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Procedure

Hearing takes a break

New York City Council · Sep 30, 2026 · starts 3:15:11 · 9 min 29 sec

The hearing is in recess, with staff asking attendees to keep noise down and take conversations to the rotunda.

Council Staff

Ladies and gentlemen, keep the noise down, please.

Council Staff

You still have a hearing rolling.

Council Staff

Please just keep the noise down.

Council Staff

Please take conversations to the rotunda.

Council Staff

Thank you.

Unidentified speaker

Oh, no, you give it to that person right back there.

Unidentified speaker

How you doing?

Unidentified speaker

Yeah, what brought you to this here?

Unidentified speaker

Yeah, right.

Unidentified speaker

Just wait.

Unidentified speaker

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Unidentified speaker

Yeah, that's right.

Unidentified speaker

CIS has a new tenant.

Unidentified speaker

We just met him, W.

Unidentified speaker

Long Taylor.

Unidentified speaker

How are you?

Unidentified speaker

And he seems really good.

Unidentified speaker

He's like 16.

Unidentified speaker

I'm passionately committed to this particular subject here.

Unidentified speaker

We always look.

Unidentified speaker

Yeah, you've got to have that.

Unidentified speaker

Yeah, and maybe like, there's a lot of shuffling around in the Bureau, so you don't always get somebody who's really that committed.

Unidentified speaker

So I feel like we've got a lot of really good people working with us right now.

Unidentified speaker

And I think we're making strides.

Unidentified speaker

And we absolutely are.

Unidentified speaker

Absolutely.

Unidentified speaker

Absolutely.

Unidentified speaker

I mean, like, you heard, I don't know if you noticed, at the beginning, the commissioner...

Unidentified speaker

From two years ago.

Unidentified speaker

And last year was the historic year.

Unidentified speaker

We're down nine.

Unidentified speaker

Last year was the second historic year.

Unidentified speaker

And now we're going to the historic year.

Unidentified speaker

So, yeah, I mean, we're doing a lot.

Unidentified speaker

We're doing really well.

Unidentified speaker

We're doing really well.

Unidentified speaker

I feel like the COVID fever is over.

Unidentified speaker

We've got a whole new plan of lots of new things we want to do.

Unidentified speaker

This is the hard topic.

Unidentified speaker

Oh, my God.

Unidentified speaker

I mean, this is never going to end.

Unidentified speaker

Yes.

Unidentified speaker

My fantasy for this year is it's our number one legislative agenda.

Council Staff

So I'm now starting the project from typing up the names.

Council Staff

We have a lot of the workers that have just came in, so yeah, the health part.

Council Staff

Yeah, so I'm gonna, I guess, type off the names.

Council Staff

The Avisa folks are basically taking care of if they've identified themselves.

Council Staff

I'm just gonna move more to the staff with their list.

Council Staff

We also have Antonio Bernoso, open world president.

Oswald J. Feliz

What were you thinking?

Council Staff

Ladies and gentlemen, please do not block the doorways.

Council Staff

Again, do not block the doorways.

Unidentified speaker

wants to restart, where are we?

Council Staff

Ladies and gentlemen, quiet down, please.

Council Staff

Find your seats.

Council Staff

We will be resuming shortly.

Council Staff

Again, ladies and gentlemen, find your seats.

Council Staff

Find your seats.

Council Staff

We will be resuming shortly.

Council Staff

Please find your seats.

Council Staff

Find your seats.

Council Staff

Take your conversations to the rotunda.

Council Staff

Thank you.