On Tuesday, new York mayor bill de Blasio signed a bill creating a new city Agency — the Department of nightlife, which will supervise the activities of night clubs and cabarets.
Despite the availability of various public councils and the Department of small business, the mayor believes that for issues of quality of life Big Apple needs another level of bureaucracy to help clubs solve problems and stay afloat.
De Blasio noted that every fifth of entertainment closed for the last couple of decades in new York, and most often it was due to the fact that the owners of the clubs find it difficult to navigate the rules and restrictions.
The bill that de Blasio has signed at the club House of Yes will add two new employees to the staff of the municipality, which already exceeds a record 322 000 people.
The Department of the nightlife will be to manage their own annual budget in the amount of 407 000 dollars, including $ 370,000, which amount to a salary for the head of the Department, which de Blasio will present later, and his Deputy.
They will work with the Advisory Council for nightlife, consisting of 12 people, and to help clubs to obtain licenses and all permits to consider all sorts of complaints, and advise the mayor on issues affecting the industry.
Eight members of this Council will be appointed by the Chairman of the City Council and four for mayor. Each will hold office for 2 years.
A new Department created by analogy with a similar project in Amsterdam, which has helped reduce complaints about the quality of life and crime by almost 30 percent.
According to hall, more than 20 percent of small music venues in the city have closed in the last 15 years due to complaints about noise, surges in property prices and problems with licensing.
