Yonkers Insider Newspaper Article on Yonkers City Councilwomen Shanae Williams, 1st District.

Yonkers City Councilwomen Shanae Williams has been a fighter on issues like Schools, Clean Neighborhoods, Housing, Homeless, Safety and Jobs.






Williams has been a proactive City Councilmember and cares about our City, She is a tremendous voice for our City on the Yonkers City Council.






We believe that we need more elected officials like Yonkers City Councilwomen Shanae Williams, She is truly a treasure for our City on the Yonkers City Council, we need to reelect one of the hardest working and caring elected officials that we have in Yonkers. We need to reelect Councilwomen Williams in this year's elections. We know one thing that Councilwomen Willams is no one's puppet and her only boss is the voters of the First City Council District. She is a very hardworking and caring Elected Official, we need more Elected Officials like Yonkers City Councilwomen Shanae Williams.






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Shanae on the issues:

SCHOOLS


Councilwoman Shanae is a lifelong democrat who is a product of the Yonkers Public Schools. She is fighting for funding to rebuild and renovate our crumbling school buildings. She is fighting to increase funding for our students in the public schools so they could have more sports and after school activities, more guidance counselors and psychologists, more administrators throughout the board of education.



CLEAN NEIGHBORHOOD


Councilwoman Shanae stands for cleaner streets and healthy parks. She has put funding in the budget towards renovating our parks so our kids can have a safe and clean space to play. She also sponsored legislation to address all the vacant lots that are filled with trash so we can hold those responsible, accountable. She sponsored legislation which require landlords that allow dogs in their buildings to provide dog waste disposals to encourage residents to clean up after their dogs.



HOUSING


Councilwoman Shanae is the number one advocate for more affordable housing. She has taken the lead on strengthening the current affordable housing ordinance. She is working on increasing the percentage of affordable housing units from 10% to 18%. As a former commissioner on the municipal housing authority of the city of Yonkers, she has supported and continues to support renovating ALL our public housing in Yonkers including Scholobaum & Cottage gardens.



HOMELESS


She started a homelessness taskforce to bring attention to the issues surround the homeless in Yonkers. She has introduced legislation calling on the County to provide day programs so that the homeless have a place to go and get the services they need including but not limited to mental health services, substance abuse services, help finding employment, and help finding affordable housing.  She also introduced legislation urging the County to provide sufficient funding for adequate housing for the homeless. 



SAFETY


Councilwoman Shanae Williams is working with the police department to keep our streets safe. She is working on mandating implicit bias training for all city departments starting with the Yonkers Police Department.



JOBS


Councilwoman Shanae has been working tirelessly to help connect people to job opportunities. From working with local women and minority owned businesses to the labor/trades unions, she has held job fairs, launched seasonal jobs opportunities and promote apprenticeship programs for her residents.



MEMBERSHIPS


Hudson River Community Association;
NAACP;
Aquehung;
Westchester Black Women’s Political Caucus;
National Council of Negro Women



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