Coney Island councilmember named new co-chair of Brooklyn delegation
Coney Island/Bensonhurst Councilmember Mark Treyger is the new co-chair of the City Council’s Brooklyn delegation, chosen to replace Councilmember Carlos Menchaca during a closed-door meeting on Thursday, February 5.
“This is really less about an individual person and more about the state of the delegation,” said Treyger. “The delegation makes sure that the needs of the borough are being heard and being addressed and so I take this role very seriously, and I take my job in the City Council very seriously.”
In the past, Treyger – a former history teacher at New Utrecht High School elected to the council in November of 2013 – has served as a delegate for the United Federation of Teachers and now holds significantly more power in terms of the city’s budgetary negotiations.