[5] The 1963 revision of the New York City Charter extended the Borough of Manhattan's Community Planning Councils (est.
[8] The 2020 revision included 19 ballot proposals, combined into 5 questions, all of which were approved in the general election on November 5, 2019.
In the 2025 version, the section on succession, Section 10, includes sub-section D2 which describes an Inability committee with two provisions:(a) There shall be a committee on mayoral inability consisting of: the corporation counsel, the comptroller, the speaker of the council, a deputy mayor who shall be designated by the mayor, and the borough president with the longest consecutive service as borough president.
No such declaration shall be effective unless signed by all the members making it.On February 17, 2025, comptroller Brad Lander released a public letter to Mayor Eric Adams threatening to convene a meeting of the Inability Committee if Mayor Adams does not "develop and present a detailed contingency plan outlining how you intend to manage the City of New York.
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