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stuartjavrick
Political Party: Candidate Submitted Biography: Born July 15,1934 in Brooklyn, NY lived in Bronx,Queens and resdide in Manhattan. Graduate Forest Hills High School, New York Uhiversity School of business. BS in Banking and Finance. Owned or Partnered in own business since 1955 Comptroller Survey: stuartjavrickQuestion 1: As Comptroller, how would you help to improve mobility in New York City?by making sure the agencies responsible for that are using taxpayers dollars properly Question 2: The Partnership for New York City estimates that traffic congestion is to blame for $13 billion a year in losses to the New York Metropolitan Region’s economy. What relationship do you see between the regional economy and traffic congestion? Which, if any, policies do you support to mitigate traffic congestion in New York City?Question 3: The current comptroller has done several reports documenting inequities in City and State MTA funding, resulting in the agency being shortchanged hundreds of millions of dollars. Would you continue to do periodic reports on MTA finances? Would you take any actions to address these inequities?Question 4: Currently, New York City provides many free, on-street parking permits to its employees. As Comptroller, would you document the costs of this strategy (direct or indirect) and/or investigate various incentive programs that would encourage more City employees to take transit, bike or walk to work?Question 5: The MTA's $6 billion preliminary budget for 2010 will be issued in late July and approved in December. Have you reviewed this budget and, if so, do you see additional ways for the MTA to save money or any inappropriate cutbacks? I have not reviewed the budjet. The MTA is a State agencyI am runningfor NY City Comptroller. Any ways that come to my attention to save money would be passed on the appropriate Agency
Submitted by stuartjavrick on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 11:52.
Submitted by stuartjavrick on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 11:48.
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