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2014
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

(14 members -- Assembly Rule IV, §1a)
Stipends -- Chair: $12,500; Ranking Member: $9,000 [ended Jan 1, 2019]

ANNUAL REPORTS  2014   2015 

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2014
CHAIR:  Assemblyman Steve Englebright
RANKING MEMBER: Assemblywoman Janet Duprey

Members: Michael Benedetto, David Buchwald, ESQ., Sandra Galef, Deborah Glick, Ron Kim,
Margaret Markey, Crystal Peoples-Stokes, Michelle Schimel; Mark Johns, Andrew Goodell, ESQ.,
Kieran Michael Lalor, ESQ.

[see: 2012 - 2015 LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS]


CJA's January 8, 2014 e-mail to Ranking Member Janet Duprey --
"Thank you -- RE: 'Following the Money': The Proposed Judiciary & Legislative Budgets for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

CJA's January 14, 2014 letter to Chair Englebright & Ranking Member Duprey --
"
Vindicating the Public’s Rights under Article VII, §1 of the NYS Constitution & Legislative Law §32-a:
      
(1) request to testify at the Legislature’s joint budget hearings in opposition to the proposed Judiciary & Legislative budgets;
      (2) request for information/records as to the process, if any, by which the Legislature’s proposed budget was compiled."      -- CJA's January 14, 2014 transmittal to recipients  

CJA's February 25, 2014 e-mail to Chair Englebright & Ranking Member Duprey --
"REQUEST FOR MEETING: Budget Bill #S.6351/A.8551: Judiciary & Legislative Budgets -- & appropriations for Commission to Investigate Public Corruption"  

CJA's March 4, 2014 letter to Chair Englebright & Ranking Member Duprey -- "Your Constitutional Duty:
       "(1) to address the evidence of fraud and unconstitutionality in the proposed Judiciary and Legislative budgets – and in the materially-divergent Governor’s Budget Bill #S.6351/A.8551, which, in violation of Senate and Assembly Rules, is unsupported by a fiscal note and introducer’s memorandum;
        (2) to address the $270,000 and other appropriations, embedded in the Executive Budget, for a demonstrably corrupt Commission to Investigate Public Corruption"

2016
CHAIR: Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes
RANKING MEMBER: Assemblyman Janet Duprey
Members: Michael Benedetto, Rodneyse Bichotte, Michael Blake, David Buchwald, ESQ.,
Erik Dilan, Sandra Galef, Deborah Glick, Ron Kim, Michelle Schimel, Mark Johns,
Andrew Goodell, ESQ., Kieran Michael Lalor, ESQ.


[see: 2016 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]

CJA's January 15, 2016 e-mail to Chair Peoples-Stokes, Ranking Member Duprey, Assemblymen Goodell & Johns -- "Immediate Oversight Required: Jan. 20, 2016 Senate Judiciary Confirmation Hearing of Chief Judge DiFiore AND 'Force of Law' Judicial Salary Recommendations of Dec. 24, 2015 Report of Commission on Legislative, Judicial & Executive Compensation" -- CJA's January 15, 2016 letter to Senate Majority Leader Flanagan & Assembly Speaker Heastie -- "IMMEDIATE OVERSIGHT REQUIRED: (1) The Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation and its statute-repudiating, fraudulent, and unconstitutional December 24, 2015 Report with “force of law” judicial salary recommendations;(2) The Senate Judiciary Committee’s January 20, 2016 public hearing to confirm the nomination of Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore as New York’s Chief Judge – and the deceptive public notice concealing that oral testimony is restricted to the nominee and bar associations"

CJA's February 3, 2016 e-mail to Chair Peoples-Stokes & Ranking Member Duprey -- transmitting  "QUESTIONS FOR TEMPORARY SENATE PRESIDENT FLANAGAN & ASSEMBLY SPEAKER HEASTIE"

CJA's February 19, 2016 letter to Chair Peoples-Stokes & Ranking Member Duprey --
"Preventing Yet Another “Grand Larceny of the Public Fisc”


CJA's March 25, 2016 e-mail to Chair Peoples-Stokes, Ranking Member Duprey --

"Restoring constitutionality and lawfulness to NY's budgeting process -- & overriding the 'force of law' judicial pay raises"-- link to:  CJA's March 23, 2016 verified 2nd supplemental complaint (1st citizen-taxpayer action) 

2017
CHAIR:  Crystal Peoples Stokes
RANKING MEMBER: Mark Johns
Members: Michael Benedetto, Rodneyse Bichotte, Michael Blake, David Buchwald, ESQ.,
Sandra Galef, Deborah Glick, Alicia Hyndman, Ron Kim, Christine Pellegrino, Andrew Goodell, ESQ.,
Kieran Michael Lalor, ESQ., Kevin Byrne

[see: 2017 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]


CJA's January 20, 2017 e-mail to Chair Peoples-Stokes & Ranking Member Johns

CJA's February 6, 2017 e-mail to Chair Peoples-Stokes & Ranking Member Johns --
"Letter to Leadership: (1) Legislative Law Article 5-A Commissions on Gov't Administration & State-Local Relations; (2) requested meetings to prevent repeat of constitutional, statutory & legislative rule violations re: fiscal year 2017-18 budget" --
CJA's February 6, 2017 letter to Temporary Senate President Flanagan, Senate Minority Leader Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Heastie, Assembly Minority Leader Kolb  --
"
(1) Where are your appointments to the Commission on Government Administration and to the Commission on State-Local Relations, required by Legislative Law Article 5-A?; (2) When will you be responding to my requests for a meeting for purposes of preventing a repeat of the constitutional, statutory, and legislative rule violations chronicled by the September 2, 2016 verified complaint in CJA’s citizen-taxpayer action?"        

VIDEO
CJA's testimony at the Legislature's Jan. 30, 2017 budget hearing
 on "local gov't officials/general gov't"

VIDEO
CJA's testimony at the Legislature's Jan. 31, 2017 budget hearing on "public protection"

CJA's February 8, 2017 e-mail to Chair Peoples-Stokes & Ranking Member Johns --
"Letter to Leadership: (1) Legislative Law Article 5-A Commissions on Gov't Administration & State-Local Relations; (2) requested meetings to prevent repeat of constitutional, statutory, & Legislative rule violations:  re: fiscal year 2017-18 budget" 

2018
CHAIR: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
RANKING MEMBER: Mark Johns
Member: Michael Benedetto, Rodneyse Bichotte, Michael Blake, David Buchwald, ESQ., Sandra Galef, Deborah Glick, Alica Hyndman, Ron Kim, Christine Pellegrino, Jaime Williams, Harvey Epstein, ESQ., Andrew Goodell, ESQ., Kiervan Michael Lalor, ESQ., Kevin Byrne

[see: 2018 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]

 

2019
CHAIR:  Michele Titus, Esq.
RANKING MEMBER: Mark Johns

Members
: Rodneyse Bichotte, Michael Blake, David Buchwald, ESQ., Kevin Byrne,
Harvey Epstein, ESQ.,Sandy Galef, Deborah Glick, Andy Goodell, ESQ., Alicia Hyndman,
Ron Kim, Kieran Michael Lalor, ESQ., Jaime Williams

[see: 2019 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]

click here for the Committee in 2019 Legislative Session

2020
CHAIR:  Kenneth Zebrowski, ESQ.
RANKING MEMBER: Mark Johns
Members: Rodneyse Bichotte, Michael Blake, David Buchwald, ESQ., Kevin Byrne,
Harvey Epstein, ESQ.,Sandy Galef, Deborah Glick, Andy Goodell, ESQ., Alicia Hyndman,
Ron Kim, Kieran Michael Lalor, ESQ., Jaime Williams

[see: 2020 LEGISLATIVE SESSION]


CJA's February 5, 2020 e-mail to Chair Zebrowski  (Legislative Director/Chief of Staff Bresnan) --
"Was NEW Assembly Committee on Governmental Operations Chair Zebrowski informed of the serious issues that were before the Committee in the 2019 legislative session pertaining to the Legislature's OWN budget & operations?"

CJA's February 19, 2020 e-mail to Chair Zebrowski & Ranking Member Johns --
"Request for Committee review & determination of Feb. 18, 2030 letter to Governor -- & Questions for Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Heatie & for Chief Administrative Judge Marks"

 

2021
CHAIR:  Kenneth Zebrowski, ESQ.
RANKING MEMBER: 

 

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PAY RAISE BILLS REFERRED TO COMMITTEE --

2017: Assembly Bill #5933  
(Weprin)



 

 

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