Oren Galshan opposes 561-A and defends citizen enforcement incentives
Galshan says he grew up in Oklahoma and now supports New York's idling enforcement. He argues 561-A is a poison pill for Intro 11 and defends paying citizens for enforcement work.
Good afternoon.
My name is Oren Galchin.
I grew up in Oklahoma.
I'm the son of a meteorologist who researched climate change for many years.
I'm here to speak against Intro 561A, unsalvageable.
In what I wonder, coming from Oklahoma, which is the exact opposite, in one of the best and most progressive cities in the world, why are we discussing this bill?
A bill clearly sponsored.
by big corporations, and it's written as a poison pill for Intro 11, because Intro 11, no matter how good or bad or high the fines in, won't be enforceable if Intro 561 is passed.
And I would like to address another elephant in the room, something we all know about, that some people are more concerned that the people who actually are fighting every day to keep our air clean are making too much money.
What do I say to all this?
First of all, it's not me.
And second of all, I hope more people make even more money fighting for our air.
There is no barrier to entry in our idle enforcement.
The people most actively involved seem to be the only ones going on TV, doing town halls, and keeping active social media to alert and try and get other people to join.
Would we be saying...
the same thing if there was a similar way to enforce crime tips.
How about tax evasion?
Actually, we do pay people to enforce that, and I'm sure we all want people to get paid more to enforce that.
How about the red light cameras, as someone says, and the speeding cameras?
Do they make too much money?
Should we end them?
These are all successful programs that have survived the test of time.
And let's not forget with idling enforcement, 30% of the work goes unpaid.
I think I heard 40% since 40% of the tickets aren't even paid.
The remainder that does get paid, the city keeps 75% of it.
That's more money for schools, parks, and to close our city's deficits.
Idling enforcement has become such a successful program because of the incredible people that are committed to it.
They're up at 6.
They go out till midnight.
They work weekends.
They have jobs.
It can be 20 degrees outside, snow, rain.
They keep going.
One thing I'll add, they're so lucky that they even got their faces and names printed in the New York Post.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Yeah.
Spirited.
I like that.
Yeah.
No, we can't do the clap thing.
No, it's just the sergeant's old.
Yeah.
You're supposed to do this.
Yes, sir.