Charter Revision Commission subject files of Robert P. Castellanete for 1969, 1986-1998, 1999
Description
Robert Castellanete served in the Office of the Bronx Borough President from the James J. Lyons Administration in 1957 to the Ruben Diaz, Jr. Administration. Positions Castellanete held include Executive Assistant to the Borough President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. In 2010, he was honored for over fifty years of service in the Borough President's Office. The accession consists of correspondence, memoranda, statistics and other research and data, reports, and press clippings. Small amounts of material from the administrations prior to Fernando Ferrer's are represented. In response to the first Federal Court ruling by the United States District Court in 1986 that the Board of Estimate was partially unconstitutional, Mayor Edward I. Koch formed a Charter Revision Commission to propose appropriate changes to the Charter. The further Supreme Court ruling of the Board of Estimate's unconstitutionality, particularly regarding voting structure, lead the New York City Charter Commission to recommend many of its responsibilities be redistributed to the newly expanded New York City Council. The majority of the records in this accession concern this particular period of Charter change, during the earlier part of Fernando Ferrer's administration. The records reflect issues of concern to the Bronx Borough President's Office including borough governance and other issues monitored from the activities of the Ravitch Commission (Ravitch was also the chairman of the City Charter Revision Commission in 1986) and the Sovern (?) Commission. Arranged alphabetically.
Extent
2 cubic feet
Dates
1969, 1986-1999
Record Groups
Names
External Documents
Source
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.). Office of the President (Organization)
Creator
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.). Office of the President (Organization)
- Ferrer, Fernando, 1950- (Person)
- Castellanete, Robert P. (Person)
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