QUESTION
Is the mayor's chief of staff permitted to engage and appear before every mayoral agency in New York City the day after leaving city service?
0:49:17
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Council Member Restler confirms that the mayor's chief of staff is permitted to engage with and appear before every mayoral agency in New York City the very next day after leaving city service.
- The chief of staff cannot communicate with personnel in the mayor's office for a period of time after leaving service.
- However, they can engage with and appear before every other mayoral agency head in New York City 24 hours later.
- The chief of staff is exempt from a one-year communication ban.
- They are still subject to a lifetime particular matter ban, prohibiting communication on any matter they worked on during their city tenure.
Lincoln Restler
0:49:17
Just to confirm, the mayor chief of staff is is not permitted to speak to people who work in the mayor's office about 1% of city government, but is permitted to to engage and appear before the very next day, every mayorial agency in the city of New York.
Ethan Carrier
0:49:29
Yeah.
0:49:30
Though that 1% is a little misleading of a number.
0:49:32
Right?
0:49:33
Because it's in mayor's office.
0:49:34
It's a
Lincoln Restler
0:49:34
Oh, it's 1% of the city workforce.
0:49:36
It's maybe 3000 or so employees out of well over 330,000, and he can appear before every agency head in the city of New York
Ethan Carrier
0:49:45
Yeah.
Lincoln Restler
0:49:45
And lobby them the very next day.
0:49:48
24 hours later.
Ethan Carrier
0:49:49
Correct.
0:49:50
And after yes.
0:49:51
So he is not subject to a 1 year communication.
0:49:54
Right.
0:49:54
But but hold on.
0:49:56
That's not the post employment restriction he's subject to.
0:49:59
He's also subject to the lifetime particular matter band, which means which would prohibit him from communicating with any city agents whether compensated or not about any particular matter on which you worked when you were with
Paul Ryan
0:50:12
the neighbors.
Lincoln Restler
0:50:12
I do wanna come back to that.