Freddie Recio testifies on water and La Junta

Gracias.

Next, we're going to have Freddy.

You may begin.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

My name is Freddie Recio.

I am a enrollment coordinator at the Brooklyn Education Opportunity Center.

And I just wanted to express my.

I just want to express my support towards the resolutions being talked about today.

I am a second generation Puerto Rican.

citizen.

My mom is from Rio Piedra.

My dad is from Camagüey, Cuba.

So I understand both of the situations that are going on currently over there.

As one of my co, as one of the people that we're speaking on here today, one of the requirements for Project This NCI to operate is that there's 1.25 to 1.5 million

gallons of potable water to be distributed.

And that's only for residency.

That's only for showers and baths.

And if you want to flush the toilet.

They said that the maximum projection for gallons is around 3.65 to 4 million, and that's taking care of the resort.

There is a history in Puerto Rico where there are high-rise residentials, luxury apartments that are abandoned and full of mold.

Why?

Because there is a neglect problem that is going on with the people that are building there, right?

We have to not only look at that, but take accountability.

for Praça and Luma.

We need to look at them and see what is going on with the situation while also disbanding La Junta.

I am just a regular person.

I am a second generation Puerto Rican citizen, but I have seen what's going on on the island personally.

And as a Puerto Rican and Cuban,

you know, person of descent, I don't approve of it, you know.

I had to do water distributions by myself, you know, buying water from CVS, from the local gas station to give out to people in the street.

You know, when there was a water outage for four days.

Time expired.

All right, I had to give,

people around the community and my close friends showers, right?

So if I'm doing that as an American citizen, right?

Why can't the government do that as well?

Right?

So now we got to look at the resolutions and see how can we fix the problems not and these problems were not only put on us from years ago, you know, like

I have a grandmother who had copper IUDs in the 60s, you know, and that's when they were doing the copper IUDs and the birth control.

You know, we're all a part of the history.

Yeah.