November 26, 2024

I said I'm a wake him. I leave my harm at court towers. I leave my harm in the school president See when people talk about courage, that's why you don't have the ministry right now. He's a has courage Oh good, here you go good. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here The same thing I gave out the same thing when everybody was there but I put something different in there I put in a letter from the New Jersey Supreme Court and it's in reference to our beloved a Minister business administrator that they are modest him Louise I know you for 50 something years. I know you're Scott legacy President Crump, I know you for 40 years You can't be biased and the reason why I'm a little upset with you two guys is because when he got finished a month ago You both guys said thank you. Thank you for your comments Now Louise, I didn't say that the mayor is corrupt When I had the first meeting when I found the complaint against the housing authority and the federal policy came there They asked me was Rosmar rocker corrupt and I said no Then next week when I came to the office They told me everybody's corrupt including your mayor. So it's not me to saying he's corrupt It's the federal criminal authorities and says corrupt now as far as my fiduciary responsibility As you've seen before and I said yesterday I bought in on April the 12th April the 14th With HUD when I found that complaint also filed the suit and then the same day that I filed the complaint the mayor tried to remove me from the Commission as a Y'all don't even know this rain most of it. He tried to put it on Latinos He said Latinos was moving me but what he didn't know was the African Americans Was gonna stay if they did do it sharp James had told his son He said tell the barackas to fight their own battle now So what I'm showing here is where I went the first page is the civil action I asked for a stay because of investigation He said I didn't notify my fiduciary sponsor, but not only I asked I said I need a stay because there's an investigation Then I said, okay when I do come to meeting I want to bring three hours of a conversation video of me and them midi talking Where he's trying to convince me to not do my job The clerk said I don't be a part of this Then the Monica called me and said I may I want to meet me Y'all didn't know he met me and he said let's resolve this So the deal was I dropped the suit and they stopped removing me but the investigation had to go on Both of us agreed that I could not stop the investigation Then what I did to show you my fiduciary responsibility I took federal authorities on my emails and I came 40 times To show you and if you look at some of this stuff, you'll see some of the stuff I'm talking about you if you look at the index you see where I talked about so I reported 30 times About 25 times Louise's things I can't say that's criminal that they won't allow me to say If you look real good, you'll see different things I talked about Different things I talked about so as far as me not proving what I say I come up here and and work slides a little butt to death by giving evidence and then I got three hours of conversation Let's go let's just let's do it let's me you go down to the FBI bill They would love to talk to you with my three hours of conversation. Mr. Ba You big and bad and remember something ba you're not a lawyer here. You're a business administrator So you don't have no what they call privilege Ain't no privilege here. If you see a crime you're supposed to report it The next person i'm coming back and talk about if you see on the page it says

Good evening. Good evening. My name is Miriam ba. I'm a newark resident Homeowner and before I get into what I want to say to the audience I want the audience to know that not every woman has slept To get their job here in the city of newark I've never slept with anybody to get a job And when people say women are sleeping or men or whatever is that they're doing That's on them. Don't put those of us who are not doing that or have not done that in that category Okay, i'm very qualified for the job that I do The reason why I had to come here this evening is because as you know I work with brothers and sisters who have been incarcerated or incarcerated and these shelters are terrible And i'm here to talk about the shelters again About how these brothers and sisters are being treated inside these shelters. It don't matter what color they are The issue that I have is specifically for those brothers and sisters who are coming home from prison If they complain about something they are threatened to be sent back By a coincidence I get a letter from a brother who is now at northern state prison We have to let these shelters know that they just cannot throw people out particularly If we are paying them if we're getting them if we're giving these people any type of abatements We should know what they are doing inside The people who are working inside should not think that they have the luxury to mistreat people And I have an issue with that and that's one of the reasons why i'm saying it because they're coming to me And last week I sent an email regarding two You know from them I sent to some of the council members as well As a city, what are we going to do with these shelters? How are we going to hold them responsible? For how they're treating these brothers and sisters on the inside and more importantly what they need to be doing is have Is having an effective program that prepares them for training prepares them for employment get them jobs and everything And housing housing is key and that's not happening The hotel riviera still has some issues because i'm still getting complaints from from them as well And then the other thing they've been calling me and miss deborah mapson as well As far as help and we we give them as much help as we can give them Just just to say that we need to do more with these shelters to hold them accountable Particularly since we are paying them and I also want to give a shout out to the brothers and sisters in the sanitation department Because they're going through some issues too. I spoke with some brothers last week and they told me that some of them still haven't gotten paid And the reason why i'm asking you these questions is because i'm a nuoc resident I see these brothers and sisters they come to my house And I know the mayor does not want these things happening And that we have to be held responsible for what we're doing to our residents So having said all of that. I just want to say to everyone And i'm so grateful to the creator for giving me 73 years on this earth I have been working since I have been 15 years old

Thank you for your comments. Uh next speaker linda mcdonough carter Good evening first. I want to greet you with my regular how are all the children in the city of north? This evening i'll be returning to one of my major concerns emergency preparedness for their city residents My focus has never been on what happens after a catastrophe but rather how do we reduce the possibility or prepare to avoid? unnecessary panic and fear to give folks the chance the opportunity to think through things before they act out As you all aware until a week ago, we experienced no rain since august 18th 2024 New jersey has been the recent sight of what people would call negative effects of climate change I call it mother earth to be action to our disrespect of her Whatever the cause the people of new jersey are beginning to see the need for emergency preparedness At a communal grassroots level beyond and before the intergovernmental agency level of oem office of emergency management This is a concern i've been expressing to this body for the last two years without much action On behalf of city council except for a council person in quintana who at least suggested that there may be federal funding From homeland security to cover the cost of a public relations campaign to educate and help the residents of this city Prepare in the event that folks would not be prone so folks would not be prone to panic and fear because they were not prepared We can more than speculate that the people of new jersey more particularly the city of newark are going to have to contend eventually With the disruptions to their access to clean drinking water as indicated by recent drought we've experienced Recently published an article stating that a record dry spell had led to the driest conditions in new jersey Prompting is prompting a staggering increase in the number of wildfires around the states and for people who had asthma or respiratory And the and reporting the governor had issued a drought warning on wednesday a couple weeks ago What does all this mean for us as everyday citizens? Well? According to the governor it means and I quote every one of us needs to do everything we can to conserve conserve water And we know newark is known for its water Right, we have a history of that if you don't take that seriously enough even the new jersey american water In the state issue a mandatory conservation notice even though it doesn't have enforcement power over violators stating that we like to restrict yourself We'd like you to restrict yourself if you can but don't they don't have the authority to go around door to door We can have a tremendous impact if we get our customers focused on conserving water But once again, I ask this council. What are you doing to prepare us for the harsh realities? We face in the future for to our water supply We are an unprecedented time of momentous changes that don't speak to the american dream of white picket fences At a decent age and the classic american abundance that was taken for granted two generations ago This is the age of threats from not only nuclear war famine job insecurity food insecurity water scarcity And civil unrest I urge you to take job your jobs as representatives more seriously by picking up the mantle Leading us with education instruction guidance and resources necessary to prepare as was done on a national level Franklin roseville with public relations efforts throughout the country What shelters are available to those who don't have the money to renovate their homes to make them suitable as protective shelters What about those of us who may not be able to afford a month or two weeks worth? Of water in their home or they don't have a home. What can we do? We can offer them knowledge and support I will say and I have more but I have enough time that I will actually be offering a zoom On what people can do regarding water conservation, but not only that how to prepare so we don't have the panic That can come when people don't know where they're going to get their food and water from And this is before you get to the level of office emergency management or american rest cross It's about doing things being proactive not ad hoc

Thank you for your comments next speaker george tillman jr appearing I like to thank the affirmative action committee specifically Councilman deprea and councilman de Silva, but councilman roundtree. I want to really What you you did by coordinating this meeting and getting everybody in that room and having that meeting going for almost two hours In that meeting there was deputy mayor rockman muhammad corporation council keanu stewart William baptiste from affirmative action karen gaylord from norc works and councilman de Silva kind of represented the affirmative action review council and um As I said it concluded on a very positive note because the truth came out it would take them about five to ten years to be able to bring this into compliance so that they could do what they could That be able to comply with the ordinance And the biggest factor was that was stated And I strongly disagree and I was challenged to be the one that produced Qualified skilled tradesmen in the city of newark But one of the things that was said is that the reason why? New york residents aren't on that site is because there are no qualified tradesmen in the city of newark and I said I strongly disagree And they said if you I should find a bring there But the strategies were not aggressive because if you felt that way there should be a massive recruitment I didn't hear that once in the meeting that we were going to do a mass That there are no qualified tradesmen in the city of newark no qualified plumbers no qualified electricians There's nothing in newark. That was the statement given. That's why there's no compliance right now That it be more aggressive and that they take that action To find those tradesmen because you have to prove me that there's no tradesmen in the city of newark Miss bimani issue. We're trying to hear the speaker. Let's be respectful for the speaker so that we can all hear. Thank you And we're just saying that we're going to fix the problem today And it's going to take five years to fix the problem I did speak with the business administrator after the meeting. We had a good discussion about And he said he was going to schedule some other members on the mayor to talk about these immediate strategies that Newarkers won't be working on these construction sites for the next five years

Thank you for your comments next speaker nadirah brown I don't want to say i'm advertising anything nadirah brown No, you know sometimes they say, you know miss brown just address us, please So that we can hear what you have to say here. Well, why didn't you address us and let's go? We can hear what you have to say, please. Okay. Well, let me address this Why is it today the 26 that we have in this meeting during the week of thanksgiving? You had your fun last week celebrating down the ac, but then I gotta hurry up and get here I did answer the audience because the audience is the only people that really care about me right about now About a week ago judge told me to vacate And I know my rights and i've been doing it right and now I gotta sit up here and do an appeal Don't hit me up later. Like oh, I want to reach out to help Imagine how many people in the community going through this but get thanksgiving I ain't had one last year and I don't need one this year Because all the traffic I don't need no pity party But I need you to understand you've been voted in this office to help the community It's so many different issues and concerns going on in this community But everybody giving out a turkey who's going to be able to cook it. I respect that you in this office People city of north y'all voted for them I think it's time to make people accountable for what they're here for She's 15. I'm not even sure if I really want her to come down But I think next month you need to hear the voice of the children But at the same time people come here and imagine the people that can't get to you We have real things going on here and everybody want to take pictures Well, what if we didn't have social media? How would we know what you're doing for the community back in the day? There's no communication going on here at all Thank you all for coming out. Make sure y'all speak up but at the same time Those that are watching this meeting make sure you share it It's time now didn't we learn in this last election? It's time And if we don't come together who's going to do it? You don't have to have big money big line because look they losing it You know, we'd be on me and darry work other week together it's time But the thing about it is we don't have to be best friends, but we need to come together for the same cause Nothing against you. You've been voted in but 2026 will be here soon 2025 too. Don't forget. You got your assembly coming up It's time to put people in that you can understand and talk to If you get in whatever from them, that's your business not my business, but right now it's accountability Let's stop making excuses. Let's stop not liking each other. I don't have to be your best friend to stick together So by next year, no, no start now because well we'll be here in the month. Guess what december or sunday I appreciate the stuff you didn't do too Because it made me more motivated to get everybody together My grandmother always taught me to be respectful I'm not here to be rah rah. I'm really going through a lot You never know what a person is going through But at the same time, I just need you to ask yourself at the end of the day You took this position. What you doing with the position? There's some good things you've done. I'm not going to sit here and say no you didn't But right about now people around here really need you There's a big crisis going on with this housing People with vouchers can't even get housing But I want to say have a happy thanksgiving

Thank you for your comments next speaker munirah el-bulmani It's always a slave catcher coming behind us Now we got these other slave catchers coming behind the comment if the shoe fit Wear it if it don't you know, take it off We need to say everybody in here is sex for hire Good rhythms fail leadership. No other way to describe our government Black slave catchers white slave catchers Okay, and we is with there's no respectable Respect for either administration. We crack the whip on every administration in this city And i've been on this front line doing it for almost 30 years You will remain and continue as we always come up here and say With these people in office these pot of tricksters are helping everybody but us in this city New Yorkers are living in the worst conditions under your democratic administration Fail leadership no other way to describe you we got high rents high foreclosures and eviction tsunami homelessness housing crisis corruption the corrupt greed and more corruption and criminality Wasteful spending and budget mismanagement. You name it. We got it Newarkers is beyond time. We keep coming up here saying it's beyond Time to get rid of them vote them out of office. You didn't recall It should have been this like wall fight What happened and why we got this beach that y'all call in office? It is the reason why he's in here the reason Either it's gonna make you stronger and oh nothing more than we can we don't uh endure jim crow So I know we could enjoy the trump administration We don't endure all of that. We don't do it your pain that you placed on us All you can come here is push sanctuary cities and policies But you won't enforce the first source hiring laws that's on the book to hire newarkers Deputy mayor of full employment really seriously No other way but out of but he got a restaurant Okay off the backs of trying to act like he's some labor union guy you are disgrace you are Abomination no other way to describe you Pass a reparation bill to address the systematic racism discrimination and disparities that we have experienced Resist the democratizes no other solution We've been republicans before the before the end of time here beginning of a time You fail leadership no other way to describe you Black celebrities and hip hop artists that's pushing weed Dispensaries in our community to help destroy our future generation and communities, but you won't push a law Low-income housing jobs at a livable wage and invest in local businesses in our community You are a travesty and a disgrace an abomination I think the genocide is you got rights to speak. This is our public speaking time And oh yeah that lawsuit that the judge gave me to sue every last one of you it's gonna oh my god Thank you for your comment. Yeah, thank you

And courageous 350 000 residents. Good evening. My name is che koulter. I'm a father from here in the city of north Orchestrate not only unity throughout the city But the same way we have rumbles with our own cousins to do better and our own uncles to do better We're going to have to find ways that are even outside of this chamber For us to bring people that are on different sides of different issues Some people have it some people don't have it and we're at trying times. I like to thank Everyone in this building that is a city employee that tries to do the best that they can whether they have that job permanent Today we rise again before the city of north on the increased or decreased distribution of city services Educational system outcomes school to prison pipelines and the safety and security of our local senior citizens First our senior citizens do not deserve to live in unsafe buildings Some of these buildings are owned by entities Receiving corporate welfare and other economic incentives through the north housing authority and the united states department of housing and urban development Our concern is the is enjoying with the commitment and compliance of effective and safe public buildings for our senior citizens Nor collected and non-elected leadership must take a new inventory of the north current state of our senior buildings up to and including their facility support systems Today our school system is a shell of its old self and the state of new jersey is currently imposing very harsh treatment Toward black and latino students even with democrat administrative and elected leadership turning a blind eye to our children's Brutal treatment under the murphy buying years. We must rise. We must rise. We must rise Mr. President, I begged you at the last meeting to one day pass the ordinance All ordinance triple zero for us to bring in the hand drum to be ushered in for all formal meetings If not this next juneteenth but into 2025 we not wait for project 2025 We will re africanize here in newark because we exist more far greater than any project 2025 Now is the moment we must orchestrate unity and empowerment between each other as a city if we truly intend to change the condition That we lack justice fair treatment and clean elections and ethical governance university hospital Must return to its original agreement. Mr. President Using your expertise that god has given you through your mom and the tradition of education that you were raised in Re-inspected and examined under strict scrutiny of this council and your colleagues that we not only have a new magnet school in newark Or one of the existing magnet schools bridge a pipeline of medical gorilla nurses and gorilla doctors and a Revolutionary children who pride academics and are going to be our next medical problem solvers right through university hospital By them being children in newark just because they live in livingston or these other places don't mean that they're the only ones that get But y'all allowing murphy and them to merge it with the wolves and allowing us to lose pediatric services and neurological services And we don't have some of these services locally that we should have at a taxpayer to equity basis Want to lean on to the creativity of god for y'all to find a way with trump to not only save the non-violence intervention money But the hud funding that you previously received under every president we want that to be secure, too Through grades seven through twelve. We're hopeful that y'all will have a discussion with university hospital To expand university hospital scope to the notebook of education Expand that medical component back to what it was when mayor gibson the president at the time who was a democrat Now y'all would have to do it with trump It would be baraka and it would be whoever is the next governor for a binding agreement because razz not I don't He's not afraid to go meet with the people in dc because you got a new president. You've got to wake up

Thank you. Thank you for your comments next speaker deborah sultres You know, I just want to say, you know, it took trump getting elected Migrant situation that I was having and kept asking for legislation for They were doing whatever they wanted in our neighborhoods lounging looking in our doors, whatever Supposed to be delivering food. They're doing everything but Smoking their weed cigars eating their food throwing their trash telling us what to do How many times did I come and it's in he's not here. Mr. Silvers wards How many how many pictures did I send phone calls that I made please that I made can we pass some legislation? So that these people will if they're delivering food picking up food you have 15 minutes to do it and be gone No, i'm talking from 8 39 30 in the morning till midnight We have to look at these people loitering and trashing our neighborhoods vandalizing our cars One of them had the nerve to say to one of the neighbors or he or the neighbor was walking across the street Oh, well, you know one of these nights i'm gonna catch one of these women and take them in the back alley And give them something they think they you know might enjoy And this was before the laken riley incident happened I told this councilman the people in the neighborhood told this councilman and he did nothing about it But now that trump got elected I don't have that problem anymore Um when we talk about the needs of the city, right? So we have gonzalez. You've been in office since Uh cantana you were deputy mayor in 86 and then So as a total we have about 74 years with just the three of you, right? And I have no beef chicken pork with either of you. We have great conversations If I need something for the people I make a call it gets done But when we look at the state of our city and the divide that we have Amongst ourselves who's getting what who's not getting what beefing with this one and that one and the people suffer That's almost a hundred years between the three of you and our city is in a terrible state And that's because you all voted yes to projects that shouldn't have been voted. Yes, too Your salary for your housing and then the other 70 is supposed to provide for everything else Right, you all know this we don't have to use the ami that alison lad has been using You say yes to things that our people can't afford 16 to 36 thousand dollars a year is the area median income Salary for newarkers. So the things that are being built are not built for us, you know this We need an amendment to the uh ordnance that you all passed in the beginning of the year that we pleaded with you Not to do which gives the slumlords and landlords The right to raise our rents up to five percent per year Because they can and don't you know, they jumped right on it Well, we can do it. We can do it. We can do it But what are we getting for that? There needs to be an amendment to that Because you have these slumlords people are living with mold i'm talking You are not experiencing these things that we're experiencing and then uh, we we get yesterday It's another 11 million dollars that we want to give to the water department Didn't we just do a 220 million dollar bond? Y'all are putting us in so much bondage. Our great great great grandkids are going to be paying it But yet you sit in these seats you do photo ops You give out a turkey here and there at dinner you show up. Look, what are we doing? Because what you are not doing is providing for we the people of this city Those who are not from here are getting all of the benefits And we are left holding the bag and cleaning up their garbage Where are the jobs that we should have again? You're holding on to jobs that have been vacant for 10 12 14 years And we have grown men who come and ask for work. They're going back and forth back and forth All of our men are not lazy. They're trying to work. You won't let them Thank you for your comments next speaker opal. All right In charge ain't no white man doing this straightening straight almost set it down straight ninja Good evening. My name is opal. All right. I reside on vanderpult street, newark, new jersey I like at least the time to go directly into Um, this is the wall street reform and consumer protection act and i'm trying to begin with uh, title 11, which is the federal reserve system 201 that federal reserve act amendment on It's a federal reserve act and it's an amendment the third It says is amended and I believe that I started with a Practizable after the date of enactment of this subset sub paragraph Establish by regulation in consultation with the secretary of treasurer policies and procedures governing emergency lending under To ensure that any emergency lending program Liquidy in the financial system and not to add Company and that the search for emergency loan If we were to look in to title 10 because these bank practices are If you're reading you're the individual or the consumer Thank you for your comments next speaker Good evening. Um council president crump and city council members My name is deborah edwards and i'm a lifelong resident of the city of north born and raised here never moved Um as some council's council members may be aware I was formerly employed here for 21 years as the assistant director Leading the division of health planning and strategic planning and grants management And briefly served as chief chief of staff for the north department of health In tandem with the then health officer marsha mcgowan from 2004 to 2014. I was tasked with leading The federal cdc mandate for community needs assessment and health planning improvement activities for the city of north That was a precedent that was set forth by cdc federal guidance Mandated for all state county and local health departments undertaking health planning And health planning improvement activities in a given respective community across the united states The cdc man's mandate was in effect long before the aca and the patient care protection act requirements for similar activities required for non-profit and not-for-profit The city's health assessment and improvement For everything health in the city of newark pulling in the health systems. We had a large planning group of about 52 entities within the city of new to drive health improvement activities which were monitored and reported by the city of north And to decrease the 10 leading causes of death and the adverse impacts associated with that which we had uh in 2008 to 2009 preclude the closures of st. James and columbus hospital which were Transitioned one into an ltac one into a pace Although I was sadly recently found that st. James is no longer A hospital in existence to serve the community of the east ward, although they had been done so for well over 100 years As noted at that time there were 10 hospitals that had closed within a decade To prevent further closures of the division of the division of health and strategic planning We came together under then director maria viscarando And set forth a plan and a strategy where we approached the state of new jersey after we transitioned both those facilities To say we don't want and don't need any further closures Within this in newark or its surrounding communities that led to the development of the president's ceo health systems work group Which was co-chaired by your department of health and co-chaired by the commissioner of health for the state of new jersey That particular group eventually spun out in 2014 into its own non-profit Which is now known to most of you as the greater newark health care coalition I wrote the framework and for those bylaws This group later spun off as a non-profit entity as I mentioned However, the intent of that group when it was put together is not the same intent that we're seeing now Which is now the greater newark health care coalition An agreement was reached between the newark community who gave up their homes and other things displacement of 20 000 residents, etc, etc In exchange for certain promises that were made under that agreement first was martin hospital Which was formally under the operation of the city of newark was transferred to them The not only was the hospital but also the dental and medical schools fell under that Um 56 56 years since the agreement we realized that a lot of people didn't know about it So we developed a coalition to educate the community strictly on the north agreement. Yes, the average person out here They don't know what it is generations have passed You should know that it is the first and only formal agreement like that in the united states between a community and a health care system It's the only remaining public hospital in the state of new jersey The campus of the university was the first established in the state of new jersey That served as the prototype for the other eight that you see in the state that were to follow But this one is the only one under the north agreement From 1992 to now there have been a total of 26 hospital closures in the state of new jersey In this area alone we had united we had three hospitals Irvington general and east orange general is now teetering on the brink We can't afford to lose another hospital in this area. Miss edwards. Thank you for your comments. Thank you

Good evening criminal cult this running our government A resident of newark and requesting from the To conduct a forensic audit of every city agency and department in newark for corruption Newark soul has been stolen by this administration and this council For delivering 50 thanksgiving boxes for my seniors in my community And it warmed my heart that my 92 year old and 84 year old was so grateful And I was asked by them. Why doesn't the city give us turkeys anymore? I told the truth because I raised hell at the council meetings And they are using turkeys to get seniors and residents votes I want to thank quintana and ramos for offering my community turkeys. Thank you arrest made a federal investigation of pipe replacement Cheating labor for their pay and not replacing the pipes Selling land for pennies giving away tax abatements like jelly beans to developers and your friends That's why you keep deferring that one on the on the agenda today, right pat Um halo building and others no project labor agreements cheating labor for their pay This body has never taken back the tax abatement from that halo building When they fail to comply with your guidelines to have a tax abatement in the first place City ablaze fires all over the place. My dad a fireman used to call it jewish lightning. Y'all know what i'm talking about No staff no maintenance of equipment and we rely on other municipalities To put out fires out the largest city in the state While a black man runs our city where's the retention for african americans in fire? Already checked it out with dca your budgets and everything else while you're funding And anchoring salaries for criminals with no deliverables No jobs no career path for young people in this city You got a whole big port over there can't get a job at the airport or none of the ports, but none of y'all don't One billion dollars for the school budget that children three through eighth grade Can't pass a state exam and reading and math While the school board members can spend three million on conferences 680 million in a deficit not including the debt when y'all turned around and passed that budget While while y'all was giving millions of dollars to the water department that y'all still keep giving to the water department Anti-union don't respect union contract language be it police You don't respect union contract language. Why else wouldn't the sanitation workers get their paycheck? And and the police department didn't get their paycheck And while i'm on the subject pay that widow her money that her husband deserved and earned Disgusting all y'all could open up is cannabis, but I see all y'all up there front and center Ain't got no policy on an agency. That's Unregulated y'all are disgusting vote them out

Thank you for your comments next speaker amant vaughn Like seriously mr. Vaughn amant vaughn. Thank you I'm not here to talk about what these people are doing because it's just lying sabotage. Some of this stuff is just ridiculous I want to talk about what I was talking about previously at the previous council meeting undermine the work that the office of violence prevention and trauma recovery in the brick city peace collective And all of our partners many of whom are in the audience today Specifically lieutenant denard said at that meeting that he didn't understand what conflict resolution was he said whatever that is But I want to talk about what that is or has been for the last seven days, right? Who have been out there in the field some of which you have personally personally seen Because some of you were on the scene, too on the day of the league of municipalities north star kit and kip had to we had to push kids Toward the downtown area because they were Gathering in areas that were precluding people from walking by public passage and stuff like that Adults pull up with kids trying to fight one another and fight kids and What was and what could have potentially involved weapons? That and these are these are situations that were intervened in and prevented within the last seven days But I don't want to waste my time because I want to talk about something else, too But the point here is these are the things that the brick city peace collective And the office of violence prevention and trauma recovery Legitimately has going on and you're talking about employing criminals and all of this stuff like that Wouldn't you want us to be employed rather than be back on the block hustling or or? Doing the stuff that we're trying to today reduce in this community wouldn't you want people to be safe? In this community how many of us really want safety in the city of north? Well, guess what the office of violence prevention and trauma recovery and the brick city peace collective and its partners The brothers and sisters who are like the mes and kalil tutts Who are employed by the office of violence prevention and trauma recovery? And the brick city peace collective or partner organizations that are out here every day We're at the hospitals. We're at the schools. We're doing safe passage. We're doing everything that we can We're meeting in backyards. We're discussing with people why violence reduction is important for our community How dare you all come up to this microphone? And talk about what we're not going we have the data and we have the people y'all getting on this microphone talking about issues and problems and lies and And and all this other stuff talk about some solutions What can we do to come together and move forward? You got a vision he got a vision she got a vision Let's get to the table and talk about these visions and begin to bring these visions together To move forward for the whole city of nork And if we're talking about that, let's talk about it Let's we invite you to the office of violence prevention and trauma recovery to the office of brick city peace collective Come learn what we do learn the resources that are available learn the people who are working for the organization or for the Department come learn learn don't criticize Don't judge don't believe everything you hear on this microphone either because some of it is just not the truth. Thank you

Mr. Vaughn, please just not you ain't trying anymore Because this can't be us versus them and you allow it larry. I'm not allowing it. Let's go and i'm not lying Tell him to stop saying i'm lying because i'm not As is coming doing the same thing give me a second miss jackson doing the same thing jackson give me a second If you do not stop speaking you will be removed No, stop the time. Yes, stop her time. I'm putting back where it was give her a few more seconds on there All right, all right miss doc miss doc everybody Everybody, please it's not going to be and let me tell you something. I didn't agree with everything true said But I did not say one word while he talked You are not going to allow people that come to this mic to be Disrespected by the people that work for you and you're not going to do it larry. You're not i'm trying Sharif need to be quiet and if they can't why they may disagree with what i'm saying They don't have the right to keep talking behind me. I gave them that respect even though I did not agree Miss doc, I'm, I mean miss doc. Excuse me. Miss jackson get it corrected Let me say let me stop the time for a second if I see or hear something from either So let's continue everybody who needs to go out in the hallway go out in the hallway now And let's let miss jackson finish her speaking You know, it's so much pain in this community Because see when them kids get it in at the mcdonald's Cassandra myself and munira make a call to the owner because she know her Now the mcdonald's is shut down every day from two to four Because the kids was mixing it up right there on springfield Then they started mixing it up on west market and it ain't enough of us out here No matter what side we on to quell what's going on in this damn community So 80 seniors got burned out at 920 franklin while y'all was down in lander city shaking y'all butts Nobody felt the need to get to the scene because she was in the lander city again When chief bradley got collapsed on by a chimney and three other And i'm telling everybody in here because we don't agree with razz don't fight us Because we paying bills. We homeowners. We renters like you we getting evicted too Y'all didn't bring everybody to the table when you started this Ain't nobody called dana because I am a damn community leader and have been for 40 years Qv is my son, but he wrong today. He's disrespectful And he got to get spec so I see him in the hallway because that's the kind of love we got i'm gonna get him But when we talking about what's going on in this city y'all don't listen Okay, you'll find a couple of scenes with them you ain't there all the time It's a whole bunch going on at every school in this city. Thank you for your comment Oh, no, you ain't put my time back on it larry don't play with me when I started speaking that thing was on 192 Now now now i'm gonna try to be respectful. I'm gonna tell you this miss jackson What you gonna tell me we'll give you 30 more seconds at least 30 I'll give you but that's fine. That was watching the time. You know where it was i'll deal with you larry I'll deal with you because I see you want to play games. You don't let that seat go to your head Illegal immigrants on the uptick still here. We are sanctuary city. What's the impact of that? We keep letting them take our bottles in plastic and what y'all doing about the water shed the water shed been on fire for a month Y'all haven't said nothing to the public about that you haven't said anything about montana nothing about roman in the last service line That black company ain't the only one that ain't finished them lines. I watched them when they did my block I've been coming down here telling y'all the work wasn't done correctly. And what about all the houses that they skipped? Oh, you got a titanium pipe. Oh, you got a corroded pipe. Come on You gave me 30 seconds larry, but I will deal with you because you're wrong

Not appearing next speaker darnella lee. I don't see darnella lee not appearing Unfortunately, and it's very unfortunate. Hold hold one second. Stop that clock larry one second Let me get myself together one second. Stop that clock And now I got to redo my whole thing what I was going to say, but you know what? Let me just go back to what I was going to say The one thing I do know is we're about to have a governor's election So that this black negro here can sit what I call down Dozen faith leads the pack you negro. It won't matter Unfortunately son and those from ovp i'm gonna talk about razz j baraka or fm day See because we want to put fear into people's heart about what trump is going to do But what about what the black man that run this city did? Was it the white man or was it the black man charlotte maine the god ray quine? That put the weed store downtown north where our kids had to walk back and forth He doesn't care because his kids don't go to school down here and the same day He did that weed store opening in his hometown of south carolina He did a press conference about the bill houses for the homeless And you do nothing at all. We got a big picture of you smiling You're so happy about the weed store and you had the nerve to tell me what you're gonna tell your little brown Nieces about me using the word darkies. Well, what you're gonna tell them about you Excited about a weed store coming downtown that could possibly now it's legal alcohol is legal And we also know that weed has been the gateway for many people that's out strung out on drugs right now It's been the gateway. So who did that again? Even down to like things that the ticket parking ticket from 45 To what is the 90? I thought it was 75. Who did that white man trump or black man razz? Constantly telling you about the water the water crisis even cam cam came here stood with him and said everything was good So we talk about when we talk about what's going on people whatever you're going through now Isn't the white man murphy down in trin? Democrat whether it's east orange whether it's errington whether it's north whether it's orange or black And I tell y'all all the time when I come to this bite. I'm not talking about the others I'm talking about us because even the bible tell you god gonna start with his own About killing your own kids to when they start to get struck out and you know our kids I have to go back to that store because i'm so pissed off about it. You know our kids is dying from these edibles Yeah, and you I know oh, I know what you're saying. Oh, they gotta show id Well, how easy what it was it back in the day for you to ask an adult to go buy you something So you know that line in one of your raps running from the police? Police ha ha, okay now we're gonna be getting high And created things to run from the police from so when you lay down at night negro When you laid down at night you think about it Because all you want to do is be with your rat friend And i'm gonna tell you something razz i'm gonna talk about you every chance I get negro Because you know what I want you to be doing. I want you to suffer just like everybody else you making suffer here When 2026 get here get that plane train bus, whatever gets you out of here take your black Whatever in Ghana, whatever part of Africa you gotta go to negro god because you did nothing I'm telling you because you was at the weed store. I saw you too I'm tired. Thank you for your comments next speaker, but you was there too tucker next speaker. Okay next next speaker Miss doc miss doc. Let's next speaker, please Let's have some quiet so we can hear the speaker, please All right, peace and peace and bless to the people No, this is a lot of energy in here man, you know, so we all just gotta just relax man And thank god for all us is being here being able to come together and figure this thing out How we could bring you know, peace and safety to each other, you know A lot of people coming in here, you know doing a lot of name calling using this platform You know, I mean to bash people we should be using these platforms to build each other up to find out What's the real solutions that we need to build in our community, you know to protect our people? So my name khalil tut, you know, i'm the president founder of an organization called new direction New direction is something I created when I came home from prison I served a significant amount of time in prison for you know, a high profile situation that happened in our city You know it brought a lot of pain the trauma to our city and I was a part of that You know and I was a part of you know that gang culture that violent gang culture that irma pence gang culture That we have seen in our city since he came here and you know I became you know a victim of my circumstances When I you know decided to come outside and join gangs and get involved in legal stuff in my community And I went to prison and I served 15 years for it when I was in prison I had to search it within myself had to find god I had to find myself and find what dark things that was going on inside of me that affected You know my mentality and you know, I was able to find things in there to help me grow mature You know and I came home with a vision for my people My people is the gang culture where I come from, you know And we never had no peaceful movement in that came culture We never had nobody to bring us together to show us another way of banging or to show us another way of putting off Our people we never had that so when I went away I found that and I brought it back to my culture and it was recognized by our mayor, you know And I respect him for recognizing it for him having the courage to even to deal with somebody like me who you know It's going to be you know a lot of you know You know politics come into play when you're dealing with people who were charged with certain situations in the city and some people You know don't want to have no forgiving hearts for us So for him to have an opportunity to give me the opportunity to work with me It's a work with my people and for me to be able to join the office of violence prevention at brick city peace collective And to get resources from them to teach us how to be better leaders in the community To provide resources to some of our people who never would have walked into a whole precinct before because they come from the streets But we able to gain a relationship with people who care about the community to help us You know bring peace to our community and we was able to bring people from that street culture into the office of violence prevention And the brick city peace collective to come together to create a peaceful movement within our city To help our gang culture to help our street culture and to bring the violence down in our community And the last time we checked we heard that murders was going down in north and we felt like you know, man And to doing the work that we've been doing out here And we're going to continue to do this work We have built the safe fashion team into some of our people that you have Standing up here with me some of the young bros that you know Was a part of you know the violence in the schools and fighting we got them protecting the schools now And putting those images out to the other a lot of the other young kids Helps them get more involved with the movement because those most of our problems we be having out here at the schools is You know kids fighting and then adults getting involved and then they coming up to the school And now we got a bunch of adults other adults fighting then somebody could get hurt and that's what happened in my situation You know, I was a part of a situation to happen like that. So that's why this work is so passionate to me It's not about no money. It's not about accolades or awards It's about a vision that god gave in my heart and me coming back to serve my community to show The opposing me just saying I apologize for my actions I wanted to show it by my actions to come out here and to and to help These these schools be safe and to make sure that another officer won't that won't happen to another officer at a school You don't mean that's my job to make sure that they don't happen because if I do have influence And I can use my influence in the right way and I can prevent anybody from getting hurt or another officer anybody for getting shot Kindly with my heart and i'm gonna do it with pure hands and clean heart because I went to god I went to the altar he forgave me and I felt like that made me forgive myself and I could come out here And I could come clean I could come with a straightforward approach to my people and do the work because this guy's plan He changed my heart and i'm gonna hold that all the way through and through and we live in an evil world We have a lot of people that don't believe In righteousness and we have a lot of evil spirits in this room And I just sit back watching seeing everybody pointing the fingers about this or putting the fingers about that who taking pictures of it Who's doing this it don't matter who's doing nothing as long as we all doing our job We ain't gonna expect a councilman to be on the corner all day That's why they're counseling they up there to make rules make regulations send it down to us Some of us agree some of us don't but I appreciate all the work you all do pack council do it all Rain moose I was down there with rain moose we came to met helmet down there steven crane It did some things for the community down there and we love the work that y'all out here doing We don't know all the policies on that one ain't worrying about keeping people safe And that's our job with this work is to make sure our kids are safe going in and out of school And to make sure our people could go to the store safe And ain't nobody getting shot because no gang wars and none of that stuff is going on in our city And I believe new direction the office of violence prevention brixie peace collective played a part In reducing a lot of the gang violence that was in our city. Thank you for your comments

Aliyah clark, okay. Um, yes. Hi. I'm aliyah clark. I am also one of the members of new direction I'm here because I was destroyed about even listening or coming to the last council meeting where you had officers speaking Ill will um on regards to kalil tut in the office violence and prevention trauma and brick city peace collective Because i'm here to stand in front of all you activists all you young older women Y'all not setting a great example for us and i'm starting right there because we were taught to respect our elders We were supported to respect authority and we're supposed to stand on that How are y'all asking them to stand and y'all not standing for us? Y'all the adults that we supposed to be hearing and listen to miss manera. We hear you We hear you you don't have to respect morass, but you said you respect the people so we're speaking to you now I don't care what you don't like but i'm talking to you now directly because you spoke on about how people Are getting money out here and getting everything from kalil tut or getting money of organizations of ov ptr doing No, they are doing the best that they can for what they got and what they're being given We're struggling every day. I don't see you in bradley court 24 7. I don't see you down on anon I don't see you down there in higher court I don't see you across town in the south with me and pat and we're doing all in all of us I don't see you down there when the gunshots are rangin and kalil tut standing in front of gang wars Stopping gang wars. I don't see that. So everybody that's speaking up here today We're speaking about what's really factual. We're trying to tell you facts today Safe passage of new direction brick city peace collective is working. You know why that's why murders are reduced That's why these kids are standing here today who your most dangerous dangerous children. They come to us They come to the ov ptr office and she rely kalesha winfield rely on our help kisha You already rely on our help. We are their help in these schools Charter school just gave us something that noor didn't give us yet They didn't give us an opportunity to say passage and we're coming today to ask for opportunity to say passage because we promise you We can reduce some of your problems in this school when they get real leaders real people real godly people We're not doing this for money. We don't care about your money We care about results. We care about our kids going to the next level to schools to colleges I'm from the number blocks straight off of avon avenue. I've been shot I've been ran over and i've been stabbed two centimeters from my main artery But guess what i'm still standing and I got two master's degrees I'm still standing because of your educational system. They can't tell me about nurk because I am nurk These people can't tell me who you are because I saw what y'all did for us So I need y'all to stand with us with safe passage Stop letting speak speak ill will against klil tut because he's not that monster that y'all used to know He don't have to go to y'all because god is all he said he gonna be He said you come to me and i'll make your enemies your footstool. So we're standing on that today Ramos, we need you. We need to be a part of your community We need to come out to the north and help you you got issues at barringer. We can help that Shambay he do the best that he can he bust butt over there But we want to come in and we want to be a partnership with that These are the things that everybody's forgetting about we know y'all have tough decisions Mother round tree. We know that you are out there hills high snow rain sleet or snow you and la monica So we're not fighting against that we're fighting against poverty. We're fighting against drugs We're fighting against warmness amongst us because we have war with each other Y'all have nothing to do with this. We got to fix in house first and in house come from our streets our unity How can we have unity in the community we got people up here yelling at y'all So we standing today with you new direction with 200 strong ovptr. We 200 strong these people can't stop what y'all can do You understand what i'm saying? So we need y'all to stand in bed and one thing for sure don't speak on spat council He bust his butt every day since we was a kid and grandma sitting at grandma table with grits and strength He knew what time it was he's here for the people Do it all and ask for us that he didn't give us nothing, but he gave us everything My grandfather was a pastor right there on chadwick seaworth and clinton avenue where the church that they built down. Okay pastor clark You understand with me and i'm telling you I am a god-fearing child So anything come up against new direction movement you're gonna deal with god because we from spirit We forgot and all you elders that's older than us you women Stop going against other women. We need to be empowered by this Stop going against kalesha stop going against roundtree. Stop going against lamonica at the end of the day We all sit at the table miss dana. I believe in you miss clark. I believe in you. We sit at the table We can do this together. We need you miss clark. Thank you for your comments. Thank you. I'm sorry. It's all right

Come on. Let's keep order. Let's keep order, please Council president council members that conclude miss bumani Miss bumani, please let's have some order so we can continue with the action brother. Sharif. Who caught he started on Remove her right now remove miss mamani right now Lamont will be next officers. Let's remove everybody being disruptive right now So as they get get everything under control, I just want it in in in response Let her know that I felt her her passion tonight That she has put a lot of work in this community on the street organizing To change the community. I do also want to let her know that You know, we were with the the fire fat captain will bradley Who's a dear friend of mine? I've been at the hospital with him Aware of that making sure that those families were placed and fine and so I don't I don't want That something is not happening when we're working to put our best foot forward to help These residents as they go through trying times, especially during this season In these holiday seasons because they're not always pleasant for everyone And so we definitely recognize that I do want to uh speak to something that uh, Very hard for black and brown people and for people who are sitting in this room and sitting home watching television That we were able to endure jim crowe in slavery And because of that we should be able to endure Four more years of of donald trump, but what we have to understand is that because we endured Does not mean it hasn't set us back for years or had an effect on us As black and brown people and so we have to recognize and understand that For ourselves as a community and as for people and we really have to be tuned in And there was an ordinance that was passed But it did not give any landlords the right to raise outrageous rents as we have rent control ordinances here A component which was offered through the state as well as this municipality and through our rent control Ordinances and board here. We work very tirelessly to make sure That there are standards among that and continue to encourage residents who are out here because i'm a main proponent for it And if you feel that there is some injustice going on around rental payment What landlords are doing because many of them out here are egregious? Right and we have to begin to to work to synthesize that and get people to work with us To make sure that we are fighting against these individuals who are taking advantage of people here And in order for us to do that, we have to have the information and we all have to be organized around what is happening Uh, so people are not putting people in harm's way and so that is is is important And move forward with that miss edwards came and talked about the newark agreement Which was a component and I believe that every council member up here Is a strong advocate to ensure that that newark agreement is in place Because there's many people who are no longer with us that have fought for the right for the city fought for the right To make sure that not we just receive good health care, but we receive great health care and great services That take a part in what is happening in this city. And so, you know, i'm going to Be the first, uh, you know to say outside of my colleagues that we are Behind making sure that the newark agreement stays in place making sure That the hospital is doing everything in its power to provide adequate accurate great services to the people of this community each and every day And so we we have to do that. I definitely um just wanted to you know speak speak on those things because I think it's important That we begin to keep stuff in in perspective, you know as as we move out from here Thank you councilman councilman kelly. Thank you council president. Um, I just kind of want to uh, Go off of what councilman council said about I know che culture came up here and um, he talked about expanding employment opportunities and giving um our residents the opportunity to have these these hospital jobs You know last year I visited some of our our medical facilities We even put medical facilities in our neighborhood in the west ward He was right. I had the same type of thought That is exactly what they allowed us to do. We have a pilot program that's happening at west side high school Where we're hiring the high school students at university hospital giving them opportunities Um to be an apprentice in university hospital No one has ever done this before you had to go to some type of medical educational facility to get that Those uh degrees or certificates now we're going we have university hospital with the president the ceo Um ed him and there's going coming to our communities coming directly to the number blocks to to uh, the community centers in our neighborhoods coming to our high schools And setting up programs that they can go straight to university hospital and have the opportunity to get employment We started at west side high school, but i'm sure that this program will go city wide very fast You have captain peppers who was leading the charge to make sure that our children our youth are Being represented properly and having the opportunity to be at university hospital So what che was talking about we are actually doing you know, it is in action Um, secondly, I just want to uh, you know, it's a tough time in the city It's a tough time in the city right now for everybody Even and you don't know what what these council members up here, you know My colleagues go through on a daily as well. It's a lot of weight and that's not a complaint It's just saying that sometimes things get heavy You know, uh, I have family members who are looking for for housing and I still have to tell them to go through the proper Process they can't get any benefit just because i'm the councilman I wish I could and i'm being transparent with you. I wish I could You know, so when you talk about what you're going through we're we're lifelong norcas We're going through the same exact thing So when you have someone come up here and beat you down every day, especially when you're putting in the work But they don't see it or it's not done like you like it to be done That doesn't mean that the work is not being done just because you don't don't like it that way doesn't mean that it's not being done Um the office of violence and prevention and trauma recovery and brick city peace collective and why i'm saying i'm saluting them Because when I call them they come and do the work When I need a safe passage for my charter schools in a west ward the police didn't do it The office of violence and trauma recovery did it Brick city peace collective did it. I had to go through so much process As councilmen with our own police department to give safe passage, but they did it So when you when you try to bash people who are doing the work, it doesn't feel good up here and I know Sometimes they look people look at me. I hear I hear the i'm looking at them crazy. I'm I am I am looking at you crazy sometimes because we got to sit up here and take it I have to take people calling me out my name But when I before I was councilman and I was on the street nobody ever did that to my face But now I got to sit up here and take it because I am part of policy making and doing something good in this city That's what all of us are up here for from the north to the to the south to the west to the east and the central They try to pit us against each other, but these are good people up here We might not always agree but I guarantee you that we are up here to do our best to Assist and help all residents of newark, new jersey It doesn't mean it's not heavy doesn't mean that we're not doing the work The other day to give out hot meals not turkeys because when I was giving out turkeys Sometimes it was so big that it couldn't even fit in the oven of certain residents to cook it So I decided you know what i'm going to take ten turkeys I'm going to cook them with all of the all of the accessories that go with it and i'm going to feed the people And we still come back and do it and we still come back and fight for you guys You know true v. Um, you know mont vaughn. He came up here and said it real Everything that you hear at this mic is not real is some of it real Yes, we sat with affirmative action with george timmon and we came to some type of understanding We we talked to mama bay and we come to understandings But everything on this microphone is not Thank you. Thank you councilman. Uh councilwoman scott roundtree She has some real concerns and i'm sure my colleagues have those same concerns The shelters the services for the shelters. There's no reason someone should be in a shelter She did a couple of sweeps. I did some walkthroughs and i'm not ashamed uh the fact that there was a shelter that I requested um to be Inspected and was shut down for a period of time Um, the unfortunate part of that is when you shut it down they have to have somewhere to go That that's the issue but the conditions were so horrific that they were living in that we had to do that Which hence they ended up going to another shelter Looking into so we will talk after this you have myself There's no we can resolve some things right in my office Um and and look into that the other thing is those who are coming home And their conditions, and we know we have individuals that work with reentry as well as you Miss alters spoke about the gentlemen that are coming home from jobs We looked we need to look into the services that are offered and all the people accountable that have those services Those jobs and follow all the way through a lot of times We'll start a process and then wait for people to get back to us and we have so much coming at us as Elected officials our job and some people think they say our job is to legislate. That's just some of it Beyond legislation. We're not sitting up here. We have to be out there And as far as ovp is concerned and barry and kisha they were doing this work before I came on the scene Once I came on the scene. I started doing the work And their counseling counsel do pray kelly we have all been in crime scenes Hospital visits we've done the work. We're just thankful to god. We got some help Because for seven years then the mayor wanted somebody out there while he was developing Ovp guess who it was me and counseling counsel We were the ones shooting up to the hospital and trying to make sure the families are right and going to the funerals And all of these things they may have been wanting this for a very long time And why would we not want to see someone's life turned around? We the bible declares we are peculiar people, but it does not say we're perfect So we're just a peculiar people trying to get the job done, right? And we might not be doing it to your expectations But then I also believe that we all come together as which was stated earlier Instead of trying to create division amongst not just those that sit up here Sanitation, I don't know who's going to address that issue with the pay Um the master recruitment. Mr. Tillman. That is something that should be looked into In reference to umd and j i've been meeting with umd and j I chair the community advisory council I made it very clear to them that there should be no community advisory council if the community is not involved in the discussions So with all of that being said we can talk about a 1968 agreement that might not be being adhered adhered to That we want to see the change what changes we want to see We got to talk about what changes we want to see we can't keep talking about what's not being taken care of And not talk about what changes we want to see in 2024 because whatever took place in 1968. That's a very long time ago Because people have been talking about umd and j and what they're doing and what they're not doing Which is what councilman kelly spoke about regarding west side being a part of their program I didn't want to sit with just umd and j Anymore, I wanted rutgers medical school to be at the table So we hosted our first meeting with both of them being at the table So people wouldn't be asking Rutgers umd and j questions and umd and j Rutgers questions Because umd and j can only answer partially. They really can't answer for Rutgers So there'll be some more meetings with everybody at the table So if you have questions for umd and j let president jimenez Answer them and the representatives for the medical school Which is dean strong and dean murph to answer those questions and that's how we resolve things Not this one in that corner saying something and that one in this corner Addressing because they have a little bit of knowledge because everybody has knowledge doesn't mean it's a fact just because you know something So i'm just saying let's try to do better at coming together On the issues that you do bring to the mic such as mr. Stillman stated Something had to come out that meeting there's no way you can bring every department to a table and there's no resolve At all the problem is nobody wants to come to the table because they don't agree with some of the people at the table So if we really want to do something we'll all come together on that particular issue And you want to invite newark invite them to the resolution Thank you council president. Thank you councilwoman and shout out to obp Because me and pat council wasn't getting no sleep Oh, thank you. Mr. President. I just want to address something that um, donna jackson The area over at 9 15 franklin it was miss salters actually who reached out to me saturday to inform me And um, you know, I was able to go on on the site And then yesterday met with some of the tenants were affected Um, and and I think at some point once the investigation is concluded in terms of what actually caused the fire What the outcome was the good news is that they were able to get power back We did have a number of the residents who were sleeping at the uh waterfront rec center in the gymnasium they were able to relocate to a hotel Yesterday and hopefully at some point soon They'll be able to get back on the property And I would imagine that there's some units that were significantly damaged and some of the tenants may not be able to Move back into those units. They may have to be relocated Um, but I do want to note that for at least two weeks We've had a lot of complaints about psc and g issues in that area And it's to me. It's not a coincidence that we had So i'm hoping again once once the investigation is concluded Because this could have been very deadly You know, we're fortunate that I think just one resident got minor injuries, but you know if you saw pictures of the Actual fire and and the confusion that was happening that day on the site You know, this could have been a really really bad situation All right. I have a couple things. I just want to bring up. Um One of the things that councilman ramus you touched on but um, I had spoken to the ba yesterday And I meant to mention it to the executive Public safety is you know, it seems to not seems to but around this time there there are a lot of It seems like there are more fires. I'll say put it that way And hopefully we can get the public safety Department to put out maybe some kind of uh flyer or information So that people know what not to do to keep uh space heaters away from certain areas at certain times Etc things like that to hopefully prevent some of these fires from occurring It's it's getting cold and people are using You know some folks may not even have heat and therefore they're going to have their stove on Uh with water, you know boiling in it. Let's see if we can put something together Hopefully if there isn't already something that we can share with the community Miss mcdonald carter left but oem is going to be at the special conference was invited to be at the special conference