Steven
Newman is currently Vice President for Finance/Chief Operating Officer of Public
Health Solutions, a $200+ million not-for-profit, public health organization.
Public Health Solutions delivers direct health services to low income women,
infants and young children as well as manages large public health programs (Ryan
White HIV, HIV Prevention, Family Planning) through contracts with hospitals and
community-based organizations. Through direct services and contracts, Public
Health Solutions helps over 200,000 people per year. Additionally, Public Health
Solutions handles administrative services (budgeting, grant administration,
contracting, purchasing, and recruitment) for the City’s bioterrorism
preparedness program.Previously, he was the First Deputy Comptroller of New York City where he oversaw audits, engineering, pension fund investments, financing of City debt, budget analysis, policy analysis, accounting, and management and accounting systems. Mr. Newman also represented the Comptroller on the City Audit Committee. Prior to that he had been Chief of Staff to the Comptroller where he was responsible for policy, intergovernmental, and community relations, was the Office’s lead staff member in the negotiation of the City’s budget, and the initiator of new functions in the office, i.e. performance audit, pension policy, etc.
In-between stints in the Comptroller’s Office, Mr. Newman was the Chief Management and Financial Officer for the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA), at that time the country’s largest resettlement agency. NYANA resettled upwards of 20,000 people per year in the New York City metropolitan area.
As a young engineer, Mr. Newman worked for Gruman Aviation as a project engineer on the propulsion system for the Lunar Module. Mr. Newman has both an M.B.A. and a Masters in Engineering from New York University.
He is the Chair of CB 11 (the Northeast Queens Community Board), a government organization that advises the City on budget, zoning, and service delivery matters. He is the Chair of the NYS Thoroughbred Racing Oversight Board (appointed by the Governor and the Assembly). He is a member (appointed by the NYS Assembly) of the Board of the Public Asset Fund, the State body that manages and sells the shares that resulted from the conversion of Blue Cross to a for-profit organization. He is presently Chairman of the Board of Social Accountability International, an organization that establishes workplace standards around the world and monitors to ensure compliance. Mr. Newman is also on the Board of the Council of Senior Centers and Services.
Mr. Newman was appointed by the Mayor to be a member of the 2003 Charter Revision Commission. He was a member of the National Governing Council of the American Jewish Congress, Vice President for Finance of the Board of the Jamaica Services Programs for Older Adults, the Commissioner of The Little Neck-Douglaston-Bay Village Little League for a half dozen years, and was a manager in that League for over twenty years, and appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly to be a member of the NYS Advisory Council for Municipal Lobbying.
Mr. Newman and his wife Rosemary live in Douglas Manor. Steve has lived in Queens since 1952, when his family moved to Glen Oaks. Between them Steve and Rosemary have five children, three of whom attended District 26 schools. They have five grandchildren, two of whom are attending P.S. 221Q making three generations that have gone to CSD #26 schools. His daughter Dawn has followed in her late mother’s footsteps and is presently the PA President at P.S. 221Q. Two of the other children also live in New York City, and the other children and grandchildren reside in the Washington, DC metro area.
