Kathryn Garcia
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Kathryn Garcia (born Kathryn Ann McIver, March 3, 1970) was the Commissioner of the New York City Sanitation Department from 2014 to 2020.[1]
Biography
Garcia was born in Brooklyn, New York.[2] She was the adopted daughter of Bruce and Ann McIver.[1] She attended P.S. 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan.[3][1] She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn.[4][5]
She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning a BA in Economics and History in 1992.[1]
Garcia was the chief operating officer of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection from 2012 to 2014, after four years as its Assistant Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner, and handled the city’s water supply, sewage system, and wastewater treatment plants.[2] She was given credit for increasing the speed of its response to complaints and street repair requests.[6]
She was the 43rd Commissioner of the New York City Sanitation Department, which is in the largest sanitation department in the world, from 2014 to 2020.[7][8][9][2] As of 2015, the Department had more than 9,700 employees, handled more than 3.2 m tons of refuse every year, and recycled more than 600,000 tons of waste material annually.[2] She was also the interim chair and CEO of the New York City Housing Authority for part of 2019, as part of an emergency effort to fix lead paint problems.[10][11] She resigned in September 2020 to consider running for Mayor of New York City, and criticized what she termed the "unconscionable" $100 million budget cuts of Mayor Bill DiBlasio in her resignation letter.[12][13][14][15][16]
Garcia launched a campaign for Mayor of New York City in December 2020, after filing in September 2020 to run in the Democratic primary.[4][9] Among her proposals are a city residency requirement for new New York Police Department officers to improve community relations, expanding the bus and bike lanes, and turning Rikers Island into a composting and renewable energy zone.[17][18]
Footnotes
- ^ a b c d John, Caroline (September 9, 2020). "NYC Sanitation Chief, Kathryn Garcia Steps Down, Considers Running for Mayor".
- ^ a b c d "Kathryn Garcia, Commissioner, New York City Sanitation; The world's largest cleaning department demands military precision". The Financial Times. September 9, 2015.
- ^ Robbins, Liz (January 9, 2015). "A Day of Calm for Kathryn Garcia". The New York Times.
- ^ a b "The major 2021 mayoral contenders". City & State NY. December 31, 2020.
- ^ "City & State New York 110220". Issuu. November 2, 2020.
- ^ Hicks, Nolan; Marsh, Julia (September 8, 2020). "NYC sanitation commissioner blasts de Blasio in resignation letter, eyes mayoral run". The New York Post.
- ^ Lestch, Corinne (March 15, 2014). "New Sanitation Department boss Kathryn Garcia: I 'love' garbage". The New York Daily News.
- ^ "NYC Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia resigns". WPIX. September 8, 2020.
- ^ a b Marsh, Julia; Hicks, Nolan (August 19, 2020). "Sanitation boss Kathryn Garcia considers NYC mayoral run as trash piles up". The New York Post.
- ^ Honan, Katie (October 17, 2018). "NYC Sanitation Commissioner to Tackle Lead Exposure". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Spivack, Caroline (January 4, 2021). "Here's Everyone Running for New York City Mayor (So Far)". Curbed.
- ^ Durkin, Erin; Gronewold, Anna; Bocanegra, Michelle (August 19, 2020). "Kathryn Garcia's trash trouble". POLITICO.
- ^ Matt Troutman (September 8, 2020). "NYC Sanitation Commissioner Resigns Ahead Of Likely Mayoral Run". www.msn.com.
- ^ Rubinstein, Dana (September 8, 2020). "Kathryn Garcia, N.Y.C.'s sanitation commissioner, resigns to mull a run for mayor". The New York Times.
- ^ Gartland, Michael (September 8, 2020). "NYC sanitation chief steps down as she mulls mayoral bid". The New York Daily News.
- ^ "NYC Sanitation Commissioner Resigns Ahead Of Likely Mayoral Run". New York City, NY Patch. September 8, 2020.
- ^ Erin Durkin, ANNA GRONEWOLD, JONATHAN CUSTODIO (December 10, 2020). "Kathryn Garcia launches mayoral run". POLITICO.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Campanile, Carl; Hicks, Nolan (December 11, 2020). "Former de Blasio aide Kathryn Garcia makes her case for NYC mayor". The New York Post.