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Under the amendments effective in 1901, to the charter of the then-recently-amalgamated City of Greater New York, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment was composed of eight ex officio members: the Mayor of New York City, the New York City Comptroller and the President of the New York City Board of Aldermen, each of whom had three votes; the ...
Under the charter of the City of Greater New York established in 1898, the Board of Estimate was responsible for budget and land-use decisions for the city. It was composed of eight ex officio members: the Mayor of New York City, the New York City Comptroller and the President of the New York City Council, each of whom was elected citywide and had two votes, and the five Borough presidents ...
A board of estimate is a governing body, particularly in the United States.. Typically, the board's membership will consist of a combination of elected officials from the executive branch (e.g., the mayor or county executive) and the legislative branch (called the city council or, in some localities, the board of supervisors), and its powers are usually concentrated in such areas as taxation ...
In 1989, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the Boards' use in the United States in Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris. [1] The London City Council in London, Ontario was one of the last remaining municipalities in North America to retain a Board of Control. It was abolished with the 2010 municipal elections.
Morris (489 U.S. 688) unanimously declared the New York City Board of Estimate, which had no parallel anywhere else in the United States, unconstitutional. The ruling was made on the grounds that Brooklyn , the city's most populous borough, with a population of 2.2 million at the time, had the same representation on the board as Staten Island ...
By 1788, the Treasurer of the City prepared the budget, and in 1830 this duty fell to the Comptroller. [3] In 1853, a Board of Commissioners was established comprising the Mayor, the Comptroller and the Presidents of the Board of Alderman and the Board of Assistants, to pass on the appropriations of the Alms House Department and the Board of Education before such appropriations should be ...
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In the New York City government, each of the five boroughs has a borough board composed of the borough president, City Council members from the borough, and the chairperson of each community board in the borough. [1]