Roll Call Continues and Council Member Feliz Explains Vote on Intro 489A
The Clerk continues roll call. Council Member Feliz requests permission to explain his vote, then describes the stress of having a car towed without notice and praises Intro 489A for creating an online database to locate towed vehicles.
Kaban.
Aye at all.
Thank you.
De La Rosa.
Aye.
Thank you.
Dynowitz.
Aye.
Encarnacion.
Aye.
Epstein.
Farias.
Ivor Ainal.
Felder.
Thank you.
Feliz.
Gennaro.
Aye.
Thank you.
Feliz.
Permission to explain my vote.
Permission granted.
Thank you so much.
I vote aye or no.
And as chair of the Public Safety Committee, I'm especially proud to support introduction 489A by Councilmember Vernikov, a bill that would require the creation of an online database with information related to vehicles that have been towed.
Just imagine this.
You park your car in front of your home.
The next day you wake up early to get to work.
While leaving your building, you realize that your car has literally disappeared.
It's no longer there where you parked it.
You see nothing but an empty parking spot.
Your car is gone.
The worst part of this is that you have no idea what happened to it.
Did you simply forget where you parked it?
Did it get towed?
Did it get stolen?
This can create so much unnecessary stress and worry for New Yorkers.
Many of us have been there.
Last year, I was there.
Last year, I parked my car, and it was literally moved with no notice.
I literally had to walk around my neighborhood for about 20 minutes before I finally found my car.
Introduction 489A will easily resolve this issue by requiring the creation of an online database so that if your car has been either towed or moved, you can simply enter your vehicle information
and you can find where it was towed to, how to recover it, and why it was towed.
So I'm proud to vote I know, especially on 489A.
Congratulations, Council Member Renikoff.
Thank you so much.