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You get three minutes to help rewire NYC government at Mamdani’s charter commission, and the next two hearings are this week

New Yorkers can testify on proposed NYC City Charter revisions through June 23, with Queens and Staten Island hearings remaining before a November 2026 vote.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani stands at a podium bearing the official New York City seal, flanked by United States and New York City flags, addressing an audience at a city event.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who convened the Commission on Government Efficiency now holding public hearings on rewriting the city charter, at a City Hall event. NYC Mayor’s Office / CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

You get three minutes to help rewire NYC government at Mamdani’s charter commission, and the next two hearings are this week

New Yorkers can testify on proposed NYC City Charter revisions through June 23, with Queens and Staten Island hearings remaining before a November 2026 vote.

You get three minutes to help rewire NYC government at Mamdani’s charter commission, and the next two hearings are this week
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You have three minutes to tell New York City how to fix itself, and the next two chances are this week. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Commission on Government Efficiency, the COGE, is holding its next two in-person hearings: Queens on Monday, June 22, and Staten Island on Tuesday, June 23, both 5 to 8 p.m. A second round of borough hearings runs into July, but these two are the next ones on the calendar. Whatever this panel recommends could land on your ballot on November 3, where every voter in the city will say yes or no to a rewrite of the document that decides who in city government actually has power.

COGE is one letter off from DOGE, Elon Musk’s federal Department of Government Efficiency, and that is not an accident. When a reporter asked Mamdani what he admired about DOGE…

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