Meet Preston Niblack
As reported last night, Christine Quinn just hired a new finance director for the City Council, Preston Niblack.
Niblack is coming over from his job as deputy director for the Independent Budget Office.
He starts on May 5 and is arriving here amid the financial scandal that has pre-occupied much of the Council. Talks are already underway on how to overhaul major portions of the discretionary allocations, a vital part of how members shape each year’s city budget.
Niblack is taking over the position once held by Mike Keogh, who left around the time Quinn said she learned that Council staffers for years had been hiding taxpayer money behind phony organizations in order to dispense the money later.
Niblack will be paid $160,000, the same salary Keogh was making when he started.
Here’s the official statement.
SPEAKER QUINN APPOINTS PRESTON NIBLACK AS FINANCE DIRECTOR
City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn today announced that she has appointed Preston Niblack as Director for the New York City Council. His start date at the Council will be May 5th.
Preston Niblack, a widely respected skilled finance expert, comes to the Council from the New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO), where he has served as Deputy Director for the past eight years. In this position, Mr. Niblack lead an effort to restate city agency budgets in programmatic terms, resulting in the presentation of agency budgets in terms more consistent with agency service delivery. He has also worked at the Washington D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue and the Congressional Budget Office.
“I am very proud to be joining Speaker Quinn and the City Council. I am wholly dedicated to improving the budget process and making New York City the standard for sound and responsible government finances,” said Niblack.
Preston currently lives in Manhattan.
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Speaker Christine Quinn empowered her assistants, like Laura Popa, to hurt many good people. If you do not like Speaker Quinn, please click the link below to watch her press conference concerning the City Council indictments. It appears that one of Quinn's assistants tried to brush aside Quinn's involvement, by instructing Quinn to discuss minor legislation first, but when the reporters ask her about her corruption, she folds like a cheap camera. So, again, if you DO NOT like Speaker Quinn, please watch the below YOUTUBE video link to watch Speaker Quinn suffer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2eIuZ-kQW8
You can hire the Dalai Lama to become the Councils Finance Director and that still will not fix the public relations mess that this incompentant Speaker of the City Council has caused. She has lost the confidence of her members and of all New Yorkers. She should be a little bit more genuine and simply take responsibilty and step down--- don't have press conferences simply to save your own career.
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