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Stringer launches commission to reduce red tape for small NYC businesses

Bed-Stuy BID’s Lambert is co-chair

January 30, 2015 By Mary Frost Brooklyn Daily Eagle
NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Comptroller
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New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer has launched a Red Tape Commission made up of small businesses owners and regulatory experts, he told the Association for a Better New York (ABNY) in an address on Monday.

The commission, designed to minimize bureaucratic red tape, will be co-chaired by Michael Lambert, executive director of the Bed-Stuy Gateway BID, and Jessica Lappin, president of the Downtown Alliance.

Lambert is responsible for planning, project management and economic development for the Fulton–Nostrand commercial corridor, which is home to 373 businesses, a large number of which are small and locally-owned. He is also co-chair of the New York City BID Association.

“Together, we’ll break down roadblocks and help New Yorkers,” Stringer said. “Whether it’s a bodega owner frustrated over permits she needs, a homeowner trying to rebuild after Sandy, or the head of a new start-up who can’t afford an expediter.”

The comptroller said that government must be a partner, not an obstacle, in helping people achieve “their version of the American dream.”

In his address to ABNY, Stringer listed his accomplishments during his first year in office.

These include audits that uncovered waste in the New York City Housing Authority, new controls on technology vendors dealing with the city, efforts to bring more transparency to major corporations, his ClaimStat program to reduce claims against the NYPD and limit the city’s liability, and his ethics reform plan for the operations of the Bureau of Asset Management.

Stringer also detailed how his report finding 28 percent of city schools had no full-time arts instructors led officials to secure $23 million in new funding for arts teachers.

His full speech to ABNY can be found at http://comptroller.nyc.gov/

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