Chair Sanchez opens public testimony and announces rules
Sanchez announces public testimony procedures: two minutes per witness, no video recording from the witness table, written testimony accepted within 72 hours, and calls the first panel.
All right, I will now open the hearing for public testimony.
I remind members of the public that this is a formal government proceeding and that decorum shall be observed at all times.
As such, members of the public shall remain silent at all times.
The witness table is reserved for people who wish to testify.
No video recording or photography is allowed from the witness table.
Further, members of the public may not present audio or video recordings as testimony, but may submit transcripts of such recording to the Sergeant at Arms for inclusion in the hearing record.
If you wish to speak at today's hearing, please fill out an appearance card with the sergeant at arms and wait to be recognized.
When recognized, you will have two minutes to speak on today's hearing topic of the mayor's housing plan, including the following legislation.
Intros number 178, 649, 717, 860, 905, and 1015.
And Councilmember Banks'bill, 1017?
1070?
Preconsidered, yep.
If you have a written statement or additional written testimony you wish to submit for the record, please provide a copy of that testimony to the sergeant at arms.
You may also email written testimony to testimony at council.nyc.gov within seven
72 hours of this hearing, audio and video recordings will not be accepted.
I also, if you are watching from the overflow rooms too, or the overflow room that doesn't have a number, there are a lot of seats that just opened up.
So please come on by, hang out, it's a party, and I'm very soon going to call on the first panel.
So first up, Lacey Tauber from Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso's office, Emily Goldstein, Sarah Freeman, and Anna Luft.
Again, that's Lacey Tauber.
Emily Goldstein, Sarah Freeman, Anna Luft.
That's, you're the first public panel.
And just so you guys get ready, the next panel, not this panel, the next panel is going to be Danielle Manley from Urban Green Council, Robert Foster, Katie Mui, and Maritza Rico.
That's the second panel.
Okay, great.
Sorry, the first panel is Lacey Tauber, Emily Goldstein, Sarah Freeman, and Anna Luft.
For Emily?
Oh, for Emily Goldstein.
Okay.
We just need you to fill out a slip, okay, for yourself.
We need you to fill out a slip with the sergeant.
But that's okay.
She'll run to you.
All right, and whoever is ready can begin.
Okay, I'll go ahead and start then.