Turtle & Hughes, Inc.
Lobbying client
Turtle & Hughes is a family-owned electrical and industrial products distributor founded in New York City in 1923, now led by CEO Jayne Millard, a great-granddaughter of a co-founder, and certified as a woman-owned business. It filed 9 disclosures since 2024, lobbying council member Selvena Brooks-Powers through Converge Government Affairs New York on MWBE certification regulations. It has $11.9 million in active city contracts as of August 2026, out of $13.6 million since 2011.
- Council members lobbied
- 1
- Filings (since 2024)
- 9
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $144,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Goods
- City contracts (active)
- $11,852,288 · 2 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $13,562,570 · 24 since 2011, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $1,483,839
- Won without a fresh bid
- 4% of contract value · $506,413 · 7 contracts
- Based in
- Linden, NJ (out of state)
Lobbied these council members
- Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Council Member, District 31 (Queens)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Converge Government Affairs New York, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service City agency
- Department of Environmental Protection City agency
- Department of Transportation City agency
- Fire Department City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Environmental Protection City agency
- Department of Parks and Recreation City agency
- Department of Transportation City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Procurement - MWBE certification regulations
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- 5-year requirements contract for Chargepoint Brand EVSE DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720278801146 $11,752,288
- COMPUTER HARDWARE PERIPHERALS FOR VESSELS Department of Transportation · CT184120268807859 $100,000
- TO PROCURE BALLASTS FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720201200256 · ended 2024 $240,000
- BWT ROCKWELL AUTOMATIC PRODUCTS 2030080X Department of Environmental Protection · CT182620228805398 · ended 2023 $174,824
- PROCURE BALLASTS. DCAS Division of Municipal Supply Service · MA185720171202131 · ended 2019 $170,000
- Computer Hardware, Peripherals, and Related Items Department of Transportation · CT184120238805675 · ended 2024 $100,000
- ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES FOR FDNY BUILDINGS UNIT Fire Department · CT105720201406136 · ended 2021 $100,000
- ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Fire Department · CT105720191406589 · ended 2019 $100,000
- ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Fire Department · CT105720171406766 · ended 2018 $100,000
- ALLEN BRADLEY COMPACTLOGIX PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS Department of Environmental Protection · CT182620201420718 · ended 2020 $93,903
Largest payments, by purpose
The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.
- Furnish electrical materials Department of Transportation · FY2020 $381,334
- electrical supplies Department of Transportation · FY2024 $83,230
- BWT ROCKWELL AUTOMATIC PRODUCTS 2030080X Department of Environmental Protection · FY2023 $70,546
- ALLEN BRADLEY COMPACTLOGIX PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS Department of Environmental Protection · FY2021 $63,693
- Provide Electrical Service to Coney Is Lifeguard Station Department of Parks and Recreation · FY2022 $50,499
- BWT ROCKWELL AUTOMATIC PRODUCTS 2030080X Department of Environmental Protection · FY2022 $37,986
Where their influence converges
Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in
- Selvena N. Brooks-Powers It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction