Tuesday, June 30, 2026, 11 a.m. (New York City time), 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 1
Committee: Committee on Education
0:08 You guys? Yeah, yeah. Good
0:08 morning and welcome to today's
0:10 New York City Council vote for
0:12 the committee on education at
0:14 this time, please silence all
0:16 electronic devices and to no 1
0:19 approach any time sure to know
0:20 it's we are ready to begin
0:25 .good morning, everyone. I'm
0:27 Council Member Eric you a
0:29 proud public school alone
0:31 teacher and now chair of the
0:32 committee on education and
0:34 welcome to today's vote first.
0:35 I'd like to acknowledge my
0:37 colleagues that are here
0:39 ,council lewis sherman
0:51 rwong, um zong Joseph a. Lee
1:02 and delarosa to the committee
1:03 on education will consider two
1:04 pieces of legislation related
1:05 to child care and early
1:08 childhood education proposed
1:09 introduction. 15 A sponsored
1:11 by council members shawn
1:12 abroad would prohibit the
1:13 department of health and
1:14 mental hygiene from acquiring
1:16 a subsequent background check
1:17 of an individual for the
1:19 purposes of working in a
1:20 center based child care
1:23 program if had already
1:25 completed a background check
1:27 unless the individual has not
1:28 been employed by a child care
1:29 provider in the City for more
1:30 than a hundred 80 consecutive
1:32 days in the past five years. A
1:35 child care program requests a
1:36 background check or a
1:37 background check is otherwise
1:38 required by law or necessary
1:41 for the purposes of safety
1:43 this bill aimed to correct
1:47 inefficiencies in efficacy h's
1:48 in the background check
1:49 process and ease some of the
1:50 administrative burden on child
1:58 care providers. Yeah, the
1:59 committee will also be
2:01 considering proposed
2:01 introduction. 588 On a really
2:04 child education chair council
2:06 member council members. Jen
2:08 got as well as Council Member
2:11 Kevin Riley. This bill would
2:12 establish an office of child
2:12 care and early childhood
2:14 education to oversee the
2:15 planning and implementation of
2:16 child care for any child who
2:18 resides in the City at no cost
2:22 to a parent step parent
2:23 guardian or relative of such
2:26 child, the bill would require
2:27 the office to coordinate the
2:28 provision of child care in the
2:30 City, including among other
2:32 mandates developing
2:34 recommendations for
2:35 implementation, considering
2:36 costs and potential sources of
2:37 funding for the expansion of
2:40 child care and supporting
2:40 agencies in identifying
2:42 potential locations for
2:44 additional childcare programs.
2:45 I would like to turn it over
2:47 to the bill's sponsor,
2:48 councilmember Gutiérrez for
2:52 her remarks.
2:52 Thank you, chair, I I wil
2:53 lbe so brief. I just want t
2:55 otake this time to thank the
2:56 entire staff that helped put
2:57 this together. All of my
2:58 colleagues at very early on,
3:00 signed on re signed on and
3:02 then re signed on again at the
3:04 third reintroduction, and I
3:05 just want to dedicate this to
3:07 all the advocates all the
3:08 providers all the majority
3:10 women and women of color that
3:11 have been saying that they
3:13 have not felt seen or
3:15 supported as child car
3:15 eproviders as early child t
3:18 ohit hood education providers
3:19 .I'm really thankful to the
3:21 speaker and to this Mayor who
3:23 both, I think have never shied
3:26 away from their commitment t
3:27 othis and I'm really excited t
3:28 osee how our City transforms
3:30 when we have a legitimate
3:32 universal child care system,
3:33 ithink this is a space where
3:34 New York can lead and I'm very
3:36 excited about that future.
3:42 Thank you. Thank you
3:43 councilmember today what will
3:44 soon be voting on a budget
3:46 that significantly invests in
3:47 New York city's early
3:49 childhood education system and
3:50 as a committee we have the
3:53 opportunity to improve the
3:55 functionality of that system
3:56 and set up that investment for
3:58 a greater chance of success,
3:59 and I encourage my colleagues
4:01 to support both of these
4:02 pieces of legislation, and
4:05 finally, I'd like to thank the
4:06 committee staff alejandro
4:07 carver hall, chloe rivera,
4:10 katie, selena, grace amato and
4:13 angeline lawless as well as my
4:14 own staff, the assaulter and
4:19 jenna. Klaus, we're ready to
4:20 begin the vote. Thank you.
4:20 Good morning, will you?
4:21 Committee clark roll call vote
4:23 committee on education. Both
4:24 items are coupled. Inuits.
4:27 Hi
4:28 , lewis eye on all
4:30 congratulations to all the
4:31 bill sponsors. Brewer? Yes,
4:36 De La Rosa high.
4:39 Farías. I would iike
4:43 congratulations, councilman.
4:45 Gutiérrez Gutiérrez.
4:45 Thank you so much. I Joseph
4:53 I. Krishnan I li.
4:57 I niceties. Congratulations.
5:02 I.
5:02 Showman I huang I Won eye on
5:10 both. Thank you with a vote of
5:12 13 in the affirmative, zer
5:13 owith a negative, no
5:15 abstentions. Both items have
5:15 been adopted by the committee
5:17 chair that is a full committee
5:20 . Thank you. The committee