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CM Schulman questions OMB on community engagement unit (CAU) assignments

New York City Council · Jun 9, 2026 · starts 1:17:20 · 1 min 8 sec

Schulman raises that council districts no longer have assigned CAU liaisons. Solomon offers to take the concern back to Office of Mass Engagement leadership. Schulman also notes for the record her role in pushing for the Article 6 reversal.

Lynn C. Schulman

I just want to follow up a little bit on Speaker Menon's question about the mass engagement unit.

Lynn C. Schulman

Up until recently, every council district was assigned somebody from the community engagement unit, from CAU, and that doesn't really exist anymore.

Lynn C. Schulman

So what's being done to make sure that that...

Lynn C. Schulman

Continues to happen because without that it's very difficult to get things done unless unless some I mean some of us have relationships with certain people and IGA and everything else but we were assigned a particular CAU person

Sharif Solomon

I'm happy to take that back, Council Member, and talk to leadership for the Office of Mass Engagement about that.

Lynn C. Schulman

Okay, and just for the record, Article 6 was something that I...

Lynn C. Schulman

came in office and pushed for us, and we were able to do it.

Lynn C. Schulman

We worked with the state.

Lynn C. Schulman

We appreciate the support of the admin, but I just wanted for the record to state that.

UNKNOWN

Thank you for building the foundation for us.

Lynn C. Schulman

Thank you.

Lynn C. Schulman

Thank you, Chair.

Linda Lee

Thank you.

Linda Lee

Okay, we've been joined by Councilmember Aviles, and next, actually, sorry, Eric, we have Councilmember Caban on Zoom, followed by Dinowitz.