"As new City Council Speaker Julie Menin names her leadership team and committee chair assignments on Thursday, two sources confirmed to amNewYork that she is set to appoint Council Member Shaun Abreu as the legislature's new chair of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Menin is expected to appoint Abreu a close ally and fellow Manhattan council member during the first stated meeting she will preside over on Jan. 15, according to two sources close to the speaker."
"Abreu will replace Council Member Selvena Brooks-Powers (D-Queens), who has chaired the committee over the past four years and made an unsuccessful bid for speaker in the race ultimately won by Menin. Brooks-Powers appeared to want to keep the role. She had penned a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul in December, calling on he state's top executive to devote more state funding to offset future planned subway and bus fare hikes. As of Thursday morning, it was unclear what Brooks-Powers' next committee assignment would be."
Julie Menin will appoint Council Member Shaun Abreu as chair of the Council's Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure at the Jan. 15 stated meeting. Abreu will replace Council Member Selvena Brooks-Powers, who chaired the committee for four years and ran unsuccessfully for council leadership. Brooks-Powers wrote to Gov. Kathy Hochul in December urging more state funding to offset planned subway and bus fare hikes. City Council announced that all who ran for leadership will receive committee chair assignments. The Transportation Committee oversees the Department of Transportation and other transit agencies. Abreu has endorsed Mayor Zohran Mamdani and could advance bus-speed improvements.
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