Brewer asks Sidahmed for his vision and a website update
Brewer asks what Sidahmed's vision is for the office and notes the website is outdated. Sidahmed says he wants agencies to see community media as central to their missions and wants publisher input before making changes.
Council Member Wilson has also joined us.
My other question is, what's your vision for the office?
I mean, even the website, as you probably know, is outdated.
I was looking at it this morning.
That's sometimes where people see vision.
So what is your vision for the office, and when do you update?
The website.
Thank you so much for that question.
Yeah.
As I said, I really do.
who see Local Law 83 as a transformative law, that it could be a law that has, as I mentioned, compounding benefits for New York City agencies and for the city as a whole.
So I think my vision for the office is to really help the different New York City agencies work with me to understand the value of working with community media, that this isn't just something that you have to do because the law mandates it.
This is critical for you to execute on your mission, whatever New York City agency you are, and work with the publishers to help them tell their story internally to different city agencies, help city agencies meet publishers and understand that,
okay, this publisher reaches the majority of this specific community that you need to reach for your program to succeed, and really help
lift up the importance of these community assets across New York so New Yorkers can really see their value.