Pierina Sanchez explains vote - thanks CityFEPs plaintiffs, advocates, and team
Council Member Sanchez discloses CUNY and Neighborhood Defender Services associations. She thanks CityFEPs plaintiffs, the Speaker's team, Progressive Caucus leadership, OGC, Legal Aid Society, coalition partners, and her own staff and family. She also notes historic street vending reforms funding. Votes aye on all, abstaining on Intro 929 and 553.
Verena Sanchez.
I'm disclosing on the record of the council proceedings that the City University of New York and Neighborhood Defender Services is funded in the budget we are adopting, and my sibling and business associate, respectively, are associated with those entities.
Majority Leader, permission to explain my vote?
Permission granted.
I want to take a moment to thank everyone involved in the suit, the budget on this City FEPS win for low-income and working-class New Yorkers.
First, the plaintiffs, Mary Vincent, Caroline Tejada, Mary Cronin, and Susan Axe.
The speakers team, Miguelina Camilo, my fellow Dominicana, Jonathan Zott, and Trit, and Bob Tribual, Simone Jones, the whole comms team, you all have gone in, Julia Agos, Ben Fang, Henry Robbins,
the Progressive Caucus, who really held me down and held us together, especially the leadership, council members, Caban, Nurse, Aviles, and Santos Suoso.
OGC, those that fought this case and won in the courts, Maka Ejeber, our general counsel, Amanda Del Grosso, Jeff Campagna was up many nights.
Thank you.
The ledge division, Andrea Vasquez, Mita Deshmuk, Jeff Baker, the finance team, especially Jonathan Rosenberg, Nick Connell, and Julia Haramis.
The Legal Aid Society, our co-counselors, Judith Goldner, Robert Desir, Ed Josephson, the coalition, Vocal New York, the Homes Can't Wait.
Coalition, Vocal New York, WIN, Coalition for the Homeless, Volunteers of America, Safety Net Project, Community Service Society,
and my team, especially my Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Ben Ratner, and Deputy Chief for Communications and Public Engagement, Kim Castellano, but also Gerard, Dylan, Maria Jose,
Soraya, Oriana, Maria, our chief, there's two of them, two Marias, our interns, Mia, Marcus, and Ari, and finally my family, my husband, Devin, and Yaya, and Lalo, thank you for sharing your mommy with New York City, thank you to my mom and dad,
my brother, Tio Cao, Tia Kaki, the Matthews, our neighbors, thank you for helping with childcare over the many weekends and late nights that we had to work.
I'm thrilled about what we accomplished today.
I'm thrilled about many other parts of the budget.
The historic street vending reforms have money in this budget to be implemented in the next year.
Please wrap up.
Can you please tell me how you're voting?
Yes, okay.
Thank you.
Just shout out to the PC.
I vote aye on all with the exception of Intro 929 and 553 on which I have seen.
Thank you.
My apologies, Council Member.
No or abstain?
Abstain.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.