the state’s $15 minimum wage and a groundbreaking paid family leave law. New York, Sanders proclaimed, is a “progressive leader in this country.”

Although the two men grinned broadly as they stood alongside each other at the podium in a spacious hotel ballroom in downtown Philadelphia, the pairing was an odd one: Sanders, the self-described socialist who has attracted a strong base of liberal support with his blunt

attacks on income inequality and Wall Street malfeasance; and Cuomo, who spent much of his first term in office as a budget-cutting, deal-making moderate in the mold of former President Bill Clinton.

But while introducing Sanders, Cuomo argued that New York is in line with the Vermont lawmaker’s thinking. “We are with the senator when we passed $15, the highest minimum wage in the United States of America, when we passed paid family leave, when we passed marriage equality, when we passed the ban on assault weapons,” Cuomo proclaimed, bringing the crowd to its feet. “We believe in progressive politics. We don’t just talk the talk, we walk the walk!”

One glaring absence during Cuomo’s speech was New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. De Blasio, who won the 2013 mayoral primary by moving to the left and seizing on dissatis-

NEW YORK CITY MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO SPEAKS TO A LESS-THAN-PACKED HOUSE.

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place over two years went from 20,000 children to 70,000 today.

“We, as progressives, are often challenged as to whether our ideas can work,” de Blasio told the WFP gathering. “Maybe people give us some credit – our heart’s in the right place, we care about people, care about the average man or woman – but can these ideas work? Often we have thrown in our face, you know, ‘A minimum wage increase, oh that’s going to lead to greater unemployment,’ ‘Paid sick leave, oh, businesses will go bankrupt, small businesses will suffer,’ time and time again. Common-sense progressive reforms work, and they make the economy stronger, they create a more inclusive, engaged economic environment.”

SO WHICH OF the two officials is New York’s foremost progressive leader? Several current and former elected officials said that the answer depends on how “progressive” is defined. If it’s based on core values and beliefs, de Blasio is the natural response.

But if it’s a matter of actual results, it’s more complicated.

“If you’re asking to compare Cuomo and de Blasio based on progressive history and values, obviously Bill de Blasio is more a progressive,” said Mark Green, the author, commentator and former public advocate of New York City. “Now remember, he served a progressive, Brooklyn brownstone district in the City Council, and now of course New York City – and Andrew

Cuomo represents the whole state.”

Cuomo started out as a “very centrist Democrat,” liberal on most social issues and center-right on many economic issues, like spending and the state budget, Green continued. The governor’s more recent shift to the left, Green argued, was in response to liberal pressure on issues like pre-K. “But he’s not very liberal instinctively unless people lobby him,” Green said. “He responds to pressure more than principle.”

Meanwhile, de Blasio has fundamentally liberal leanings on both social and fiscal matters. “Now they’ve ended up a bit more similar because the whole party has moved to a more progressive place,” Green said.

“Before Bernie Sanders, he proved whites were progressive. Look at the platform, look at Hillary Clinton, who is not running as a Bill Clinton Democrat – she’s running like a Barack Obama, Bill de Blasio, more liberal Democrat.”

AS THE WEEK went on, Cuomo continued to seize on more opportunities in Philadelphia to be in the spotlight – and to define, or perhaps to redefine, himself as the state’s leading progressive.

On Tuesday night, as Hillary Clinton made history as the first female presidential candidate formally nominated by a major party, it was Cuomo who formally submitted the 181 votes for her from her adopted home state. The governor, flanked by Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and other New York

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party luminaries, used his brief remarks to once again highlight his own achievements, including the wage hike, paid family leave and same-sex marriage. De Blasio stood with the delegation as the state's votes were tallied, but he was somewhat apart from Cuomo and was left out of the camera for viewers watching at home.

On the final day of the convention, Cuomo once again upstaged de Blasio with a 15-minute speech. He told a stadium packed with Democratic delegates that Clinton understands what he and his father, Gov. Mario Cuomo, learned firsthand in their home state of New York – the value of empowering all Americans.

Just as the elder Cuomo contended in a keynote address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention that President Ronald Reagan's vision of a shining city on a hill overlooked the poor people, immigrants and other Americans who struggled their way to success, Cuomo said Democrats today were fighting for an America that values citizens of all backgrounds. Republicans, he argued, were exploiting anxieties by encouraging Americans to fear those who practice a different religion, speak another language or have a different complexion.

“The 1984 election was important because it was more about two opposing philosophies, more than two people,” Cuomo said. “Even more profoundly, at stake this November is not which person or party wins or loses – at stake in this election, my friends, is the very soul of America.”

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COMPETITION BRINGS DELEGATIONS TOGETHER As Philadelphia’s premier private club for power brokers of all political leanings, the Union League has been the site of many pitched ideological battles, none as tastily contested as the one Tuesday afternoon during the Democratic National Convention.

At City & State's “Cheesesteak vs. Cheesecake: A New York-Philly Food Fight,” sponsored

by Airbnb, 150 members of the New York and Pennsylvania delegations watched a panel of judges eat their way through each city’s most iconic foodstuffs to determine which city would earn bragging rights until the 2020 DNC. The idea for the event came from a friendly competition that developed between U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney and Pennsylvania U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle as both Brooklyn and Philadelphia vied for the right to host the 2016 DNC. “Brendan and I were competing against each other for the convention,” recalled Maloney. “I said to Brendan, let’s have a food fight when we have the convention. I thought we were just going to have the cheesecake and cheesesteak, the symbols of our cities.”

Ultimately, the event grew to include head-to-head competitions between such standbys as Katz’s pastrami on rye vs. DiNic’s roast pork with broccoli rabe and sharp provolone; Sarcone’s Italian hoagie vs. Russ & Daughters’ bagel and lox; a Federal soft pretzel vs. Lombardi’s pizza; Termini’s cannoli vs. Greenberg’s black-and-white cookie; and Pat’s cheesesteak vs. Junior’s cheesecake.

In the end, the judges named Philadelphia’s spread superior, but what do you expect? Philly had the home field advantage.

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MILWAUKEE COUNTY SHERIFF DAVID CLARKE JR. SPEAKS AT THE RNC.

Whose lives matter?

The debate over race rages on at the national nominating conventions

AT THE DEMOCRATIC National Convention in Philadelphia, first lady Michelle Obama reminded the audience how far the country has come from its roots in slavery.

President Barack Obama spoke of overcoming the “racial divides” that persist in America and drew an analogy between “the worry black parents feel when their son leaves the house” and “what a brave cop’s family feels when he puts on the blue and goes to work.” Rep. John Lewis, a leader of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, applauded his party for following its selection of Obama as the first African-American presidential nominee eight years ago with another history-making choice in Hillary Clinton.

At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, the party invoked the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana who was introduced to the nation as the Republican Party’s vice presidential nominee, said during his acceptance speech that King was one of his childhood heroes. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. reminded the delegates of King’s writings about

“the basic morality of the rule of law, provided that it is applied equally to both the wealthy and the impoverished, both men and women, and yes, the majority and the minority.” And Larry Kudlow, the commentator and CNBC contributor, recited several lines from King’s famous “I have a dream” speech in an address to New York’s GOP delegation.

But in a time of tense race relations across the country and anxieties over fatal shootings by police officers and retaliatory assassinations of law enforcement figures, both political parties used the spotlight of their national nominating conventions to rally their base. In Philadelphia, convention organizers were criticized for failing to include family members of police officers killed in the line of duty, and only belatedly announced a few law enforcement figures added to the lineup. In a prime-time appearance in the convention hall at the Wells Fargo Center, a group of mothers of men, women and children whose deaths have enraged the black community – Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland – took to the stage to call for reforms, bringing

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the crowd to its feet and spurring chants of “Black lives matter!”

In Cleveland, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has frequently pinned the blame on blacks for the violence in their own communities, stole the show on the opening night by highlighting the fear plaguing Americans and the threats to police officers “being targeted with a target on their back.” CNBC’s Kudlow rebuked Obama for saying that young blacks need to be told to be careful around police officers, arguing that what’s needed instead is for fathers to “tell these kids that the cops are their friend and they’re trying to help you and save your life.” And Clarke, the African-American sheriff from Milwaukee County, soberly reminded the delegates of the shooting deaths of two Baton Rouge police officers and a sheriff’s deputy a day earlier. But Clarke added there was “good news,” too: One of the Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man killed in a police transport van, was acquitted earlier that day.

“Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to make something very clear: Blue lives

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matter in America!” Clarke proclaimed.

In contrast with King and his movement, Clarke said, today’s demonstrators are neither peaceful nor productive. “What we witnessed in Ferguson and Baltimore and Baton Rouge was a collapse of the social order,” he said. “So many actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcends peaceful protest and violates the code of conduct we rely on. I call it anarchy.”

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A FEW MILES outside of the RNC security zone in Cleveland, in a shabbier part of the city where homes have fallen into disrepair, the scholar and activist Cornel West stood before a largely African-American crowd at the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church.

West, a Bernie Sanders supporter who has refused to endorse Clinton since she won the Democratic primary, saved his sharpest criticism for those he said were co-opting the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. He vehemently rejected what he described as a revisionist view of King and attempts to appropriate his words to political ends.

“We lie to young people when we tell them that everybody loved Martin, that’s a lie!” West thundered, reminding the audience that King was handcuffed and locked up for his actions. “They love him now that the worms got his body and the Lord got his soul, but when he was here, he was a challenge, not just to the white status quo but to the black political establishment, too, and the church establishment!”

A week later at the DNC in Philadelphia,

Rep. Charles Rangel dismissed the GOP’s embrace of King and the unfavorable comparisons with the Black Lives Matter movement. “I marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, and believe me, he caught hell being out there,” Rangel said. “You don’t bust into somebody’s house just because you’ve got Jesus on your side and say that you’re a sissy man. He was just as bold and courageous in walking into the fire knowing that he was bringing out violence and got killed for it. They didn’t want Martin Luther King when he was here, they didn’t want Malcolm X when they were here, they didn’t want Adam Clayton Powell when they were here, but something happens when people die. ‘Why can’t you be like the others who are dead?’ Hell, no.”

Yet many Republicans and conservatives have continued to simultaneously praise King and blast Black Lives Matter, both the movement and the term itself, calling it racist. Some have responded with the phrase “All lives matter,” and in the wake of a string of recent shootings of police and law enforcement officers, Sheriff Clarke and others have latched onto the motto “Blue lives matter.”

But Rangel isn’t buying it. “If I was representing crippled children, and I was to say that crippled children matter, is there an inference at all that kids that don’t have physical impairments don’t count?” he asked.

“If I was talking about blind people, and I would say people without sight should count for something and be included in society, the inference is so abundantly clear that hu-

MOTHERS OF THOSE WHOSE DEATHS HAVE ENRAGED THE BLACK COMMUNITY ON STAGE AT THE DNC.

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man beings matter, Americans matter, men and women matter, children matter, and nobody should, because of their color, have their lives diminished in our great country – we’ve been saying this since slavery.”

ON THE SURFACE, at least, the racial line between the two parties and the two nominees could not be clearer. Donald Trump, the Republican standard-bearer, has been widely accused of racism for suggesting that Mexican immigrants are rapists, for calling for a ban on Muslims entering the country, and for equivocating when asked about the endorsement of a former member of the KKK. Trump’s claim that a judge of Mexican heritage couldn’t be impartial in a court case involving his Trump University drew condemnation even from within his own party.

Clinton, meanwhile, is credited with winning the Democratic primary thanks in large part to the support of African Americans in the South. Obama won more than 90 percent of the black vote in 2008 and 2012, and Clinton could come close to those numbers too, even as many young black activists remain wary of her. While relatively few blacks were present at the convention proceedings in Cleveland, minorities were a strong presence in Philadelphia.

But in the New York GOP, some party members are trying to strike a more conciliatory tone. Michel Faulkner, an African-American pastor in Harlem and former member of the New York Jets who is now running for mayor of New York City as a Republican, said his party “should be known as the party of inclusion, but unfortunately we’ve lost our way, and that’s unfortunate.”

Faulkner said the party needs to return to its roots. “We are a party that began around the idea of liberation,” he said, “the party of Lincoln, the party of Frederick Douglass.”

Yet Faulkner, like the most Republicans, is a loyal Trump supporter. “I think Donald Trump is a solution,” he said, downplaying the candidate’s controversial remarks as “gaffes” and insisting he had never heard Trump make a disparaging remark about African Americans. “I think he is a way forward, and it’s not just talking about party. I supported Barack Obama the first time around. I’m not a knee-jerk conservative that is only going to support somebody because they have an R after their name. I want to vote for the best person. I’ve been disappointed with what’s happened with our president. Clearly race is not the answer.

We’ve had a black president, and the African-American community is further behind than they were eight years ago.”

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In a state that takes pride in its diversity, what can be done better? City & State brought together elected officials, policymakers, entrepreneurs and more for a spirited discussion.

Over a series of speeches, panels and interviews on Tuesday, July 19, at NYU’s Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, they talked about diversity of race and gender in government and business, asking questions about what more can be done to level the playing field. Participants looked beyond platitudes about the importance of diversity. They talked about race and economic inequality, sexism in government and a perceived lack of public will to take action.

Sponsored by Capalino + Company, CGI Group, the NYC SCA, the MTA, HAKS Engineers, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, Bradford Construction, Velocity Architecture & Engineering Design Services, CDW-G, AlliedBarton, NYU, LaGuardia Gateway Partners and JPP Inc., it was a conference filled with people who take action to improve diversity. As state Sen. James Sanders said in a panel, “There are things that we can do to make any program better and there are hardworking people … who do get up at five in the morning to do these things.”

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‘Be the change agents’

Keynote remarks by Alphonso David, counsel to the governor The governor’s top lawyer kicked off the event with a poignant reminder of why a public forum on diversity is so important. “Not only do we get to discuss strategies that address economic inequality, but we also have an opportunity to take a deep dive and examine the underlying issues of what (discrimination) is – which is fear and indifference.”

David proudly touted the Cuomo administration’s record on diversity: enacting marriage equality, doubling MWBE certification and utilization, securing civil rights for transgender New Yorkers and more. Here’s some of what he had to say:

“We will continue to meet challenges, we will continue to meet roadblocks. The fears that we cannot modify the MWBE program exists. The fear that we cannot do something differently because it’s been done the same way for 30 years exists. The fear that we cannot change the existing narrative exists. We cannot let those roadblocks derail us. And when I say ‘us’ I mean all of us. I mean the very wealthy majority partner as well as the MWBE partner who is starting out his or her own new firm and can’t make ends meet.”

“We have to be the change agents. And I know we hear this all the time, but each of us in our own way can actually transform the landscape, transform the narrative. When you see that MWBE firm that is struggling, give them a hand. … When we create the narrative of inclusion and diversity. When we create the narrative that all of us have a seat at the table, let’s stop thinking about whether or not that takes something away from us, because it doesn’t diminish us. It actually empowers us. And I mean all of us.”

“Let’s contribute by engaging in a meaningful dialogue that will allow us to take the next step forward. We could be determining how to hire or retain talented minorities and women in executive and leadership positions. It could mean how do MWBEs partner with each other to create greater opportunities for themselves as well as others. It could mean how could majority firms mentor minority MWBEs to increase capacity and overall success. It could mean how could majority forms create consortiums to support MWBEs in both the public and private spaces. This may not seem like much given what is going on in the world, but every sincere, concrete step forward is progress that has yet to be realized and in many cases we cannot even conceptualize.”

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Still a long way to go A conversation with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries As the whip of the Congressional Black Caucus, Jeffries is part of the “conscience of Congress.” And as a frequent critic of Mayor Bill de Blasio, the Brooklyn congressman has been floated as a potential rival come 2017 – though he insists he won’t run. He covered some of the big diversity issues in New York and beyond in a Q&A with Slant Editor Nick Powell. Here’s some of what he had to say:

ON WORKING TO CULTIVATE DIVERSITY IN THE TECH SECTOR: “We wanted to make sure that people of all races and backgrounds and genders had opportunity to get access to a field that really provides a tremendous capability for people to robustly pursue the American dream. Many of these jobs have entry-level salaries in excess of $80,000, sometimes without even having a college education as long as you have the coding or computer science programming experience.”

ON DE BLASIO’S AFFORDABLE HOUSING PLAN: “In terms of (Mayor de Blasio’s) plan to try to create and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing, it’s a big numbers, but it’s an appropriately ambitious number in terms of trying to deal with the magnitude of the affordable housing crisis that we confront throughout the city.”

ON POLICE SHOOTINGS OF BLACK AMERICANS: “There’s no accountability in almost every instance, and then the cycle continues.

That’s why we see the anger and the frustration and the dismay across the board. At the same time, I think we have to recognize that the overwhelming majority of police officers are hardworking public servants there to protect and serve. And the challenge that we have is you got a handful of individuals who cross the line. When they cross the line there’s often no accountability and in some instances the culture, if not encouraging the behavior, at least tolerates it. Tolerates it through their silence or through their inaction or through lack of meaningful discipline.”

ON BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR FIREARMS PURCHASES: “Across the country, we’ve got more gun shops in America than McDonald’s and Starbucks combined, but beyond that you’ve got gun shows where background checks are not applicable. And then anyone can go on the internet and purchase a gun without a background check.

So we thought just closing the background check loophole, which 90 percent of the American people support, was reasonable.”

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BREAKING THROUGH:

WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT THE SESSION ON women in government had an interesting wrinkle from the moment the panelists took the stage: two of them were men. City Councilman Dan Garodnick and Stony Brook Professor Michael Kimmel were a strong visual representation of one of the central topics discussed: including men in discussions about sexism and so-called “women’s issues.” The women on the panel, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic, were able to speak to that, as well as the topic they know well: leading from the front and getting women involved in government – despite the sexism.

Here’s some of what they had to say:

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Even as one of the most powerful people in New York City, Mark-Viverito spoke of her personal agency being questioned because of her gender. “There’s this assumption that when there’s a tough decision has to be made, somehow (when) I made a decision, I’m in the pocket of the mayor,” she said. Mark-Viverito had recently been criticized in the press and by social justice advocates unhappy with her decision to leave so-called “right to know” reforms up the NYPD. Proposed legislation that would have police officers give their own

identifying information at the end of a police encounter had wide support in the Council, but Mark-Viverito chose not to bring it to a vote. “(Critics thought) somehow, I had to be forced into that because I could not have made that decision on my own. That’s sexist. And when I say it’s sexist, what do I get back? ‘Oh you’re always throwing the sexism card around.’”

Rozic too spoke of the particular struggles of being the youngest woman ever elected to the New York state Legislature. “I face both the dose of sexism but also ageism, which is a lethal combination at times,” she said.

Rozic spoke of having conversations in the Capitol hallways with other lawmakers and being taken for a staffer, a girlfriend or a wife. “I am at fault, sometimes I don’t wear that pin who identifies who you are,” she said. “But I shouldn’t have to wear that pin in order to be recognized as one of 150, someone whose vote is just as equal as the next person.”

Of course, being a woman in politics almost automatically makes you a cheerleader for the cause of getting more women into elected positions. Rozic noted that being a young assemblywoman comes with the challenge of countering what leadership is supposed to look like. She tells people, “You can be young, you can be a leader. You can look like me and be

an assembly member.”

Like Rozic, Mark-Viverito spoke about representing diversity in more than just gender. She is not only the first Puerto Rican Latina City Council speaker, she said, she also represents the second-poorest district in the city. “Those experiences help shape the decisions we make and the laws we make and the policies we set forth,” MarkViverito said. “Having Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court, we’ve seen the value of the perspective that she brings. That’s how we break it down. That’s how we uproot those inequalities and those sentiments, is by forcing there to be a reality check.”

GETTING MEN IN ON ‘WOMEN’S ISSUES’

“White men are the greatest beneficiary of affirmative action in the history of the world,” Professor Michael Kimmel said as he opened up the discussion. “It’s called the history of the world.” And yet, the Stony Brook sociology professor said, most men – of all races – think that gender does not matter to them. He distilled decades of study of men and gender into a call to action to all those at the On Diversity conference: “We cannot fully empower women and girls unless we engage boys and men.” After all, Kimmel said, men too have a stake in what

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are generally considered “women’s issues.”

Men are sexual partners when it comes to reproductive rights, fellow students when it comes to campus sexual assault, and are involved in every issue as fathers.

Mark-Viverito made her own pitch, explaining that she needs allies on all fronts when it comes to advancing a progressive agenda. “That’s why I’m an ally on the LGBT struggles, that’s why I’m forceful about immigration rights,” she said.

“Because I know that the rights that I have,

and the privileges I have or that I want for myself, are ones that I want everyone else to have.”

In one of the most intimate moments in a panel that was full of personal stories, Councilman Dan Garodnick talked about his shifting attitude toward family leave.

He took time off from work when each of his sons was born, calling it “a perfectly natural thing to do.” But even as he willingly and happily spent time with his newborn children, he felt uncomfortable

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telling people he was doing it. “I wanted to project to anybody who asked me that I was constantly on my phone … that I wasn’t missing a beat, that everything was seamless, and that I was not off the grid even for a moment,” he said.

But Garodnick’s view of family leave, traditionally considered a “women’s issue,” changed over time, especially after a conversation with his wife. “If I were to go back and do this again, I would shout that family leave from the rooftops,” he said. “I am here to proudly tell everybody that I took it. Not only took it once, took it twice and even took some extra time … It’s important for men to say publicly that they’re doing it.”

Garodnick’s experience is not unique.

According to Kimmel, men often become allies to women’s issues through their relationships with the women they love.

Men then just have to generalize those feelings and politicize them. “You want to find an instant feminist?” he asked. “Talk to a man whose daughter just hit puberty. And he will tell you, ‘Oh my god, there are boys out there who are looking at my daughter the way I was taught to look at girls. This has got to stop today.’”

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MODERATOR MONSIGNOR KEVIN SULLIVAN WITH PANELISTS CARRA WALLACE, MICHELE TITUS, JEANNE MULLGRAV, LETITIA JAMES AND MICHAEL GARNER.

THE SESSION WAS titled “creating a culture of belonging, inclusion and diversity,” but the panelists were more focused on economic inequality. And on that front, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James saw another battle. “We need to heal the rift between our governor and our mayor for the sake of New York state and the sake of New York City,” she said, saying the pair’s “political games” are having a serious negative impact on life in the city and state, “including, but not limited to, the crisis in affordable housing, growing homelessness, the lack of supportive housing and the failure to focus jointly on WMBEs.” James has not been afraid to criticize the feuding pair, once even evoking a proverb to City & State that “when elephants fight, ants get trampled.” Her comments were merely the most biting instance among many from the panelists critiquing both the public and private sectors for not doing enough.

James was joined on the panel by the city

“WE NEED TO TRAIN OUR CITIZENS IN THOSE JOBS (IN GROWING INDUSTRIES) AS A WAY OF BRINGING CALMNESS BACK TO OUR MAJOR CITIES … AND IF NOT, WE’RE IN FOR A VERY LONG ROAD. IT’S GOING TO BE THE HAVES VERSUS THE HAVE-NOTS.” – MICHAEL GARNER

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“OUR SCHOOLS ARE MORE SEGREGATED NOW THAN THEY WERE IN THE ’60S AND ’70S, AND THAT’S UNACCEPTABLE.” – LETITIA JAMES Comptroller’s Chief Diversity Officer Carra Wallace, MTA Chief Diversity Officer Michael Garner, Assemblywoman Michele Titus and Capalino + Company Executive Vice President Jeanne Mullgrav. The discussion, moderated by Monsignor Kevin Sullivan of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, touched on a number of concrete ways the government and private companies could fight inequality through employment while lamenting the lack of action.

Responding to Sullivan’s question about what big actions could be taken to enhance workplace diversity, Garner hearkened back to the ambitious federal urban aid and jobs programs of the early 1970s. He called

for paid job training programs “that lead to where openings are going to be,” whether that’s education, health care or his own sector of transportation.

Garner also focused on inequality. “We need to train our citizens in those jobs as a way of bringing calmness back to our major cities,” he said. “And if not, we’re in for a very long road. It’s going to be the haves versus the have-nots.”

His comments apparently impressed James, as she recommended hiring Garner as the city’s CEO as part of her multi-pronged approach to fighting inequality. On that: creating a public-private partnership to increase job opportunities in the private sector, and

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adding a chief diversity officer to the Department of Education. “Our schools are more segregated now than they were in the ’60s and ’70s, and that’s unacceptable,” she said.

Again connecting diversity with inequality, James called on New Yorkers in positions of power to hire MWBEs in areas beyond just construction. “We need to broaden our view and our vision of diversity and recognize that this is a moral issue if we are truly committed to addressing income inequality and raising up all boats,” she said.

Wallace explained how the New York City Comptroller’s Office uses its influence as an investor to push for greater racial and gender diversity on corporate boards, “because leadership starts at the top.”

“This can be solved, it’s not rocket science and we just have to get the right people to make these things happen,” Wallace said.

Mullgrav called for rewarding firms that do hire a diverse workforce before echoing Wallace’s comments. “This is not rocket science,” she said. “There are plenty of ideas that you heard today. There are plenty of people who can implement them. I think it’s a matter of will at this point.

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Tips of the trade: Improving the state’s MWBE program The MWBE experts of the last panel of the day were full of tips for business owners looking to do business with the state, but they had just as many tips forw how the state government can improve its MWBE program. Assembly MWBE Oversight Committee Chairwoman Rodneyse Bichotte and state Sen. James Sanders, two of the biggest advocates for the program in the legislature, went back and forth with another panelist who could speak for the state, Lourdes Zapata, executive director of Empire State Development’s Division of Minority and Women’s Business Development. While there was criticism, the panelists agreed on the big picture. After all, Sanders said, “there are things that we can do to make any program better and there are hardworking people – some of them sitting up right here on this panel – who do get up at five in the morning to do these things.” Here’s some of what they had to say:

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Sanders: “Even if you age out or grow out of the MWBE program, you’re not anywhere near large enough to compete with these giants. There needs to be a path of growth and the government has not done that yet. We need to consider it.”

“It really starts with the leadership, it really starts at the top. I have the honor of managing a program that not only has wide-reaching impact but really is incredibly supported at the highest levels. I have standing Friday morning calls with (Counsel to the Governor) Alphonso (David) – looking at the program, where is this program, what can we be doing better, what can we be implementing? We’re constantly looking at programming that can be put into place that supports the MWBE programs.”

Sanders: “We’re assuming justice is blind. We’re assuming the market is fair. I contend that justice is not only not blind, that there’s a finger on the till! The forces of prejudice and racism are alive and well and making it unable for people to have a fair market. Government must intercede and make sure that we can have a fair and free market.”

“We’ve looked at the supply of MWBE firms versus their utilization and looking at key industries that we see as being under-utilized, which are primarily in the professional services field. So we’re looking at IT, we’re looking at financial services, legal services.”

Bichotte: “I think it is important to look at small business size. Is that creating an impediment to our MWBEs graduating into being primes and being competitive with the larger markets?”

Bichotte: “We put legislation forward to do a feasibility study across the state of New York in looking at the agencies and what kind of similar programs we can do with each of the agencies to build capacity. We also want to focus not only on construction, but also on professional services, standard services, and goods and services because those are areas that are untapped … We need to start with capacity, putting infrastructure in place. Hopefully that is approved by the governor. Once that’s approved we’ll have funding aside to look at these agencies and start building programs across the state of New York.”

“We have implemented a program looking at the diversity practices of our primes. We now not just look at best value and the proposal that is being put forth by primes that are looking to engage in state contracting opportunities but we want to look at their history. How have they done in the past? Not just for this particular RFP, but what has been their experience, what’s been their engagement, what’s been their commitment to the MWBE community, and that becomes part of our scoring moving forward.”

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DORMITORY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, or DASNY, as it’s widely referred to, does indeed build dormitories.

But it does so much more than that.

Established more than 70 years ago, when the state was scrambling to meet growing demand for higher education spurred by the G.I. Bill, DASNY over time has expanded its scope and financed hundreds of government infrastructure projects.

While its activities and inner workings remain largely unknown to the population at large, it plays a critical role in the financing of everything from college and university buildings to hospitals to government offices. In a sign of how useful the authority is to the governor and his administration, the state this year created a new body within DASNY to oversee major infrastructure projects across the state.

In City & State’s insider’s guide to DASNY, we provide readers with insights from its president, a snapshot of the authority’s key statistics, a rundown of its top staffers and an analysis of its budget.

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A Q&A WITH DASNY PRESIDENT GERARD BUSHELL

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WHAT IS DASNY, ANYWAY?

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DASNY BUDGET ANALYSIS

By JAMISON DAGUE

THE ORG CHART: DASNY’S TOP DEPUTIES ABOVE: DASNY RECENTLY ISSUED A $350 MILLION BOND FOR THE STATE OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH’S BRONX BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FACILITY, ABOVE.

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The king of DASNYland A Q&A with DASNY President Gerrard Bushell C&S: What does DASNY do? What role does it have in state government?

GB: Everyone who knows something about DASNY has really focused on the historic underpinning of the message of the New York State Dormitory Authority, so we build and finance dormitories – well, we do a lot more than that. It’s part of what we do, but given that we are one of the largest public builders in the state and certainly in the nation and we continue to build for two of our largest clients, which would be the City University of New York and the State University of New York. At the end of the day, a state is only as good as the infrastructure that has put in place, and obviously you need to have roads, tunnels, bridges, because you need to move and transport people, goods, services.

New York is at the top of that, and that’s one of the reasons we were leaders coming out of early American history, just by nature of the Hudson River and Erie County. We at DASNY, on behalf of the state, working with the (state) Department of Education, working with the (state) Department of Health, through our financing capability and our construction capability, ensure that New York state is a magnet of opportunity and inclusivity in respect to how we care for people across this state and having some of the finest health care institutions in the world and having some of the finest educational institutions in the world.

C&S: In your annual report, Cuomo mentioned he has called on DASNY to help New York recover from storms and for storm preparation. Through the New York Works initiative, how has DASNY’s role changed and expanded in the last several years to help the state deal with climate change?

GB: When (Superstorm) Sandy came about, I think one of the key things that was very

important was to get into the communities as quickly as possible and to understand, “How can we build a resilient infrastructure to withstand the next series of storms, but also repair the damages?”

The governor has called on DASNY to do that. We work very closely with the governor’s office on a multiplicity of projects.

These projects are different in scope from many of the projects we started with historically. We’re known for big infrastructure, so when you think of universities and health care institutions, you probably tend to think about campuses in either case and we build that and we’re known for that. Many of our newer projects, particularly as it relates to storm recovery are smaller: they’re homes, they’re generators. So, it’s really propping up the infrastructure and repairing the infrastructure that was damaged.

C&S: Both CUNY and SUNY have greatly expanded in recent years as the state invests more into the two university systems. What are some of the challenges DASNY has faced keeping up with rapidly growing systems?

GB: New York state represents best in class unequivocally – we have many institutions that come to us and they’re looking for cheap financing because we can provide the lowest cost of capital based on issuing as a tax-exempt authority on their behalf, so we can do that. We can get it to the market quickly and more importantly, investors know the credit of the state. The challenge for people today is, “Where do you put your money?” New York state is still a quality credit, it is a very important credit. DASNY is one of the stellar credits alongside New York state, so our debt is purchased and it’s generally oversubscribed.

Our higher education and health care institutions are enabled to meet their goals and objectives to plan for changes in the future

and confront uncertainty. We don’t know all the problems and challenges, but we do know that higher education, there’s a higher cost to it, there’s a higher multiple, health care costs have grown and each of these industries have to rethink how they provide services, how they can be competitive and how they can be inclusive. We live in a world where change is fairly immediate. It doesn’t just happen every five years, 10 years, it happens fairly quickly, and so we don’t make the decisions for these institutions, but we do partner with them and try to be problem solvers. Our culture here is really being a problem solver, being pragmatic and focusing on building value-added partnerships.

C&S: DASNY recently completed its highest value project in its history. What other big projects are in DASNY’s future?

GB: We’re doing a project with (CUNY) with the Fashion Institution of Technology and we are probably one of the few large capital development projects for the city university system. A lot of stuff that we’re doing with them right now is maintenance. We’re doing work in Staten Island with respect to the office of mental health. We have a sizable project that we’re working on that we think is really going to be an economic development engine and help as the renaissance of Staten Island. We continue to do work upstate with the SUNY system. We have a big project in Brockport that we’re commencing. We’re doing work with Alfred University and Geneseo, so it runs the gamut. The nature of capital work today is a little different from what it was a number of years ago. The large projects, it goes in cycles and we’re seeing many more smaller and mid-sized projects, as we talked to you about the work we’re doing with storm recovery and a lot of the rehab work. We on the things we continuously do is summer work for SUNY, that’s a big thing.

I think we’re going to (provide permitting) and partner with the Empire State Development Corporation with Javits (Center), that’s a very important project for the governor.

We’re going to (provide permitting) with (ESDC) on some aspects of (Farley Post Office Moynihan Station). Those are two very important projects. There are other things out there – but it’s a little early.

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Just the Facts TODAY DASNY finances and builds higher education, health care, mental health, court and other public-purpose facilities. Recently, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered the authority to work with the state Department of Environmental Conservation to help the state recover from natural disasters and storm prevention. Additionally, it works with the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to beautify state parks and attract more visitors.

The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York was founded in 1944 to finance and build residence halls at the state’s public colleges to accommodate soldiers who were returning from World War II and going to college in large numbers under the GI bill.

The authority was recognized by both The Bond Buyer and Reuters as the top taxexempt bond issuer in the nation in the 2015 calendar year. In the 2016 fiscal year, it issued a record $8.3 billion in bonds – $1.5 billion higher than its previous record in 2009 – and ended the fiscal year with 1,068 construction projects in the pipeline valued at

$5.8 billion.

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Columbia University’s Manhattanville Campus Columbia’s new campus will span more than 17 acres, from Broadway to 125th Street to the Hudson River waterfront. The campus will home the Jerome L. Greene Science Center, for which DASNY issued a $50 million bond.

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DASNY issued a $350 million bond for the state Office of Mental Health’s new behavioral health facility in the Bronx. The project contains six buildings of more than 436,000 square feet, which includes indoor and outdoor recreation areas, motivational education settings and comfortable living quarters.

STORM RECOVERY AND PREVENTION CUNY’s Advanced Science Research Center and the Center for Discovery and Innovation DASNY bonded about $700 million for CUNY’s glass-enclosed laboratory and is adjacent to a new state-of-the-art science building – the highest valued project in DASNY’s history. Both facilities were completed in 2016.

In response to the increasing frequency of national disasters and powerful storms, DASNY is now partnering with the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery to provide about

$166 million in bonds for about 60 projects aimed at storm prevention.

$8.3 billion Bonds delivered

$1.52 billion Public financing

$691.4 million Private higher education financing

MWBE CONTRACTING In effort to expand and promote minority-owned and women-owned businesses, DASNY has bonded more than

$1 billion in work

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to MWBE construction firms, subcontractors and suppliers, constructionrelated professional service firms, commodities and services firms, accounting companies and legal firms.

$503.6 million

Private health care financing

$47.3 billion Bond portfolio

$111.9 billion

Total financed projects since founding

$309 million

New construction contracts

$118.1 million MWBE expenditures

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WDF Inc. congratulates DASNY for delivering exceptional construction and financing services throughout New York State for over 70 years.

WDF Inc. has had the privilege to work with DASNY on the Court Officers Training Academy and John Jay Harren Hall and many other projects.

WDF Inc. is one of the nation’s leading plumbing, HVAC, and specialty general contracting companies.

As an equal opportunity employer with a state-of-the-art compliance program, we are passionate about providing opportunities for M/W/L/DBEs in our procurement of goods and services on our projects. We encourage all M/W/L/DBEs to contact our M/W/L/DBE & EEO Officer, J. Naomi Glean, at (914) 776-8000 or NGlean@wdfinc.net to work on our DASNY projects.

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The Deep Dive

An analysis by the Citizens Budget Commission

By JAMISON DAGUE

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$32.3 billion THE DORMITORY AUTHORITY of the State of New York (DASNY) is a public benefit corporation that manages construction of buildings and provides low-cost financing for public and nonprofit institutions.

Initially established in 1944 to finance and construct dormitories, DASNY’s portfolio has expanded to include higher education, health care, mental health, courts and other public works. In fiscal year 2016 DASNY borrowed $2.8 billion on behalf of other entities and managed more than 1,000 projects, from which it earns transaction fees.

DASNY’s expertise in project management has made it the home for the newly created Design and Construction Corporation (DCC), an entity intended to monitor major public works and make recommendations for improving their management.

DASNY THE BORROWER

DASNY is one of the largest financiers of social infrastructure in the United States: At the end of fiscal year 2015 DASNY had more than $47 billion in debt outstand-

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ing. The largest share of this debt, $32 billion, has been issued on behalf of the state and its municipalities and is repaid directly with taxes and fees. Another portion – $10 billion, or 21 percent – is on behalf of independent colleges and universities as well as other non-health care related nonprofit organizations. The smallest – $4.9 billion, or 10 percent – is debt outstanding on behalf of nonprofit health care entities.

DASNY became a prominent financing institution for two reasons. First, it provides low-cost capital: it makes tax-exempt financing available to nonprofit institutions, and can be an alternative source of financing for local governments and public universities with poor credit ratings. In fiscal year 2016, all but one of DASNY’s public debt issuances were rated A3 or higher by Moody’s and A- or higher by Standard and Poor’s.

Second, DASNY has greater flexibility to borrow than the state: Public authorities can borrow on behalf of the state with legislative authorization, while state general obligation debt requires voter approval under the

state Constitution. According to the New York State Comptroller’s Office, this type of “backdoor borrowing” has grown from $35 billion in fiscal year 2003 to $48 billion as of the end of fiscal year 2015. Of this amount, $24 billion is attributed to DASNY borrowing for public facilities. This debt remains the state’s obligation and counts against the debt limit when the state is contractually or otherwise obligated to repay the debt from its resources.

DASNY THE BUILDER

In fiscal year 2016 DASNY managed construction projects with a cumulative value of nearly $6 billion. This included the completion of the $687 million Advance Science Research Center on the campus of City College of New York in Harlem and $120 million for eight Homeless Housing Assistance Corporation projects located across the state.

DASNY has developed a reputation for getting projects done efficiently, and the number of projects managed by DASNY has doubled since 2006 from 450 to 1,068 in 2016. In order to harness its expertise to improve the record of other agencies that oversee major public works, State leaders created the New York State Design and Construction Corporation (DCC). The DCC, housed under DASNY and to be led by a three-member board designated by the governor, will be tasked with overseeing any state public works project greater than $50 million. DCC will monitor these projects and identify risks for delays, cost overruns or quality deficiencies, and provide recommendations to the managing entity.

The DCC is not yet up and running and how it will exercise its authority is still unclear. Additional guidance in capital planning and construction management may help illuminate important weaknesses, or may simply constitute a redundant and unneeded layer of oversight that will blur the lines of responsibility and accountability.

The DCC can make recommendations, and the project’s sponsor has the right to refuse them; however, it must justify and document the refusal, and many public entities may not wish to reverse the DCC or incur the added costs in time and resources to do so.

CONCLUSION

Whether as a borrower or a builder, DASNY is an important state entity for infrastructure investment, and its expertise will continue to help New York state, its municipalities, and nonprofits design, construct, and finance public-purpose infrastructure.

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Cusack is responsible for all legal services, including legislation, litigation, contract matters and the legal aspects of all DASNY financings. He is licensed to practice law in New York and Massachusetts, as well as the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. Cusack has over 20 years of combined legal experience, including management of an in-house legal department and external counsel teams (and budgets) across a five-state region.

GENERAL COUNSEL

Corrigan assists the president in the administration and operation of DASNY. He came to DASNY in 1995 as budget director, and served as deputy chief financial officer from 2000 until 2003. He began his government service career in 1983 as a budget analyst for Rensselaer County and served as the county’s budget director from 1986 to 1995. Immediately before coming to DASNY, he served as the appointed Rensselaer County executive

VICE PRESIDENT

MICHAEL E. CUSACK

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The key players behind the scenes

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Spann provides leadership and direction for the four Specialized Services and Client Solutions departments, which include Information Technology, Real Property, Environmental Affairs and Sustainability. Most recently Spann worked as an executive consultant, on behalf of venture capital and private equity firms, to private companies particularly in capital generation and fund placement, as well as business operation and execution and capital projection improvement. She has over 20

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF SPECIALIZED SERVICES AND CLIENT SOLUTIONS

CAPRICE G. SPANN

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Lee is responsible for supervising and directing DASNY bond issuance in the capital markets, implementing and overseeing financing programs, overseeing DASNY’s compliance with continuing disclosure requirements and monitoring the financial condition of existing DASNY clients. Lee previously served as senior investment officer at the state Comptroller’s Office, where she was responsible for assisting in the administration of the long-term fixed income

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND PORTFOLIO MONITORING

PORTIA LEE

PRESIDENT AND CEO

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for a short period. Corrigan holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and a master of arts degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts.

Curro is responsible for DASNY’s construction groups, including design, project management, resource acquisition, contract administration, interior design and engineering, as well as other technical services. Curro joined DASNY in 2001 as director of technical services, and most recently served as director of construction support services. He is a registered professional engineer in New York and has worked in the construction industry for more than 30 years. He holds a bachelor of science in civil engineering from the University of Rhode Island, a master of engineering in structural engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master of business administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lally School of Management.

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF CONSTRUCTION

STEPHEN D. CURRO

He most recently served as of counsel to the Albany law firm of Young/Sommer LLC, where his practice included representation of upstate New York municipalities, telecommunications service providers in the siting of public utility/personal wireless service facilities and other private sector clients. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Siena College and a J.D. from Albany Law School of Union University.

Corrigan assists the president in the administration and operation of DASNY. He came to DASNY in 1995 as budget director, and served as deputy chief financial officer from 2000 until 2003. He began his government service career in 1983 as a budget analyst for Rensselaer County and served as the county’s budget director from 1986 to 1995. Immediately before coming to DASNY, he served as the appointed Rensselaer County executive for a short period. Corrigan holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh and a master of arts degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts.

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portfolio of the New York State Common Retirement Fund, as well as the shortterm portfolio, and the Securities Lending Program. From 1995 to 2005 Lee worked at Moody’s Investors Service, where she most recently served as vice president and senior credit officer in the Public Finance Housing Group. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from the State University of New York at Albany.

Nadeau is responsible for supervising DASNY’s investment program, general accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, financial reporting functions, budget, payroll and insurance, as well as the development and implementation of financial policies, financial management systems and internal controls for financial reporting. She previously was vice president-accounting and controller for US Light Energy. Prior to that she was vice president-accounting and controller for CH Energy Group Inc. and held various positions culminating in a director level position at Northeast Utilities.

Nadeau also held various positions with increasing responsibility at Coopers & Lybrand LLP. She holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting, a master of business administration with a concentration in management and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut. She is licensed to practice law in New York and Connecticut.

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years of experience in finance and insurance at American International Group, where she held many positions including director of alternative risk and account executive for General Motors. Spann holds a bachelor of arts in international relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master of business administration from Fordham University in New York.

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CAN ADRIANO ESPAILLAT HEAL THE FRACTURED 13TH DISTRICT?

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he election of Adriano Espaillat in the June 28 New York Democratic Primary that has positioned him to become the first Dominican-American to serve in Congress was historic in several ways.

But as the dust settles on Espaillat’s victory, it is important to acknowledge the many challenges ahead, including the fact that Espaillat won with only 36 percent of the vote (and by a margin of only a few points), meaning that close to two-thirds of the district’s voters did not support him. This means that he will have to reach out politically to those outside of the Dominican community – African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, whites, Mexicans and others – to develop a viable long-term coalition. However, a low percentage of support for the winner in a tightly contested primary is common and not necessarily an indicator of either electoral success or failure.

There are other challenges that a Congressman Espaillat would confront.

These include: Managing African-American political resentment. Espaillat would become the highest-ranking elected official in Northern Manhattan, an area covering

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close to 800,000 people, 55 percent of whom are Latino, 34 percent black and 17 percent white. However, when it comes to eligibility to vote, blacks could outnumber Latinos largely because of the difference in citizenship status.

The black political presence in the district has also been institutionalized more completely than that of Latinos.

Keith Wright, for example, is leader of the New York County Democratic Party and has served as co-chairman of the state Democratic Party. In addition, a wide array of black-led community institutions provide a strong civic infrastructure in the black community that does not have a comparable equivalent in the Latino community.

Some argue that the racial-ethnic boundaries between blacks and Latinos

are more porous than this would imply, given the growing racial consciousness of Afro-Latinos. However, in contrast to such movements in Latin America and the Caribbean that have taken political forms in advocating for greater racial equality, within the United States, these movements have largely remained cultural. For Afro-Latinos, the dilemma of being a racial-ethnic “minority within a minority” makes their explicitly political mobilizing problematic. The result is that in the political sphere, the distinction between being black and Latino remains a daily reality requiring ongoing coalitionand community-building efforts on the part of both communities.

Overcoming Dominican insularism. The political development of the Dominican community has been defined in many

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THE DEMOCR ATIC PRIMARY FOR NEW YORK’S 13TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT ILLUSTR ATES THE LIMITATIONS OF SUCH UMBRELLA TERMS AS “LATINO” AND “HISPANIC” ... WHILE THESE PAN-ETHNIC TERMS HAVE THEIR POLITICAL USES, THEY CAN ALSO BE MISLEADING ... ways by its early hyper-segregation in the Washington Heights-Inwood section of northern Manhattan. This is a residential pattern distinct from that experienced historically by Puerto Ricans in New York City, who are more dispersed. This has resulted in Puerto Ricans organizing themselves through citywide organizations and not primarily through neighborhood-based institutions.

In the past two decades, it appears that the Dominican population has become much more dispersed from its original Washington Heights bases into the other boroughs, with, for example, now having a larger presence in the Bronx than in Manhattan. This would indicate that the political development of the Dominican community has not simply followed the Puerto Rican pattern and is probably closer to the African-American experience in the role that hyper-segregation has played in its political development.

This situation contributes to a widely held observation that the Dominican community exhibits a level of political insularism. On the positive side, this has resulted in the strong political cohesiveness that led to Espaillat’s primary victory this year. On the negative side, it has resulted in a level of political isolation that can limit the group’s influence on the broader political system.

The continual dispersal of the Dominican population will no doubt result in a more open political style for this community.

Reaching out to the Puerto Rican community. The Democratic primary for New York’s 13th Congressional District illustrates the limitations of such umbrella terms as “Latino” and “Hispanic” when characterizing this segment of the electorate. While these pan-ethnic terms

have their political uses, they can also be misleading if not properly contextualized.

This year, the Dominican-Puerto Rican political relationship in the 13th Congressional District was interesting both on the level of the electoral base and among the political leadership. While in East Harlem Espaillat had the endorsement of leaders like City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, he lost the support of the area’s electoral base. In the Bronx, although Wright had the endorsement of leaders like Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Bronx Democratic County Chairman Marcos Crespo, both Puerto Rican, Espaillat won the vote in the Bronx.

The relationship between Dominicans and Puerto Ricans in the district is a tenuous one that will require some attention by Espaillat. There is the challenge of reaching out to what most agree is a largely politically dysfunctional East Harlem, currently represented by Mark-Viverito. Espaillat will also have to deal with a Puerto Rican and black political leadership in the Bronx that did not support him, but which represent a population that is increasingly Dominican and that did support him. The forging of a truly pan-ethnic “Latino” politics in the district, therefore, remains a challenge at these different levels.

Tempering great expectations. The Espaillat victory has raised expectations in the Dominican community of the political and economic benefits it would accrue.

But the socioeconomic status of the city’s Dominican population calls for a tempering of expectations of what Espaillat could accomplish for this community, which has a poverty rate of 32 percent for individuals; for Dominican seniors the poverty rate

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rises to 35 percent and for Dominican female-headed households to 43 percent.

Despite all of the accolades that Rep. Charles Rangel has received for his years of service as the district’s congressman, his impact on the day-to-day realities of its residents has been relatively minor.

Beyond the symbolism of black leadership in Congress and his role as a national voice for urban and civil rights issues, Rangel’s ethical missteps diminished the power of his office, and the fact that the House of Representatives has recently been controlled by the Republican Party highlights the limitations of his role. This set of circumstances would face Espaillat if elected, unless the Democrats win control of the House in November.

Unless Espaillat becomes part of a national progressive movement to change the priorities of the federal government in ways that are more supportive of the country’s urban centers, and subsequently results in a humanitarian comprehensive immigration reform and addresses the growing problem of income inequality and related issues, very little can be expected to change in the district. In the absence of this, all the Dominican community can expect is a trickle of federal funding into the area and the current array of federal policy half-measures that maintain the status quo, including the continued anti-poor gentrification of its neighborhoods.

It is important that Espaillat does not fan the flames of unrealistic nationalist expectations that would fuel an already strong political cynicism that exists in the district. There is a need to project a realistic political strategy for community empowerment that is inclusive of all of the district’s communities, and builds on the political strengths that already exist in the Dominican experience.

This needs to be done in a way that places Dominican political development in a broader political context that can provide the level of social changes that will make a material difference in the lives of not just Dominicans, but all residents of the 13th Congressional District.

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Angelo Falcón is president of the National Institute for Latino Policy, for which he edits the online information service, the NiLP Report on Latino Policy & Politics. He can be reached at afalcon@latinopolicy.org.

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Notice of Formation of NMNY GROUP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/22/16.

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Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/06/16. Princ. office of LLC: 1350 Broadway, Ste. 2101, NY, NY 10018.

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SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: THE LLC, 9117 31st Ave. East Elmhurst, NY 11369: Purpose: Any lawful activity or purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of PEG GLOBAL PRIVATE EQUITY INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS VI LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/27/16.

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Notice of Formation of LDV NoMad, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/07/16. Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of PENINSULA (US) LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/06/16. Office location: NY County.

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DE address of LLC: 1313 N. Market Street, Ste. 5100, Wilmington, DE 19801. Certificate of LLC filed with Secretary of State of DE located at: 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of SBJCT LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/30/2016.

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SSNY designated agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to principal business address: 435 W 23rd St. Ste. 1BB, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of Formation of SITELIFT LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on July 08, 2016. Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LLC: 333 Pearl St., NY, NY 10038.

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Notice of Qualification of Pearl Gamma Funding, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/22/16. Office location: NY County.

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LOSERS ANDREW CUOMO - While his week didn’t start out so hot, things were just peachy once he arrived in Philly for the DNC. Away from the audits and investigations, the state’s top Democrat grabbed the spotlight, following in his father’s footsteps with a speech on the closing night of the convention. And all the while, he’s been rubbing his intra-party foe Mayor Bill de Blasio’s nose in his inability to grab the same kind of attention.

THE BEST OF THE REST MICHAEL BLOOMBERG - made a splash with prime-time DNC slot ADRIANO ESPAILLAT - frames likely congressional victory as immigrant success story JAMES O’NEILL - looks like top name to replace Bill Bratton ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN - ExxonMobil subpoena refusal boosts profile with progressives

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The Republican National Convention, which came to an end over a week ago, seems to have given Donald Trump a nice bump in the polls. Will last week’s Democratic National Convention give Hillary Clinton a similar bounce? We don’t know yet as we go to print, but the DNC proceedings in Philly already had some New Yorkers on the rise and others dropping behind. Check out the latest Winners & Losers to see who was on the move.

BILL DE BLASIO – If a tree falls at 5:15 p.m. in a halfempty arena, does it make a sound? The mayor didn’t even get a chance to address his fellow New Yorkers at the DNC, leaving their breakfast gathering where Cuomo held court. Back in New York, his own agencies don’t trust each other, Preet’s probing again, he’s losing his police commissioner, and – worst of all – his city’s food was voted worse than Philadelphia’s.

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