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Speaker Adams reflects on four years, highlights housing and equity initiatives in closing remarks
Summary
Speaker Adrienne Adams used the final stated meeting to highlight the council’s record on affordability, CUNY Reconnect, trauma recovery centers and other equity initiatives, thank staff and members, and formally adjourn the meeting.
Speaker Adrienne Adams opened the stated meeting with a reflection on the council’s four-year term, noting historic firsts — the most diverse and first women-majority council — and citing programmatic achievements, including CUNY Reconnect enrollment and substantial investments in affordable housing and tenant protections.
Adams thanked staff across the council and city agencies, named senior staff by role, and memorialized New Yorkers lost to recent fatal fires while advising safety practices during winter months. She highlighted initiatives such as trauma recovery centers, a city-funded guaranteed income program for new mothers, and more than $8 billion in housing investments argued to center communities harmed by inequity.
In closing remarks at the end of the session, Adams reiterated the council’s wins in budget negotiations and legislation and formally adjourned the stated meeting of Dec. 18, 2025.
