Counsel to the Mayor, Patrick F.X. Mulhearn subject files for 1980 to 1988

Accession ACC-1988-087. Unprocessed - RG 001/RG 001.EIK. Office of the Mayor, Edward I. Koch

Description

The Counsel to the Mayor advises the Mayor on legal matters involving City Hall and the executive staff, and provides counsel to the Mayor on the legal aspects of policy and administrative matters. The Counsel is also charged with overseeing special projects for the Mayor. During the Koch Administration, Robert B. Tierney served as Counsel to the Mayor from 1978 to 1983. In 1983, when Tierney became the Legislative Representative and Special Counsel in the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Relations, Patrick F.X. Mulhearn became the Counsel to the Mayor, a position he held for six years. The accession consists of correspondence, memoranda, press releases, reports, news clippings, copies of remarks by the Mayor, and texts of public hearings. There is also material related to declarations of emergencies. These consist of forms, requests for bids, and other papers related to declarations by Housing Preservation and Development's Emergency Services Bureau that an emergency situation exists and needs to be corrected. The subject files cover topics such as Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); business development; criminal Justice; jazz clubs; Commission on the Status of Women; and Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Container and folder list attached. Arranged alphabetically.

Extent

8.00 cubic feet

Dates

1980-1988

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