Council finalizes committee assignments, updates rules on notice and agenda posting and asks finance committee to review spending threshold

The Brooklyn City Council used its Jan. 13 meeting to report results from its Jan. 6 organizational session, confirming committee and board assignments for 2025, adopting minor procedural updates to council rules and directing the finance committee to work with the mayor and finance director on a proposed local ordinance to set an administrative spending threshold and review the city’s Board of Control.

During the report — given at the opening of the Jan. 13 meeting — the council president (speaker not identified by name in the meeting transcript) outlined committee assignments: Councilwoman Sue Grodick will serve on the Planning Commission and as chair of Public Safety and Environmental (with Councilman Borowski and Councilman Coyle); Councilman Kevin Tanski will serve on the Sustainability Advisory Committee and as Recreation Board liaison; Councilman Andy Sellhertz…