City Comptroller candidate Reshma Patel unveiled crypto-specific aspects to her platform today, including a call for allocating a portion of the city’s pension funds to crypto.
The City Comptroller’s office may be under extra pressure this year to aid the financial recovery of the COVID-19 pandemic. In an interview with The Block, Patel said she decided to run this January because she’s concerned about the long-term financial health of the city.
„I want to make sure that we’re steered in the right direction as we come out of the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic,” she said. „I start thinking about new ways we could do stuff, and one of those is we need more transparency and efficiency in our city government.”
The comptroller oversees how the city allocates its money, specifically by managing government contracts for projects and investing the city’s retirement funds. If Patel is elected, crypto and blockchain would have a role in the current recovery and future planning, w

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