{"id":305268,"date":"2026-07-25T01:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305268\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T01:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:32:09","slug":"mamdanis-commission-advances-5-ballot-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305268\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani\u2019s commission advances 5 ballot questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s Commission on Government Efficiency, also known as COGE, held a meeting Thursday to finalize and advance five ballot proposals for the November election.<\/p>\n<p>The questions range from cutting down the approval process for outdoor dining to speeding up city contracting to fast-tracking bus and bike lanes to establishing a process for putting money into the city\u2019s rainy day fund.<\/p>\n<p>The commission, hand-picked by Mamdani, says its goal is to make city government faster and easier to navigate for New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>Ann Cheng, the executive director of COGE, joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on \u201cInside City Hall\u201d Friday to discuss more.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s Commission on Government Efficiency, also known as COGE, held a meeting Thursday to finalize and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[378,25,377,379,9,24,55,54,12,56,380,27,200],"class_list":["post-305268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-inside-city-hall","tag-app-top-stories","tag-inside-city-hall-segments","tag-inside-city-hall-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}