Wednesday, January 22, 2014

New small biz boss will ease fines

 New York, New York: January 21,2014, inside City Hall, Mayor Bill De Blassio holds a press conference discussing the blizzard, with John Doherty, Sanitation Commissioner; and announcing two senior appointments, one, of Dr. Ramanathan Raju, as President of the Health and Hospitals Corporation, two, of Maria Toress-Spriger, as head of Small Business Servies. Photo Credit: JB NICHOLAS for the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Bill de Blasio

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Mayor de Blasio announces the appointments of Maria Torres-Spring as head of city Small Business Services and Dr. Ramanathan Raju as head of Health and Hospitals Corp.




The city’s new small-businesses boss will work to ease “punitive” fines that have crippled borough firms, Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday.


De Blasio named Maria Torres-Springer, formerly a top official at the Economic Development Corp., to head the Department of Small Business Services and also tapped Dr. Ramanathan Raju to run the Health and Hospitals Corp.


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He made a point of condemning former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s policies, which many shops complained included high fines for tiny infractions.


“Our small businesses were struggling to begin with. They did not need overly aggressive enforcement and overly punitive fines,” the mayor said.


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Raju, who began his career at Lutheran Hospital in Brooklyn, has been running Chicago’s hospital system.





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