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CITY COUNCIL | 9TH COUNCIL DISTRICT
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BILL
PERKINS |
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Working Families
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Party Enrolled
In: Democratic
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Occupation:
Full-time Council Member
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Occupational Background:
Community Specialist, NYC Department of Corrections;
Youth Service Specialist, NYC Youth Services Agency;
Deputy Chief Clerk, NYC Board of Elections; Staff
Analyst, NYC Department of Housing Preservation
and Development.
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Educational Background:
PS 102, Wagner HS, Collegiate School for Boys-Diploma;
Brown University-BA Degree; Institute for Mediation
and Conflict Resolution-Certified Mediator.
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Organizational
Affiliations: Founder and President, Schomburg
Plaza Residents’ Council; Co-Founder, Schomburg
Plaza Senior Center; Founder, Committee to Save
Wadleigh Junior High School; Sojourner Truth Democratic
Club; NAACP Executive Board, New York Branch.
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Prior Public Experience:
Member, Community Board 11, 10 yrs.; Founding Chair,
Caucus of Manhattan Black District Leaders; Parliamentarian,
NYS Council of Black Elected Democrats; Democratic
Judicial Convention Delegate; Chair, Community Advisory
Board of Lincoln Correctional Facility; Democratic
State Committee Member; Democratic District Leader;
Delegate, Democratic National Convention (2000).
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I believe public servants
should be effective, just and creative.
In this regard I offer my record as an activist
and member of the City Council:
- I have continued my activism as an effective
voice on affordable housing and related issues.
- Fought to prevent displacement and fraud
by exposing the “HUD Mortgage Scandal (203K
loan).” 19 individuals indicted.
- Changed HPD’s 3rd Party Transfer Program
into homeownership opportunities for tenants.
Guaranteed affordable rents for all tenants
with subsidies where necessary.
- Funded computer and technology centers in
our public schools and libraries.
- Restored over $17 million in the budget towards
college prep courses for high school students,
scholarships, and full-time faculty for CUNY.
- Supported small businesses and new economic
development opportunities.
- As a budget negotiator secured funding for
art and cultural institutions.
- Expanded funding for Senior and Youth programs
including PROMISE, a new senior prescription
payment plan initiative.
I have been effective in raising public consciousness
around HIV/AIDS, rodent and pest management, infant
mortality and other important human and civil rights
issues.
New York City is widely acclaimed as the greatest
city in the world. Let us make it that way for everyone.
(Statement reprinted as supplied by the candidate.)
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