"On Nov. 9, they erected the so-called Talking Transition Tent on Canal Street, and, for three weeks, invited all New Yorkers to visit and share their best ideas on 50 iPad terminals. Nearly 70,000 people showed up for that experiment in shared governance, including two leaders of de Blasio's transition team who toured the tent and indicated that they welcomed the input."
"For the next month and a half, Mamdani has a lot to do, especially for the staffing of his administration. He'll need to make appointments at three dozen city agencies and more than 200 commissions and boards. The work to figure out who to keep and who to replace, as well as how to implement his policy agenda, may have begun during the campaign-but the hard work starts now during the transition."
A past transition in 2013 used a public Talking Transition Tent to solicit ideas from New Yorkers and drew nearly 70,000 participants. The tent provided an informal, citywide poll clarifying resident priorities and offered transition-team leaders valuable input. The new mayor-elect faces urgent Day 1 preparation, including appointing leaders at roughly three dozen agencies and over 200 commissions and boards. Decisions about whom to keep, whom to replace, and how to implement the policy agenda require broad public-informed choices. Recreating a public engagement mechanism would supply practical guidance and democratic legitimacy during the compressed transition period.
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