OSA General Membership Meeting Wednesday • May 26, 2004 • 6pm Our Special Guest Gifford Miller, Speaker New York City Council Location Department of Health Auditorium 125 Worth Street • 2nd Floor You must bring a picture ID. Take the #4, 5, & 6 trains to Brooklyn Bridge station and walk north or the #1/9 to Franklin Street and walk east to Lafayette Street. Gifford Miller entered the City Council in tax credits for more energy efficient buildings, January 1996, representing the 5th Council District among other bills. He is currently urging a fiscal covering the Upper East Side, Yorkville, Carnegie plan that would feature property tax cuts, earned Hill, Turtle Bay, Roosevelt Island, and Sutton Place. income tax credits for the working poor and senior He sits on the Council’s Rules, Privileges & homeowner property tax relief. Elections and Standards & Ethics Committees. He is Speaker Miller has announced that he is married with two children. considering a run for Mayor in 2005 and, according In January 2002, he won unanimous election to to the City Campaign Finance Board, has raised the post of Speaker of the City Council. As Speaker, more than $2.5 million toward such a race. he is among the most powerful office-holders in At OSA’s regular May general membership City government. He is responsible for the day-to- meeting, you’ll have the chance to meet Speaker day functions of the Council. Miller, learn his positions on issues of concern to Under his leadership the Council has enacted City workers and have the chance to pose a few living wage legislation, lead paint protections, questions to him as well. Be there. protections for the rights of domestic partners, and REMINDER: DUE TO STAFF ANALYST EXAM TRAINING, THE MEETING IS BEING HELD AT A DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN USUAL AND ON A DIFFERENT DAY OF THE WEEK. .