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Chair Schulman closes the hearing

New York City Council · Jul 15, 2026 · starts 9:24:10 · 1 min 54 sec

Chair Schulman closes the hearing, noting written testimony can be submitted within 72 hours, thanking council members, staff, and Speaker Menin for her leadership through the long day of testimony.

Lynn C. Schulman

Thank you to everyone who has testified.

Lynn C. Schulman

If there's anyone present in the room or on Zoom that has not had the opportunity to testify, please raise your hand.

Council Staff

Use the Zoom raise hand function.

Lynn C. Schulman

Use the Zoom raise hand function.

Lynn C. Schulman

Okay.

Lynn C. Schulman

Seeing no one else, I would like to note that written testimony, which will be reviewed in full by committee staff, may be submitted to the record up to 72 hours after the close of this hearing by emailing it to testimony at council.nyc.gov.

Lynn C. Schulman

I also want to thank Councilmember Carmen De La Rosa.

Lynn C. Schulman

I want to thank Chris Marte.

Lynn C. Schulman

I want to thank Councilmember Phil Wong, who came and left and came back.

Lynn C. Schulman

And...

Lynn C. Schulman

These are the administrative staff.

Lynn C. Schulman

I want to thank the council administrative staff, Michelle Otis, Raquel Faria, Mark...

Lynn C. Schulman

Bermudez.

Lynn C. Schulman

I also want to thank the committee staff again, Christopher Pepe, Elizabeth Arts, Josh Newman.

Lynn C. Schulman

It's been a very long day and I want to thank my team, Jonathan Boucher,

Lynn C. Schulman

Kevin McAleer, Sammy New, who's here, went and came back.

Lynn C. Schulman

It was very grueling testimony.

Lynn C. Schulman

We got a lot done today.

Lynn C. Schulman

I want to thank everyone for all of their patience.

Lynn C. Schulman

I particularly want to thank the speaker, Julie-Menin, for her leadership on this and for helping get us through all of this.

Lynn C. Schulman

And with that, I am concluding this hearing.