The City Council unanimously passed a bill Nov. 10 that will confer department-level status on a short-staffed agency for veterans’ affairs. The Department of Veterans’ Services, which has the support of Mayor de Blasio, is expected to become the country’s largest stand-alone municipal-level agency, and will serve 225,000 former military members living in the city.
“I think this is going to lay the foundation for how we serve veterans, how we look at veterans’ issues, and how we help veterans in the future,” said the Council’s Veterans Committee Chair, Eric Ulrich, at a press conference before the vote, the day before Veterans’ Day.
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