According to Gotham Gazette, the City Council’s Governmental Operations Committee will schedule a hearing May 2 on a package of bills based on recommendations made by the CFB in our report on the 2013 elections, published in September 2014. As we’ve noted here before, the bills will help simplify the Program for candidates, and reinforce its protections against pay-to-play money in City elections. We will devote more of this space to these bills in the coming weeks, but we are pleased to see the Council taking action to strengthen and improve the city’s campaign finance system in advance of the 2017 elections.