The president of the City Council, Adrienne Adams, has her eye in Gracie Mansion, but is already living as a “queen” in completely remodeled office spaces in several districts, they told The Post.
Since he was elected speaker in January 2022, the mayor’s democratic candidate has hundreds of thousands of dollars in renovations from top to bottom for his main excavations in the City Council, an offices suite through the street, and the heedicto.
From his first blow of Mazo, Adams made the historical and spacious office of the speakers in the City Council, repainting the discreet white and pale blue is the leg for decades to a great orange “Tucan”.
It also launched existing furniture, carpets and items for new desks, chairs, paintings and other accessories, according to sources familiar with renovations.
His interior designer ambitions continued at the end of last year, when he signed silently in intestinal renovations and new furniture for the suite of the Board speaker on 250 Broadway, without the knowledge of many of his fellow members of the Council or the city agency that negotiated a lease contract of $ 4.7 million a year in 2020 so that the complete council to occupy four carnices in the Tower of Offices said.
The 18 -floor 18 -floor floor suite includes four offices with impressive views, a conference room and a private bathroom.
“She lives as a queen with the need for Eraters. I describe her as the emperor without clothes,” said a New York Democratic Pol.
Broadway’s 250 renovations could have “easily cost six figures”, while tens of thousands of dollars “Werth of work were taken to the city’s office to the taste of the speaker, according to a source with letters in work details.
He also moved to the Height District Office space at the Rockdale Village shopping center in Jamaica, Queens, which probably had significant additional costs.
It is not clear what battery or taxpayers paid for decoration.
The City Council by law establishes its own expenses budget, which historically operates as a game of shells. Pots of Money are transferred from one order line to another by whim after the annual expense plan is adopted, and many of these reviews are rarely counted or updated in public records, according to council members and other city sources.
“The Council’s Budget is all fungible and can be connected,” said a source with an intimate knowledge of legislators. “
The general budget of the Board grew from $ 80.5 million in fiscal year 2022 to $ 100 million in the next 12 months of the first full year of ADAMS as a speaker.
Since then, the total has remained flat per line, but will grow to $ 115 million in the new fiscal year as of July, largely to account for the increases of the staff. The new budget also estimates that projected acquisitions are not related to “personal services” that increase from $ 1.6 million to $ 2.2 million and office rental costs that increase from $ 12 million to $ 13.5 million.
Thirteen of 15 members of the City Council and employees surveyed informally by the post insisted this week that he had no idea that Adams renewed his Broadway suite, largely because Adams barely uses the space or invites other members there. This included at least one medium -box doll and politically aligned operations with its leftist ideology.
The Administrative Services Department of the City of the City, which manages buildings owned by the city, confirmed that it had the internal staff to paint the office of the city of the speaker on request, but could not provide the cost immediately.
The agency said it did not collect any of the costs for the other updates of the Adams office.
DCAS also negotiated the lease of $ 4.7 million a year of the Municipal Council to rent space in 250 Broadway until 2040 of the Astrust Realty Corp.
The lease, a copy of which was reviewed by the publication, guarantees the owner to pay up to $ 11.5 million in renovations of “base construction work”, but not furniture, on the duration of the agreement.
This benefit was negotiated on the rental price financed by taxpayers, and operates in additional floors that were renewed that the city agreed to rent in the tower for a price that begins at almost $ 10 million annually and an escalation slightly.
Councilor Robert Holden, a moderate Democrat of Queens, said it was not a flavor to the renewals of the speaker until photos of the job were shown.
He called for the choice of wall color Adams in the “Gamish” City Council and said he never voted to adopt the expenses budgets of the council written under his surveillance if he “had the real breakdown of how money was being spent.”
“There must be transparency because this is crazy,” he said. “This money could be better used for taxpayers than updating their crimes to meet their needs.”
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Kalman Yeger (D-Brooklyn), who served in the City Council before being chosen for the state assembly in November, said Adams “wasted money” renewing the offices of the speakers because the old Shapy always left them in “Hardson left them.
When replacing the democrat limited to term Melissa Mark-Mark Viverito as a speaker in 2018, Johnson maintained the offices of the speakers when he left them with the exception of a wall in the Broadway suite to cover a Mark-Vivlerito mural near the CUP Nar Coming Arterity
A democratic policy aligned with Adams said that the speaker would prefer to spend the budget money of the council as it considers it convenient, instead of the unused dollars return to the general fund of the city and were used at the discretion of Speace Eric Onics – Adversary.
The speaker did not return the questions, including a request for breakdown or his expenses in office renovations.
