2019 Elections: Candidate Profile: Democrat Yonkers City Councilwomen Shanae Williams, Running for Re-Election for Yonkers City Council in the 1st District.
Councilwomen Shanae Williams has done a great job in her time on the Yonkers City Council. She is a tireless worker who is one of the hardest working elected officials in Yonkers, due to her love for our City. She is someone to be admired in how hard she fights and advocates for our City of Yonkers on the Yonkers City Council. She is a champion for our City. She always stands up for Yonkers and always puts her constituents first and not Politics, that is refreshing to have an elected official like City Councilwomen Shanae Williams representing us on the Yonkers City Council in the 1st District.
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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
Once again, this is not an endorsement by our Newspaper. We just want to educate the voters on the Candidates running. We will do a Candidate Spotlight on all candidates running in the 2019 Elections, whether Primary or General Elections.
Councilwomen Shanae Williams is in a Democratic Party Primary for Yonkers City Council in the 1st District on June 25th with Democrats Terrence Miller and Bob Walters.
This Candidate Spotlight is not an endorsement of any Candidate. This is only to educate the voters on this Candidate.
Yonkers Insider Newspaper Blog
Councilwomen Shanae Williams has done a great job in her time on the Yonkers City Council. She is a tireless worker who is one of the hardest working elected officials in Yonkers, due to her love for our City. She is someone to be admired in how hard she fights and advocates for our City of Yonkers on the Yonkers City Council. She is a champion for our City. She always stands up for Yonkers and always puts her constituents first and not Politics, that is refreshing to have an elected official like City Councilwomen Shanae Williams representing us on the Yonkers City Council in the 1st District.
Yonkers Insider Newspaper Blog
Councilwomen Shanae Williams 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
Once again, this is not an endorsement by our Newspaper. We just want to educate the voters on the Candidates running. We will do a Candidate Spotlight on all candidates running in the 2019 Elections, whether Primary or General Elections.
Councilwomen Shanae Williams is in a Democratic Party Primary for Yonkers City Council in the 1st District on June 25th with Democrats Terrence Miller and Bob Walters.
This Candidate Spotlight is not an endorsement of any Candidate. This is only to educate the voters on this Candidate.
Yonkers Insider Newspaper Blog
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