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Mayor Adams launched into a rant against City Comptroller Brad Lander on Thursday that featured an impression of the fiscal watchdog as well as criticism of how he’s helped with the city’s migrant crisis.
The proposed changes, outlined in Gov. Hochul's executive budget earlier this week, would scrap a regional limit on charters issued in the city and revive so-called “zombie” charters schools that count toward a statewide charter cap but have ceased operations. That could pave the way for any additional 100 charter schools in the city.
As The News first reported in July, Lander’s office, which serves as the city’s fiscal watchdog, approved about $550 million in contracts with nonprofits that are members of an umbrella group that his wife, Meg Barnette, oversees.
The Door, a non-profit that offers reproductive health care and other services to adolescents, had contracts worth more than $3.8 million registered with Comptroller Brad Lander’s office since Jan. 27 when it admitted to submitting inaccurate records to the state Health Department raising questions about why Lander and Mayor Adams’ administration would approve of deals with an entity implicated in a “civil fraud action.”