May 21, 2025

he says, men are the protectors of the women. My name is Alif Muhammad Khor Towers. Alif Muhammad, president and founder of Alif Muhammad Nearschool. I am really emotional today. I'm angry and I'm sad. I'm angry because the mayor of this city allowed a 38-year-old woman and an 80-year-old woman in front of him when he was being arrested. That's the picture I'm sending you, that they were in front of him. They should have been protected. He should have pushed them out the way. They should have never been in this situation. It was all ego. And what I mean by ego, they say when you have an ordinance problem or something like that, and you can't resolve it, you go to court. The city did go to court. They went to the wrong court, but they ended up in federal court. And then, evidently, there was an emergent situation because they let some inspectors in there, and it was not an emergency. So that's why the judge didn't rule. But the mayor was like, I'm the mayor. I'm going down there because I watched it every day. I'm going in there. The arrogance. And what happens is you bad and tough, but when them people came at you, the rest of you was like a dead with headlights. And then when you got arrested and came out of that place, you came out and you did a five-hour bid. He did a five-hour bid. And come out, I want to go see my babies. But you tough. You walk around talking that tough stuff. See, when they try you and stuff, you ain't tough. Now, why am I sad? In 2017, I met a 29-year-old girl. And how I met her was Gail Chaney decided to run for mayor, and they had a spot. And I went to Rockmont. I said, who's going to take a place? And he said, a LaMonica. I said, who's that? Who's that? So I called them back. I said, who's LaMonica? He said, I said, how you spell? He said, Ali, LaMonica. So I looked her resume up, and I'm like, oh, this girl's impressive. So what happened, a couple of days later, she called me and said, I need you. They say I need you to support. And when I first met her, I asked her a question. The question I asked her, I said, you working for Montclair Human Resources, right? I said, what you making about 140? She said, right. I said, you can't work that job and be the council person of the Central Ward because the Central Ward has so many factors. Economic, poor, senior citizen. And she said, I'm going to leave that job. I said, you're going to leave $140,000 of your job? She said, yeah, I'm going to try to get a part-time job. And what happened, I seen a 28 become a councilwoman, become a council president, and become a congressman. And when I went to HUD and the federal criminal authorities came in, the first person I ran to talk to was her. And I talked to her, and I said, you got to be very, I begged her. I begged her, you got to be very, very careful. Please be careful. Please don't get hung up in political loyalty. When y'all all came in, I wrote you a letter about political loyalty. And now somebody told me, they said, I believe she wasn't ready. And I used to say, yes, she was. Maybe she wasn't. But see, everybody, Pat, I want to see you out there with the horn when she go to court. Blah, blah, blah, blah. I want to see you out there laughing in your red bow tie. I want to see you out there making all kinds of prayers because the woman is charged criminal. And in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, they convicted Sharp James. They convicted, because he didn't say he had a girlfriend. They convicted Gibson. They convicted Ralph Rand. They convicted Miner. They convicted Gary Grant. They convict you in Newark federal court. This ain't no joke. And the girl is holding a bag. My 28-year-old little girl is holding a bag over some arrogant, over some political poi that went bad. It went bad. So you could do all this publicity you want. I'm with her. I'm with her. And if she get convicted, you know who going to be standing out there waiting on her? Her son. I mean, her daughter and her husband. Because you know what people do? Life goes on, pastor. Just like when you bury somebody. And then a week later, you go on life. My little 29-year-old kid got criminal charges against us.

Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Felicia Austin Singleton. Appearing. Good evening. I want to give Aleef Mohamed this piece of tissue to dry those tears because I told y'all she was not ready for Congress. Matter of fact, I told her myself. Good evening, Felicia Austin Singleton. Let's be clear. I am not anyone's puppet, unlike some of you. At the end of the day, I speak for the residents who call and ask me for help. And all of you know that because I emailed you before I come to the mic with any of my situations. I am not instructed. I am not scripted. And I speak for the residents. At the end of the day, one thing is certain and two things for sure is that you need to thank Gail Cheney Field Jenkins. You want to say she sends me up here? You need to thank her. That's one thing. Because I would have came and decapitated y'all with the truth plenty of times over and over again. But yet, I still extend the olive branch to work with you for the betterment of the residents. I am no puppet. I don't get paid and I stand here to fight for the residents of the city of North. Dear residents, we have seen the mayor of Baraka and congresswoman in the headlines making charges while some were dropped, others still stand. And we asked him, why aren't you standing up for the residents of the city of North? Everyone has a human right. But I ask you, can we get the same energy that you gave the residents down at the lady hall for the residents of the city of North who are living in deplorable conditions? We have families, children living with no heat, mold, hot water, and fire hazards. These are not conveniences. These are life-threatening conditions while developers are getting tax abatements, subsidy. Miss Doc, please you're disrupting. Miss Doc. Miss Doc. Can you stop my time? Can you stop my time? Please proceed. Okay, all the city support for the conditions while the residents in the city of North were being ignored. Developers were getting away with murder, just like Ellen M, who let people live in deplorable conditions while you tried to scuffle it with a fake receivership. But yet and still, she was the councilwoman where they are about to build a city next to the museum, so you rewarded them. What about the residents at the Riviera where Daniel Spiegel and Kabari, Kabwari Tucker had thrown people out. Yet I was thrown out, Gonzalez, for telling you to go to Victor and get the vouchers. And you want me to feel sorry for some people. No, I'm not. Meanwhile, the mayor is focused on taking care of immigrant, undocumented criminal immigrants that they have stormed the building. Well, I'm going to ask you, Mayor, put on them tennis shoes and come storm these buildings with the toxic conditions for the residents of the city of North who voted you in. And if we did not vote you in, then you still have an obligation when you took the seat. We are not saying we do not care for protection of human rights, but our leadership never showed up for us. The residents deserve clean, safe, decent, well-dignified housing, depending on the accountability we hold you. But you want to hold press conference and photo offerings. Mayor Rajay Barak and Veronica, I ask you to storm the buildings of these slum laws. Come sit with your people as we voted for you. How dare you? We have never in these council chambers, never bucked up against police, never body slammed ourselves into police. We asked to be heard. Our first amendment rights. You violated a federal law. You want to know the reason why Raj got dropped? Because he was charged under state law. The federal law did not have defiant trespassing. I urge you to read. I like it. I love it. But what you will not do is to fame the residents that come and advocate, which you should be doing, which little Monica should be doing for the residents of the city of North. And I yield my time for Mayor Sharp James. Can we all have a moment of silence? Now, again, I will extend the olive branch to any council person or anybody in this administration who would like to help and walk with me through the city of North to make people lives. I know for myself, I went through it. I had no voice. I had to advocate for myself. So I stand here for the residents of the city of North. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Lisa Parker. Lisa Parker. I am saddened today for the loss of two political icons, Sharp James and Catherine Willis. These two gave their lives to public service and being stewards of the people and their communities. Someone sent this video to me. Sharp appreciated the activists and the advocates because we held the elected accountable. As Sharp mentioned in the video, when you're elected, are not accountable to the concerns of the people, vote them out. Good day, criminal cult that's running our government. Now that Sharp has been laid to rest today, Quintana put forth a motion a while ago to have a statue of Sharp on City Hall. And today I am demanding that you remove George Floyd and put Sharp James, the longest serving mayor of this city. Sharp James, he ran good government. He didn't sell the city and his people out. Sharp respected unions and their contracts for a living wage and health benefits. Our streets were clean. Crime was down. The city's budget was in a surplus, not in debt or deficit. He built bridges, partnerships, and cared for the residents. Sharp loved Newark. so my last book is called A Sharp View. A Sharp View. And it tells the hypocrisy of all you elected that a morning the loss of Sharp who made a way for you to be in those seats. Patrick Council, Roundtree, Crump, Baraka. Where was your reverence for him when he wanted to run for office and you denied him? Sharp didn't militarize public forums, ban or remove activists. Crump, you had the audacity to remove and ban Nadira Brown from this podium, a woman who came here for two solid years for help for being evicted from her house. Council, Roundtree, Crump, she was living in your, in a south ward. You did nothing. Shame on you. You should not even be in those seats. Mgaiva, Baraka, elect a clown, expect a circus. The same lawlessness you exercised against the advocates and residents. You are now paying the price for the deeds you thought you got away with. Newarkers, we deserve better. Sharp would never have had a failing school or a Roger Leon and disgrace because he always promoted excellence. How dare you? Sharp built Newark. He did not, he did more than that. Sharp built hope and not gentrification. Please join me in supporting Gail Cheney Field Jenkins, not the imposters that's tied in with Razjay Baraka. You get these mailers, Amina Bay, you don't deserve to be central ward. Razjay Baraka, you don't deserve to be governor nor mayor. You have corrupted the city, you have stole the soul from Newark. You don't deserve the seat that you hold now. Instead of campaigning, take care of the city with the term you have left. Teddy's mail is up when you

get them. Vote them out. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Elijah Morgano. Appearing. Mitakoye Oyasin, Mitakoye Oyasin. That's Lakota for we are all relatives. So I don't have my staff, right? Because someone was threatened by my staff. One, it's a spiritual tool. Two, I got a plate and 13 screws in my ankle so I walk with a limp. So in that, right, I've been observing y'all for the past two years. And one thing I do know, y'all love money. APAC. From Cory Booker to Razjay Baraka, right? So I'm going to show y'all where most of that money come from. The Ashkenazi, Ashkenazi Jew-ish, not Jew, like the Ethiopian Jew, it's Jew-ish, so it's kind of Jew. From Europe, right? Those are the immigrants. Those are the immigrants and those who Raz is protecting, I'm going to show them one of y'all, one of their ceremonies, right? They come to a wall and hump the wall and hump the wall. And while they're wailing, and while they're humping the wall, they are having sex with a demon. So shout out to Sophia. Listen, I'm a spiritual, I'm a spiritual warrior, right? And I don't just talk. I don't just talk to hear myself, even though I sound amazing and I look phenomenal. But I'm sharing with y'all that this is about to be a hell storm with Rosa Parks and Drake. That's what Raz did. He did a Rosa Parks and a Drake rollout. But I'm K-Dot and I'm the biggest hater. I hate the way he talk. I hate the way he look. I hate the way he walk. Why do I hate the way he look, talk and walk? Because he don't care what all of the public, the nationwide publicity is doing to the city. Right after he got locked up, there was a murder in the Southport. Like all these tie in together. And y'all taking money from the devil. Golden Dawn, that's the devil. Sophia, that's the devil. So I pull out these libations and I'm going to call in some real dope devilish spirits, right? Maya Lansky, Ase. Lucky Luciano, Ase. Who else we want to talk to? Oh, I got you. You thought you was getting out today. Robbery, Ase. Now we're going to speak about robbery. Those are all immigrants. They are all immigrants to this land, Lenape land. This is my land. And I'm treated like a secondhand citizen in my land. So I drink y'all souls, right? I drink y'all souls, right? So robbery for people that don't know, they stole this land for $750 and some guns and sugar. $750, guns and sugar. And they called themselves the Puritans. They were occultists, pedophilic, rapists. That's what NORC was built on. So when in the army, right? They say ship or sugar honey iced tea since you don't want me to curse crump. Most of what y'all doing up here is curses. Y'all doing bad business. Y'all know better than Diddy. Clive Davis. Y'all know better. But we coming here, whoever felt, whoever felt danger because of my staff, may your dreams suck. May you have nightmares. Because as I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil. And money, power, status, and pleasure don't tip me. Yo, and this is the last thing Ross Baraka owed the Aboriginal people of this land an apology because he called this immigrants. The definition of an immigrant is someone who leaves their land and go to another one. We've been here. He did it at the state of the union and then he did it at the state of the people. So you got an incompetent leader giving y'all leadership talking about hold the line. That's a military term. He's not a veteran. Hold the line. Now, the Monica MacGyver holding that line. When I say ship rolls downhill and y'all seen color purple, right? Y'all seen color purple, right? At the end of color purple, until you do right by our people, everything you

touch will fall on sand. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Eva Salters. Appearing. Yeah, Eva Salters. If you plan to enter the U.S. illegally, your chances of getting caught and sent back just went up. The actions I'm taking are not only lawful, they're the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every single Democratic president for the past half century. What I'd like to do, don't worry about it guys. Okay, let me go. You guys don't need to go. Let me finish. No, no, no. You can stay there. Let me suspect the passion of these young people because they feel deeply about the concerns for their families. Now, what you need to know when I'm speaking as president of the United States, come to this community to solve all these problems without passing. We're also a nation of law. The facility in New Jersey has been used since 2000 for different detainees, federal detainees who were also in here. It was enclosed for a few years and then it was reopened. I don't remember any of these people showing up to protest the detainment of people or to talk about whether or not it was a safe facility under the Biden administration or under previous administrations. So what is it they're so incensed about now? They have gotten addicted to protests. They've gotten addicted to trauma. We all know that discussions like this that are so incredibly heated require adults who are going to employ some moderation. But Monica McIver knows that her name is not going to be mentioned anywhere if she sits down and has a conversation with Kristi Noem or Tom Homan in her office. And you look at this and the body cam footage and there was a lot of video evidence here, it's very inconvenient for her because she is clearly not deescalating the situation. Okay, so I played that because people are going to ask me why did you play that? Because I'm tired of having these conversations every day. So and it's not about her being a black woman and I'm a black woman and why am I not standing? So here's the thing. This is the same individual who sat in that chair and militarized our police, banned us, kicked us out because she didn't like what we were saying. So that same unhinged behavior that you saw was what she was doing in that chair. She just didn't have a chance to get physical with it. But banned us because we were threatening her but she literally threatened the agents and elbowed and body them. Right? Okay. So and I'm doing this because the diehard Democrats of which I was one, you know, they will get you caught up in a vortex. Oh, he's still Trump is doing this. It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome. Trump has nothing to do with Barack getting arrested. Barack has to do with Barack getting arrested. And it had nothing to do with her job because her job was already done. This happened after they came out of the detention center. And I do this because we have to wake up and stop getting caught up in the rhetoric. I don't care about your truth or my truth. What is the truth? Because the truth stands alone. Look at the details. When Barack Obama who deported more illegals than anybody said what he said, no one was storming and protesting. Why is that? Because he was a Democrat. But if you look at everything, the Democrats are unhinged right now because their dirt is being revealed. It's okay as long as they can do what they're doing. They give us a dream and give us a dollar while they're getting millions. Because how do you make $170,000 a year and then you're worth $6 million, $9 million, $15 million, $18 million? What's happening? Emergency money comes into the city. Special money comes into the city. In any town it serves as the mayor's personal checkbook. It doesn't go before finance. It doesn't go before the council until he's done with what he's doing. So I'm saying to you all wake up please and do your homework. If you talk to a Republican of which we are a constitutional republic, black folk are the original Republicans. Do your history. But like everything else, it gets whitewashed. But when we have those who do not look like us who understand and they say if the Democratic Party was on point, I'd be a Democrat. But right now they're unhinged because they've been selling us lies. It's all coming out and we're making a different choice.

Present. So for the record, my name is Sarah Crispin, the implied surety and the beneficiary of the legal fiction, all caps name, S-A-R-A-C-R-I-S-P-I-N, and its credentials. I would like to take this moment to, hi sweetheart, to unveil the ways in which that these politicians and corporate entities have been able to magic and hoodwink us into thinking that we're public citizens as opposed to we the people who are meant to move public servants, which you elect to and sign under the Constitution, which was stolen from the Iroquois Declaration of Peace. This is something that you as your fiduciary responsibility are meant to be moved by us. You are meant to do what it is that the people and like you said, the original Republic, the people are supposed to be moved. So I would just like to provide a little bit of education and also utilize myself and my awareness as a private American national to be able to utilize my offering to move things as necessary. So first of all, we call upon this council, let us remember the Constitution is not a corporate slogan, it's actually a trust document. So according to the principles of equity jurisprudence as laid out by John Norton-Palmore, anybody paying attention, I'm giving you jewels to be able to study. Um, if equity is the conscience of the law, this started in around 1200 something in England, this is English common law all transpired towards here. When rigid rules create harm, equity steps into restore justice. According to George Bogart's law on trust trustees, like all public officials, all public officials are trustees to we the people. Um, you act solely, solely for the benefit of the beneficiaries, we the people, not for corporate gain, not for departmental convenience, but in honor of the sacred trust. Now I delivered a packet of my affidavits to you, Lawrence Crump, you, Miss Louise Scott-Rountree and you Patrick Council. I gave you a packet of my equitable subrogation and also a listing out of details about how I would like to move your works to be able to assist and support the city. Um, many do not realize that legal fictions have been used to separate us from our birthright. In Hale versus United States and United States versus Cruyshank, we see the roots of this tension between natural liberty and corporate control. The so-called straw man is not a conspiracy, it's actually a distortion. It's a legal fiction created without full disclosure. Um, so in regards to that, um, you know, today I'm, I'm standing because not only is this a, it's not just a, we're not just communicating based on, oh, we're in this government and oh, like all these corporations, I'm standing in my spiritual capacity communicating that I'm a living, breathing, sovereign entity that is native to Pangea and the cosmos. I come in, in presence and sacred responsibility and I'm utilizing my corporate fiction, Sarah Crispin, all caps, um, to do business with you now because I remember that this is actually a business space. This, this has been magic to tell people that, oh, this is a hearing of the sentence. No, this is doing business. That's why there have been people who come here and try to do business with y'all and you do business deals and you do business deals. And that's just, that's the way that this system is. So now we're aware. So now we see, so our vehicle was unlawfully detained or our vehicle was unlawfully taken from us. And I'm sure you read in the, I hope you read in the packets that I delivered to you yesterday. Um, but our C, our vehicle, not only was it just our transportation, but it was a spiritual vessel. So specifically I'm addressing you round tree as a faith-based leader. I would like to be able to get our vehicle back because not only was it our spiritual transport, it was our home. Um, and as well as, um, in all, in all of this, you know, all of these funds being directed towards policing towards, um, from fines and forfeitures and surplus budgets, you know, the initiatives that the people of Newark have been asking for, they just haven't been educated about moving in a private capacity because it's been intentionally hidden from the people. So I'm unveiling that and, um, in regards to moving assets towards the appropriate places, not only should it be given to how the Newark residents have been communicating it as such, but also I am speaking on behalf of, I am an immigrant to these lands, but these initiatives should be moved towards native land back restoration circles and empowerment of our

youth. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Emily Aikens. Uh, appearing. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Um, the mayor was asked about budgeting the state, um, budget, and I wanted to know when are we going to get our budget. And I keep asking that question because it's never on time and you guys really don't give us a reasonable excuse as to why it's late. It just seems like people aren't doing the job that they've been hired to do. And it's a problem. So at the pre-meeting, I was confused. Lake Street residents came here to talk about Lake Street and the speeding. And I know because I drive on Lake Street and it's nice. It says 25 miles per hour. There's like a little thing that shows you if you're speeding and the reality is people keep speeding and it's like a race car type of speeding. It's not 25, it's not 35, it's not even 55. They fucking like 85 and it hit me hard because if you have your kids in the back seat and you're trying to back out, most definitely you won't get hit. But what really confused me, I'm trying to understand, Gonzalez, how you live on that block. And it's the residents that had to come here but you yourself didn't advocate for safer street. And in my opinion, this is very, very simple. You need a cop present, period, because it's not safe and you all know this. But they've been dealing with this for years. And I think you owe us an explanation as to why you never said anything. If you live on that block. That is really weird to me. Now with that being said, maybe the solution is to make that a one way. That way people can get out of their driveways and they can go one direction and not have to worry about the ding-dongs that come back and forth speeding like they don't lost their minds. Just like when I brought up First Street. Told you all about that off of 280. That's still a hot mess. I don't know what y'all plan on doing about it unless you want somebody to get hit. Because I thought safety was important. You have people who enter our city that don't care. And this is probably the problem. You have people who come here, they don't care about our city. They don't care about our people. So they'll just do whatever they want to because they feel like, oh, it's not whatever. Because they don't care. And who suffers? Our people. So what are we going to start making people care? You have to put the presence out there to say we're not playing with you. And you don't need a regular cop in uniform. I need someone in plain clothes. I don't want them to know that the cop is out there. I want them to be surprised. People are not getting tickets. They're still driving. They need to be caught. And many of them that are driving reckless probably should not be driving. But here's the thing. Just like Lake Street, just like First, we had the Kibb School. We have so many children. We have a lot of elderly. We have a lot of handicapped people. Does anybody care about their safety? Does anybody care about the walking across the street trying to get either to school or to go back home? There are so many children at risk. There are so many seniors at risk. And there are so many people with disabilities at risk. You guys are legislators. So what are you doing about it? Or are you going to wait until the election season before you lay out some plan to let us know, oh, I got it covered? Sir, you live on the block. Can you please explain? Because that is confusing. Your residents should never have to come up here. If I lived on the same block, as Ramos, and you need to tell me we've been having issues, and Ramos don't say nothing since. I should have like a package with him, like, yo, hey, what's going on? Miss Aikens, I got you. And then it's handled. Y'all got to do better. Our kids, our seniors, those with disabilities, somebody's going to get hurt. And then what are you going to do? Have a ceremony,

Good evening. My name is Miriam Bay. I'm an investor in Newark. I live in Newark. And I also work for Newark. And I'm very concerned about what's happening here in the city of Newark. The first thing I'm going to do, last night, Councilman Kelly, our community had a meeting on Underwood. Okay? And here are the issues that we have. And I have this to give to you. Two weeks prior, a three-year-old child fell into a brook at the end of Underwood Street. The incident prompted responses from both police and fire departments. At 57 Underwood Street, residents have reported maintenance issues on the property. At 87 Underwood Street, construction materials are scattered throughout the premises. At 58 Underwood Street, tenants have reported mold, infestation, rodents and pest problems, and basement flooding. There is also ongoing concerns regarding property cleanup of overflowing garbage on premises owned by the slumlords. Okay? The other issue is that I'm concerned about why are we giving tax abatements to these slumlords, especially when we know what they are doing. Okay? Why do we continue? They do not respect our residents. For them, it's not about the quality of life. It's about the money. Okay? And as I mentioned in the past, with brothers and sisters who have been in prison and they're coming home to these shelters, if they complain about the condition of the shelters, they are threatened by being sent back to prison. Okay? So why are we, why do we have these shelters that are not helping these brothers and sisters? And when I say brothers and sisters, I mean black, white, Latino. Okay? Everybody is included. They're New York residents. Okay? So why are we constantly paying these people to live in these shelters and they don't have any programs? And the programs that they have, the ones who are doing it, they don't know what they're doing. They've been hired by friends, you know, girlfriends and things like that who are not qualified. Okay? And so the other issue that I have is I'm a member of the affirmative action committee. I've gone to two. The first meeting I attended, there were no vendors. Okay? The second meeting I attended, there were a vendor, but not representatives from the developers regarding jobs. This is the thing that I want to say. I've had several titles working for the city of North, working where I work right now. Okay? And one of the titles that I have is vocational counselor. And there has been, people have been saying that we don't have qualified clients. Okay? And the reason why we have these people with all these licenses coming from all over the state is we don't have qualified clients. Let me tell you, I can tell you this for sure. At Newark Works, we have gotten many, many Newark residents qualified where they have certificates and HVAC and, you know, driving, okay, and maintenance. So now those developers that we have coming in here who are giving jobs to other people, we can definitely come and hire our qualified Newark residents. All right? These vendors, they are coming from all over. And if one of the key things that we need to have for them is the fact that to hire our residents. And the last thing I want to say to Councilman Ramos is not here. Okay? So there's an issue with a brother who was unlawfully arrested. And I want to give this to the BA so he can give it to Councilman Ramos. Here's the other concern that I have. I go throughout Livingston, South Orange, West Orange, Maplewood. Why don't they have slumlords? I'm trying to understand. Is it just here in the urban areas? What's going on? The people who work here for the City of Newark, a lot of them don't even live here. And they would not live like that. So why are we letting our children, our senior citizens, our families live like that? Why do our children have to look at stuff on the ground and think that this behavior is natural? It's not. It's not. And we have to really stop it. Because this is totally unacceptable. So my prayers are for the Mayor and for LaMonica. Because I don't wish any bad on anyone, regardless of what they've done. God got us.

Appearing. Ms. Dock, please. Please don't yell out. Good evening, George Tillman Jr. Good evening. Today was a very disturbing day that we had. And let me just start by saying that that invitation that went out to those seniors for that meeting that they had with the Tax Abatement Committee regarding the abatement process for that abatement that I sent you. First of all, the seniors asked you to come to 140 South Foreign Javon. It was so wrong for you to have them come down here in wheelchairs and on walkers and not facilitate away from them to get here. The reason why we wanted to have that community meeting there at 140 South Foreign Javon because the residents could have came downstairs and you could have talked to them the way you talk to the 10 that took their time to come out here in the rain. These seniors. So let me just say this because I have an 81 year old mother and I want you to close your eyes for a second to listen to some of the things that said to the mothers that was in that room today by a new community. I want you to imagine that this is your 81 year old mother because they told them that now that they can't sit in front of the building that they're going to give them tickets and that if they get a certain amount of tickets that they're going to be in jeopardy of getting evicted for sitting in front of the building for loitering. They gave them an option to sit on the back of the building where there's no coverage from the sun and told them they had to sit there in the sun that they couldn't sit in the front of the building. They have a park right across the street that they told them they can't use but they may can use it for two days a week and for a couple of hours. We talk this is your 81 year old mother like my mother and they told them that it was okay they can do that as long as they give them notice ahead of time. My 81 year old mother. So Rub-a-Rub-a-Rub round tree. Those weren't new issues. Those pool courts were issued six years ago. People have died because of those pool courts. They were given until June 30th to fix all the pool courts in all six of those buildings that should have been fixed addressed six years ago and people have died. They're supposed to be fixing the intercoms. They said to my 81 year old mother that they're not going to put cameras on every floor and in the Hallwells they got a security plan. They're going to have security rotating all the floors. People are getting robbed in the building. Getting robbed in the building but they can't get cameras on the floors to protect the seniors. Okay that tax abatement got a community benefit agreement that's coming up and the community is not even going to be involved because that's between administration and the developer. So I want to say as a part of that community agreement those cameras that they can't afford to put on each one of those floors and all six of those buildings should be a part of that community agreement. We're talking about our mothers, our fathers, our elders and the way they were treated in that room today was despicable. They should not have been able to come out here in that rain in their wheelchairs without you providing a way for them to get down here to meet with them to hear their complaints when you could have easily went there in your city vehicles to go see them. It's wrong. I didn't say didn't care. Certain things are morals. We have a moral obligation to our community and to our seniors and they can't be treated that way and if you can defer a tax abatement where people come in here and sit and defer that tax abatement to all those buildings are abated and you go up there and listen to all the concerns of the residents in new community not just the 10 that came down

in the rain. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Shakur Tillman. Shakur Tillman. Not a pair. Shakir Reddick. Good evening. Good evening. I'm here to speak for the community that I live in. I live in Pilgrim Baptist Village in North New Jersey. The office is on 149 and a half Avon Avenue. We're having issues with management. I want to speak out against ARCO management. I want to speak out against MS Group. I want to speak out. I'm sorry. I can't hear you. She's clapping. I want to speak out against ARCO management, MS Group, Denise Fisher. I've lived in this complex for 14 years. Denise Fisher has took over the management of the complex two years ago and in the two years that she has taken over, everyone in the complex is 8,000, 10,000, 16,000 behind in rent and it makes no sense. It makes no sense at all and it's like the money nobody knows where the money's going. People are being illegally evicted. She's taking the money, padlocking people out on her own, not sending the constable. It just it makes no sense and then the living status that we have. We are having human feces coming out of the garage through the pipelines. We have human feces in the backyard, toilet tissue, plumbing is bad. Oh last summer everyone had gnats coming out of the sinks. It just it just makes no sense and I've sent out letters to management. I've sent out letters to HUD housing. I've sent out letters to rent management, rent control in Newark and it's just nothing being done. It's like the community we live in, nobody wants to help us and it's like she's a tyrant. I went to I went to pay my rent in April. I went and because she's so bad, this Denise Fisher character, she's so bad I just dropped my rent in the drop box. As I'm dropping my rent in the drop box, she comes on and tells me, oh you're just the person I'm looking for. You owe you owe eight thousand dollars in back rent but my rent is only three hundred and twenty four dollars a month. How could I owe eight thousand dollars back rent? Oh you didn't you didn't re-certify, never got a letter to re-certify. Then I go to the office to re-certify after I sent letters out to HUD and HUD spoke to her and then they made her let me re-certify and while I'm in the office I have my phone recording and I'm sitting there doing my paperwork and she comes up and tells the the maintenance man, oh be on the lookout for a constable for 61A. I live in 61A. Why would the constable be coming to lock my apartment if I haven't seen the judge, I haven't received the court order? It just makes no sense. I mean you know I could go on and on but it's it's ridiculous and it's we have tenants that's being told they're going to be evicted because they have bed bugs in their house because just stupid reasons. It just it just makes no sense. I mean that's from my heart. I'm done. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. So much. Come on God is second. Come on God is second. Second. Come on God is second. Good evening, Newark residents. Good riddance, corrupt misleaders that's running our government. Let me just just tell you a little bit about when somebody take the oath of office. And I said it before was felony charge right? When you take your oath and you violate your oath of office is a felony charge. And when you violate the constitution is a felony charge. When you commit treason is a felony charge. When you abuse office is a felony charge. When you obstruct justice is a felony charge. When you violate the constitution and the laws is a felony charge. Y'all know that. Where the lawyers at in here? She did that the day she was in that seat up there. No because I'm here today to talk about a lot of issues that we should be concerned about. First let me say what happened at Delaney Hall wasn't about race, wasn't about gender, and it wasn't politically motivated. That was more of Trump derangement syndrome by the Democrats and their political operatives. People they call violent interrupters. Y'all violent interrupters? Where was that back then? You had the whole anti-violence corruption going on at that. Where was the violent interrupters at that? Some of them are paid by our tax dollars. People of Newark and America take off your social blinders as I'm going to continue to say and don't fall for the okie doke. Now you talked about the budget that was one of our issues. It's almost June 2025. Where's our city budget? We have a BA who makes almost $300,000 annually that's paid by our tax dollars. Where is our city budget? This is just unacceptable but he found time to go up there and protest. I'm going to ask the council people do the BA get paid to go at Delaney Hall or do he get paid to handle our budget? Which one do we get paid to do? Is he paid? Was he on unsalary that day that he's supposed to be doing our budget to go there and interfere with DHS and ICE at Delaney Hall or is he supposed to be here handling our budget? That is just an automatic dismissal, an automatic removal from our administration and a lot of other people was there paid to do a job but they up there protesting about people who was trying to make our community safe and America safe. Securing our borders and our community and he had the audacity to be up there on taxpayer dollars to be protesting when he's supposed to have a budget done before June 2025. That makes sense. A administration and their political operatives are out of control. Where was for the illegal conversions? Where's the outrage for the illegal inspections? Where's the outrage for the work sites that's going on illegally? Where's the outrage for the slumlords? Where's the outrage for the eviction tsunami that's going on? Where's the outrage for the homelessness that's going on? And Baras Baraka you had the audacity to talk about the governor needs to call a state of emergency on housing. Well where's your state of emergency on housing, crime and everything else that's going on in this city with your fudge reports? Where's ACLU in here and free speech? Why did your individuals come here when I go to the district court to videotape? You got your paid political operatives come and surrounding me. But this is a violent interrupters right? That's what y'all call y'all self. You are a disgrace, failed leadership. No other way to describe you and get them out of here. Vote them out. Vote them out. Vote them out. Next speaker. Arnella Lee. Yes, Arnella Lee I want to play something. Before I explain it, before I play it, this is my nephew Eric. The song is called Animal. You see the shapes around him not an animal. That's my sister Elaine's son that was murdered. In 2014, me, Sharp, James and all of us ran the Southport headquarters. So I'm in it, my sister in it, the family and Ras voice. That was way before Beyonce. 14 years ago. Listen to this. Family in my city that give you no right to judge me. It's just ugly in my city. Every day somebody dying. Every day somebody crying. Crying out for help. They momming that don't pay no mind to them. Teachers ain't teaching. So they drop out for no reason. No belief that they can make it. So they follow who will lead them. Man it's time to practice. I can drop that gun, pick up a pipe. Be what you want to be. If you just use your brain like I do. They only want to judge you. They ain't being understandable. Being born in no New Jersey don't make you an animal. You can lock me away. Because you locked me away when you passed me along knowing I couldn't read a thing. The state came along and didn't do a thing. For no child 18 years later. I want to give a moment of silence for Dorothy Jean, Ramsey Gappy and Eckert Wells. Along with Herman Mustafa Johnson and Sharp James. Okay these three died from my building. One service was March the 15th. One was May the 9th and one was April the 28th. It is not normal Pat when you said emotional remorse. The last time I of course I'm emotional remorse. Anybody that isn't emotional remorse is unhuman. It is un-American to keep letting these seniors die. You all are aware of it. Y'all talk about nine bodies down there at Delaney. It's well over 100. Keisha Danes deleted the list. I went through every organization, every department. That is not normal. As a pastor I'm surprised you're not emotional. The south ward is over there looking like Nightmare on Elm Street. Ambassadors should be closed down. Still abandoned open windows. And I told y'all rats in the basement that's the only thing that's there. That is not normal that you all are doing wellness checks but you're not doing the wellness checks on the seniors. It's not just my building. That is not normal. That is un-American. Rats. That is un-American. That is un-human for you all to allow that. So I got a little help now. This is un-humane Pat Council.

Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Jamar Youngblood. Good evening. Good evening. My name is Jamar Youngblood and I'm here tonight to introduce two books I've been reading. They both are called The Black Tax. One was written by a black banker the other by a white historian. I mention their race because studies show people often taking information differently depending on who is saying it. Unfortunately race still plays a role in how information is received and trusted even when the data is the same. So Andrew Carl, the white historian, study how black communities were overtaxed and stripped of land for generations. Sean Rochester, the black banker, explains how black families pay more than other families for housing credit and everyday goods because of bias in our economic system. I suggest you all read these books because they both play or they both make alarming claims about property taxes. They show that black homeowners both in the past and today often have their property over assessed in an attempt to displace us from our neighborhoods. And after doing some research by speaking to black property owners in our city, it seems this type of injustice is happening here in Newark as well. Over the past five years, Newark property taxes have steadily increased and so have our water bills. During this time period property taxes in Newark have increased by close to 15 percent and water rates increased by over 25 percent. And at the same time developers continue to receive tax breaks to build projects that most long-term residents can't afford or benefit from. So we need to be honest about who the city is really being built for and who's paying for this new growth because it doesn't seem like it's being built for the native residents. The same residents who have lived here for decades are now paying the price for growth they have not benefited from. So both of these books describe how our economic systems drain wealth from black families. And if we're not careful, Newark will follow the same path as Brooklyn and Atlanta where native residents now live three hours away from the neighborhoods they helped build. These books show that rising taxes aren't just a financial issue. They are also used as a strategy to push black people out of neighborhoods that others want. Especially when elected officials are not transparent about how they are spending the tax and school board money. We have to admit that black and brown people are still being underserved and over exploited and it's hard to blame white supremacy alone when our black leadership continues to unknowingly follow a playbook designed to keep black and brown residents at the bottom. And it saddens me to hear Newarkers say this is just how our government works as if the policies we live under aren't a choice. The answer to our problem should be simple. Vote in new elected officials who will create policies that protect us from our unchecked economic system. But voter turnout is so low it makes me wonder if us millennial and Gen Z residents really care about our future here in North. I just want to remind everyone that neoliberalism is real if we're seeing it in full effect when outsiders come into our city and privatize our hospitals, our schools, and even try to privatize our water. So now that you are aware of the concept of the black tax, here are three steps we can take right now. First, we should suspend any further tax hikes in black neighborhoods until we have a fair and transparent property reevaluation process. Second, evaluate how the tax abatements given to developers shift the tax burden onto residents. And lastly, start to experiment on legislation that allows us to keep money circulating in our black communities. Because the biggest misconception people have of our city is that black residents are looking for charity and handouts when the truth is we're only looking for justice and the government that is willing to protect us from our unchecked economic system. So if we do not address this now, we are choosing to become a city that builds for outsiders while pushing our own people out through higher taxes, especially when there's no transparency about how the tax money is being spent. And to the black and brown residents of our city, I want to leave you with a quote from Sun Tzu in his book, The Art of War. If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. So again, to our young black and brown residents, there are outside forces that don't want us to say in the city that our elders built. And to our seniors, you know we are in a fight because you've lived through it throughout your entire life in this country. You've seen how these patterns play out and you know what's happening. So why do we keep supporting candidates who have no plan? Thank you. I'm done. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. G. Curitin. Ms. Curitin is a pair. Yes, G. Curitin, West Ward District 13 leader and Georgia King Village resident. News flash, news flash. Fraud with assistant programs, HUD says, charging more than allowed for rent and housing services can also be a form of fraud. Attempting to bribe officials to gain preferential treatment is a violation. Misrepresenting income to receive higher benefit is a form of fraud. It is illegal landlords to release any information about tenants or prospective tenants to other residents or third parties without consent. Harassment, withholding amenities, ignoring your request for maintenance, increasing your rent or evicting you without proper notice is a fraud. A landlord breach of contract failure to provide essential repairs or maintain habitual living environment is fraud. L&M terminate joint management contractors immediately. Mayor Ros Veracca, Georgia King Village wants a protest and rally too because L&M have breached their tax abatement contract and we want receivership as well. In times like these, let's take a silent moment of prayer for Newark residents, our advocates who are really daily in the trenches for Newarkers, the godly warriors in this room and everyone that comes to this podium. Those that are watching on YouTube and other rooms, let's bow our heads and have a silent moment of prayer, second of prayer. Yes, yes. Newark, Newark, what are we doing? Elected officials, special interest groups, cults, fans, followers and ICE, what are we doing? What happened to the peaceful nonviolent rallies and protests of the 60s and 70s? This recent fiasco at Delaney Hall was embarrassing and it was horrific, a horrific negative presentation of the discord in our great city and government. It was shameful, hideous, a monoxious, despicable profanity that was fighting and punching and pushing and shoving and rage and belly rolls as the camera kept recording. The message, the mission was dimmed as cameras were broadcasting the disturbing scene of our people and ICE and the mission was dimmed. For the record, we are not like, they are not like us and we are not like them. Newark and ICE making headlines again. While Newark is in dire straits of disastrous poverty, transitional gentrification, social, educational, economic and health disparities, low income housing deficits, slumlords and money grabbers, and some of our children can't read but they can vote. What are we doing, Newarkers? Protesting is the right, in the right way for illegal immigrants, it's pl- applaudable. But what about protesting for Georgia King Village? In 2023, L&M developers denied code enforcement to conduct a complete oversight inspection at Georgia King Village. They asked Kenyatta, asked Kenyatta about that. Over 10 years, Georgia King Village residents have had thousands of partial oversight inspections and code enforcement violations under the ownership of slumlord L&M and their slum managers, C&C and Joy. Inoperable elevators, pipes, electrical system, boiler, sewers and non-compliant emergency evacuation plan for the towers 200 and 250, 200 building 250. And yes, we still have rats and human waste coming up from drains and floodings. Councilman Kelly, due process did not work for Georgia King Village. L&M, city lawyers and the judges were not favorable for Georgia King Village residents. We want, we need a rally. We want a rally. Thank you for your comments. We deserve one.

Next speaker. Mary Rouse. My name is Mary Rouse. First of all, I'm a Newark resident for over 20 years. I'm a GKV, Georgia King Village resident, fortunately, unfortunately for 10 years. And what I need the council at large and everybody to understand is never mind, I don't say never mind as in no respect, but there's more than just rats going on. There's more than just roaches. There's more than just code violations. There's criminals that are on their payroll. There are gang members that they are paying through whatever payroll they got going on that intimidate the children on the property and tell them that if they don't sell their drugs, they're going to kick their family out. My son on April 9th was robbed, hitting the head with a gun, the butt of the gun. It was cocked back in building 200 in the hallway where there is no camera. They lifted him up. They stomped him. They took his shoes off, took his phones. If God didn't give him the wisdom and knowledge to tell them what he told them, he wouldn't have walked out that hallway. He said, follow me. I'll pay you back for my own phones. He got to my house. They were in the back of my apartment, my townhouse, and my son called me and I was out of college. I'm a 43 year old mom of 13 in college with everybody in my home, five grand babies. I mind my business. I don't care. I live there by no choice. I live there because there's no other place for me to go with my family. My Section 8, when I had it, I asked Ms. Keisha, who is the former manager, can I use it there because I'm running out of time and she said no, so I'm stuck there. But I'm grateful to God for where I'm at because I kept the promise to him that I'm going to keep my home and I'm going to keep my family and I worked hard for my 13 children. My son, my same son, the next day he went to the store, he was jumped by the same two boys. Talking about you talking about calling the cops and the S-H-I-T, we don't rat and all this other stuff. A couple weeks later he's getting out of an Uber at the back of my townhouse. All you have to do is walk up some stairs and my door is right there. They got him again. Tell about, oh you calling the cops, we're going to get you. No, I called the cops. Mom called the cops because mom knows what's right from wrong and I'm upset and I'm hurt because I already raised my kids to stay in the house because we knew what Georgia King was about. Intimidation, harassment and bullying. I mind my business, I come and go, but my son he can't even go to school. He went to Central High for his freshman year. People got word that he lived there and he was jumped in front of North Vocational because he lives in Georgia King Village. Mother's Day, my daughter is standing outside with her boyfriend, 18 year old in Parkland. Some young man that she knows by through a fellow acquaintance as his older brother walks past my daughter and says, next time don't do no cop s. Yeah, I'm talking to you. They keep intimidating my family. I don't walk in fear, I walk with the hand of God. I will fear no evil, but the evil that's in there needs to be removed. Whether the management knows or not, you know now and I need something done because there's nowhere else for me to go unless somebody up here wants to buy me a home. I'll go, I'll go willingly. Give me my section 8 back, somebody restore me something or just give me an answer. Let me know that I could put a bolt on my front door and I don't have to put pieces of wood in my garbage can up there to make sure nobody puts their hand through a mailbox and accesses my door. And if anything happens to me with an eviction or anything after this, it's intimidation from management. Because in management, they tell the residents that same gang member, drug dealer who's on the payroll, his mother is telling people where I live. The mother of one of the young boys, thank God she's a respectful mother, showed up to my door at 730 in the morning because she wanted to talk about what happened. And she said, they told me where you live. They said that Puerto Rican family is nothing but problems and they're getting ready to evict you. I said, one, I'm not Puerto Rican. But two, I'm not a problem because then let me ask you something. Before you knew where I lived from then, did you ever see me? You ever seen my kids? She knew my son because my son was associated with her son. But that was it. I mind my business. I got there by the grace of God. And I just want to keep a roof over my family and my family safe. I just love my kids. I just want

to raise them. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Carmen Figueroa. Carmen Figueroa. Not appearing. Ellie Kwamekewe. Appearing. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. My name is Ellie. And my name is Ellie and I'm in Georgia King Village. I was here the last time to give updates about my living situation, where they moved me to. Just whatever happened last year, I don't want to go into last year. But I think I've been moved into the worst situation than I was before. January 2, 2005. Toilet water in the whole basement. Things in the basement are on pallets. I had to put holes in and flush it with fresh water. February 23, that is less than two months. Another one. April 12, 2005. Another one. So within two months, I have one toilet water with fuses in my basement. Even though they come to clean it, it takes days. If it's a night, I'll sleep through it till the following day. If they are not able to get slumbers, it has to go to the third day. They are cleaning it, but health-wise, it's not right. I can't be living like that. I'm not living, I'm living the bad choice, but that's what I can afford. I need roof over my head to take care of my family. That doesn't mean I should live under this condition. This is, it's not all basements that are like that. So it shouldn't be an issue of just the whole place. I don't know who else is going through this, but they have not come up, but this is what I'm going through. And I will say I've been moved from rainwater into toilet water. This place is not rainwater. It's toilet water that comes out any time it clogs. This is a picture of one. Those are the toilets, the fuses in the water. It's not clean water. It smells very bad, awful smell. I don't think anyone can live in this. You can't, nobody, you can't even sleep living in this house. When you enter my living room now, you can't sit there. The whole place is smelling. They clean it, but the pallets, it's the whole basement. There's pallets sitting down. Do they clean under it? No. I have to stand on them to use holes myself to clean the place before they will use bleach and other things. I have to insist on it. If not, they will just bring mop and do it anyhow, but this is my health and my kids' health. So I make sure they use bleach, but it doesn't go to everywhere. Then the smell has stayed on till now. I don't know whether they move, moving in Georgia King from one townhouse to another is the best. No, no. I can't move out because I can't afford it. Unless they give me session eight, I'll move out of Georgia King. If not, they have to find the way forward. The best for Councilman Kelly. I've been here with this same issue. You know me, you know me. They have to show us the way forward. We want to know because this can be continuous in that we have to live in. It's not a one-time thing. It's not twice. So they have to find a way for us to live healthy. Thank you. Thank you for

your comments. Next speaker. Donna Jackson. Let's have some quiet so that we can hear Ms. Jackson speak. Oh Lord Jesus, help us, Father. Pray for me, Father, that I don't knock this podium over. Pray that I don't go over there to that door because y'all don't feel and hear nothing. Nothing. This charade y'all just went through down at that ICE dissension center. Y'all all going to hell with gasoline drawers on because that was the biggest SHT show in the world. ICE was at the jail for 11 years. You said nothing. Y'all depended rats for what? Did y'all forget about the Mount Vernon killer? And did you forget who killed them? Oh hello? 18 year old bad hand that just arrested and he shouldn't be locked. Did y'all forget about Moosa? Our youth in South Orange? Did y'all forget about the North child, 18 years old, that they found chopped up in South Orange reservation, killed by the same? What are you talking about? Rats, you are the worst. Nobody don't like you and we don't like y'all either. You stand it with wrong and then on the day after Monday y'all gonna send North PD down near the arrest of pastors. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Make it make sense. Federal property or city property? Yeah duh, duh, duh. Y'all see this? The whole hood know. The whole hood. The working hood, the hood hood, and the hood hood hood. We all know that was a sham. We saw a clear through it. You thought people wasn't vote for you before? You did that performance because you lowing the polls? You lower now negro. Step off and step out because we don't want you. We don't want you. Every slumlord in this city, we allowed them to get away with murder because they dipping into the campaign. Stop it. Georgia King Village, y'all better wake up. Stop coming to this mic. Stop coming to this mic. I don't know who will advising y'all and I love my G. Stop it. The city of North had GKB in court and they dropped the case. So stop coming to people that don't care. Stop it. Guess what's going on at Garden Spires? They under state control because the city didn't do nothing. Your code enforcement people ain't certified so they can't write nothing. What you keep calling them for? Of course they wrote up 800 violations. They can't divorce nothing. Let's look at DPW. 250 employees, private personal information sent out over email and y'all didn't do nothing. The lady still working there. Why? Social security numbers, dates of birth. Are y'all serious? That's a breach of contract and the lady still working? Who she? Razz, I need a job. I need a job. Sick of it. Sick of it. Sick of it. And it's known as the Razz dance now. Let me do it again. I need a job. I don't care who y'all bring to this mic talking about can't we get along. Hell no. Absolutely. Stop saying it because I don't know what North you live in. Y'all keep reporting on North Delaware. This is North New Jersey. Everything y'all say is a lie. Everything. Everything. This sham. Razz ain't do nothing right. I dare y'all to go in that Essex County jail. Every time it rain it's three feet of water in there on our family members. When you going in there? You ain't. The preloaders because that's what they are. Preloaders. They don't even go in there. These people out here suffering and y'all acting like did you want how much money? This Negro want what? Emergency appropriation of a 64 million dollars for July. What is wrong with y'all? Let this man do this. No city services. Street sweepers. They need to learn how to sweep. Stop riding down the block 30 miles an hour. Slow down. Pick up some dirt. Get some water in them street sweepers. Train people properly. Stop putting people on the back of these trucks. I don't want to see one more garbage truck with less than three guys on the back. Y'all allowing that? Nobody don't care about the union because they liars, hypocrites. North people, 2026 is approaching. It's time to clean all these seats. Local, county, state, and federal level. And LaMonica, you should be ashamed of yourself. You was laying all over Razz like that was your man. You wasn't defending your mayor. That looks so bad. I'm ashamed of you. Shut up, Larry. I'm ashamed of you, LaMonica. Next speaker. Thank you, Ms. Jackson. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Next speaker. Opal R. Wright. Ms. Wright is appearing. Let's get some quiet so we can hear

Ms. Wright, please. Yes. Good evening. My name is Opal R. Wright. I reside at Dandy School Street in Newark, New Jersey. Good evening to you. I'm concerned with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform and Consumer Protection Act. I would like to begin with Title X, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, sub-title H, Conforming Amendments. I would like to begin with the amendment concerning Section 1092, Amendment to the Federal Trade Commission Act. Section 18F of the Federal Trade Commission Act is amended by striking the subsection heading and inserting the following. This is under the Federal Trade Commission Act. Are available to the Federal Trade Commission to enforce compliance by any person with this title, in respect to whether that person is engaged in commerce or meets any other judicial test under the Federal Trade Commission Act, including the power to enforce the provisions of this act. In the same manner as if the violation had been a violation of the Federal Trade Commission Trade Regulation Rule, and in subsection B, by striking compliance and inserting subject to sub-title B of the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010, compliance by striking paragraph one and two and inserting the following. One, Section 8 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act by the appropriate federal banking agency as defined in Section 3Q of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act with respect to A, your national banks, federal savings associations, and federal branches, and federal agencies of foreign banks, the member banks of the Federal Reserve System other than national banks, branches and agencies of the foreign banks other than federal branches, federal agencies and insured state branches of foreign banks, commercial lending companies owned or controlled by foreign banks and organizations operating under Section 25 and 25A of the Federal Reserve Bank of the Federal Reserve Act, and banks and state savings associations insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation other than members of the Federal Reserve System and insured state branches of foreign banks by re-designating paragraph three through six as paragraphs two through five respectively, in paragraph four as so re-designated by striking and at the end in paragraph five as so re-designated by striking the period at the end and inserting and by inserting before the designated matter at the end of the following. Thank you. Thank you. I'd like to urge everyone to please pay attention please to our Council on the sorrows and regrets. Thank you. Thank you. Ramon Luis Rodriguez. I don't see him not appearing. Latoya Jackson Tucker. Appearing. So good evening. Good evening. Latoya Jackson Tucker-Nort. The last Council meeting I gave y'all a proposal. So this Council meeting I gave y'all a sample of what the actual product. This is for my book bag drive. Mr. De Silva said he needed a flyer. I said I wanted y'all all the help is in August in the West the last Sunday. So that's what the flyer for. But I want to elaborate more on my proposal from last week. So basically I'm shopping the program around as a community service for young girls. It can be tailored from preschool early start early hood development always to senior services. I have talked to the Office of Balance Prevention. I met with the South Ward Environmental Alliance. I also met with the Shawnee Baraka Center today. I also had a conversation with Mr. Ratten. I'm going to resend my information to him because they have a new manager for recreation. My support team and my marketing team basically told me that what I am introducing to the city is life skills and it's much needed for our community. I would like the opportunity to palette my program with the help of the Council and me giving up my time and volunteer with actually doing the program within the Shawnee Baraka Center. I do need help with supplies. I do have a budget. I also would like to initiate it myself along with the Shawnee Baraka Center. They want to partner with me and we also do. It is very important. I'm going to always talk about unity in my community. And when I had the meeting today, we did that particular sample for y'all and I named it Unity because it's very important. It breaks my heart to see us fighting amongst ourselves when at the end of the day we are all niggas to the people in power. Not me either, but that's their view. I'm just being honest. I apologize. I'm not calling anyone a nigger, but I'm saying how I feel. Am I feeling? Go use that word again, please. I apologize. I will apologize. Okay. But it is the truth. Point blank period. And I don't like us not being unified because it divides us even more when they could see us disrespect each other in a way that makes no sense. Like in this moment, because I have actually came down here the last couple of years speaking about incarceration and the wrongs that happened to our Black men, there was no way that I was going to stay away from that protest and not support our leader or LaMonica. And I have a husband that I talked to over the phone before I came down here and he know how I feel and he encouraged me, go ahead, Sister Soldier number two, and go down and protest for your mayor. So had I been at Delaney Hall, you will probably see the exact same thing. And I have not bent over for anybody is because we have choices. We can choose to be angry and mad. I'm a licensed cosmetologist. I know that when you're mad and you frown, it don't make you please into the eye. We can see that when you're angry, it shows like my energy today sitting here was very disturbing because I respect everyone in this room, no matter how they may feel about my views, my opinion, and my feelings are mine. But it hurts me a lot to see us still fighting when we have a president that could say the days of marching and being woke are gone. Our community right now is very woke. And if we are not woke, you need to wake up because if we continue to fight amongst each other, we're going to show our children that we're going to show the nation that and I grew up with a grandmother that would sit at her table with Catholics, with Jehovah witnesses, with Pentecostals, with Baptist people. They had tea and toast on Saturday. She was a middle class woman that owned a building on 849 Clinton Avenue in Newark in the South. So like I came from respect. I came from honor. I came from dignity. I came from a time when people were unified and that's all I know how to give. Even though people or things may not reach my expectation, I still feel like people deserve grace because I am a mess and God has given me grace. So I'm going to continue to ask my community to give each other grace. I'm going to continue to come to this mic and speak about love and not hate because it's necessary. But the program, I will talk again, basically more and I appreciate y'all. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker.

Mr. President, council members, the honorable 1 million residents transient and 700,000 residents who are sub transient in the city of Newark. Good evening. My name is Che John Coulter and I'm here to address the government. First, I'd like to surrender 10 seconds of my time for past mayor, honorable Sharp James and remember our last conversation at the Newark museum in the James Brown Memorial room. We'll do that at this time, ladies and gentlemen. If I had the hand drum right now, I would be beating the hand drum, but we will surrender that time. All right. So all levels of government are in need of critical realignment and address both at the city, starting at the city level, the city level of government must realign its priorities, both with the agenda of the president, the clerk and this municipal government, the county government. I'm not sure what they're doing. They operate not only the juvenile detention center, but also a federal ICE detention center and our federal and state representation has confused federal law with municipal agenda. And it's unfortunate, Mr. President, that we've come to a day in time when one of our federal representatives would inject themselves in something that is something of an abstract subject from local residents. We want to always be legal. Mr. President, your generation was never able to be illegal. And I think that we have to do a full circle in a straight line back to the North residents. That's what we want to do at this point in time. Number two, the DPW department gave an address at the special meeting and not all financial questions were answered in terms of the equipment. The equipment, I'm not speaking, if anything, personal against the director, but the equipment, personal protection equipment for the workers. I don't see a shovel, a broom and corrective long sleeve uniforms for all of our DPW employees. And I'm hopeful that the next time that there's a presentation before you in the scope of DPW that we get that to 100% management, similar to what New York has. Newark's the biggest city in New Jersey and it's time that we treat the DPW staff how they should be. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street legislation, that's directly tied to what Miss Oprah Wright has come before you, what you see happening at Georgia King Village, but Wall Street is manipulating Main Street and you all are at sleep at the wheel of the legislative reality. Five, ICE versus quality education. When will this municipal government hold a legitimate education committee hearing? I'm speaking through my representative to you, Mr. President, Mr. South Forth, Councilman. You have some good vision. The last meeting I heard you speak about the airport, but I want to hear you speak more on education and realign this government's priorities post pandemic in the COVID-19 for us to get our students back on track. Number six, 2025 is the year of the Black Madonna and collective change and we are seeing jaw dropping change, but we also want to illuminate the fact that we are entering a budget season and not only is my time running out, but your money is running out and if we don't get it together, Mr. President, within the next 60 seconds, 60 seconds in it, but eternity is in it, we have to not only purchase capital equipment, make a capital budget, but build five-year budgets and 10-year budgets so that next budget cycle, you'll have more budget flexibility to distribute money through the budget, whether it's senior services, senior housing, bulletproof helmets for our police officers, residents to have more therapeutic interventions outside of just the peace collective. The police collective is good, but we need more functions and more interventions for domestic violence and psychological resources for our residents. The Newark airport is completely unattached from this government and I think that it's a time that you have Councilman Silva deferred as the chair and grill the Port Authority upon this body. I'm running out of time. I'll try to write next time, but thank you and residents, we must fight. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Cassandra Dock. Cassandra Dock, of course, I got to pay my respects to the Honorable Sharp James. It was my fighting with Sharp that made me fall in love with the city of Newark because Sharp understood that white people own this city, but he also made them understand that it was black people and Latino people that had to vote and give them the right to do what they wanted to do, dealing with stuff they own. Now, let me go here with, you know, Sharp, I like to talk about you a little bit more, but I got to get to something and somebody on the second floor and somebody and I think they occupied the Leroy Smith building. I think that's where the office is. So when it comes to GL, and this is what I need you to do, Hannah Montana, AKA Hata. Now I got that name from Ms. Jackson, so don't blame me, Hannah Montana. I need you to go back because see, GEO was inside of 224. Before 224 became, well, it was first a shelter, urban renewal, then GEO went in there, and now it's back to a shelter. And when GEO was inside 224, I wanted to bet my life they didn't have no permits to go in there. RAS and you were the mayor. Secondly, when it comes to GEO, GEO was inside Delaney Hall like Ableek Donestad, over 10 years ago. And when GEO was inside Delaney Hall, Joe D was over the ICE program. And his chief of staff, Phil Elijah, was a director. Not only was Phil a director, but we had retired North police officers who worked for ICE. So who you plan with, who you plan with, you could care less if they had a permit inside of Delaney Hall. Your problem is over 15 years, they've getting that $1 billion. You ain't getting none of it, and Joe ain't getting none of it. That's your problem. Because you don't care. You don't care. Because if you did, if you truly cared, and people spoke to it before I got up here, you would be down in front of landlord's tenet court every day. If you cared, when you sat with your developers, you would even ask them, come on now, could I do something with the rent? Because my people really can't afford it. If you really cared, this why we know you don't care. And let me get to you, LaMonica, Donna, you said it best. She was all over Ras J. Baraka. I couldn't, I didn't understand what he was to her. Or Homeland Security. That's the community that she sits on. You knew that was federal property. You knew it, LaMonica. And it's private. You had no, the same kind of respect, when you sat in that council seat, that's the same respect you should have gave those federal officers. We can't even trust you to be on Homeland Security. Hannah Montana, you better get her. You booked her today, but you better get her. Because if that's what she did, at the time Ras Baraka did what he did, he was an enemy to law enforcement. So what she showed is an enemy that's a friend to her, she's going to support the enemy. That's what she showed. She is against, she sits on the Homeland Security Committee. What was her reason for being all over? Did she see Ms. Watson do that? And she tried to pull Ms. Watson in there. Ms. Watson is a veteran as an official. She should have followed that. Know what she needs? She needs your mother. She needs your mother here, because that's your mother, girl. You should have got her over there. You should have got her. This is your girl, too. You're a better groomer, and you better tell her what she can do and what she can't do. And I'm really just saying that because I want Hannah Montana to lock her up. She got to be locked up, and then she'll learn. Knock it off. Thank you for your comments. Anything from the council? Yeah, Mr. Chair. Councilman, council. Yeah, I just want to say, number one, I'm 1000% behind our former council president and current congresswoman, LaMonica MacIver. And I will stand with her in any situation, in any circumstance. It's fine if they scream out. I was very polite when they spoke, so I don't mind if they scream out, because I was polite when they spoke. But I stand behind our congresswoman, and I know that justice is going to prevail on her side. And I understand the nature of this world that we're going in, and the fight for due process in the constitution. Because it's the constitution that allows people to come to these meetings and have the right to speak. And I know that because I fought for it many times in this council chamber, where I was arrested for making sure that the people had the right to speak. And so I understand the importance of standing up for our constitutional rights, standing up for due process, so that people can be able to do that. And I stand with Congresswoman LaMonica MacIver at this time. I just wanted to make that point clear. That's all. Thank you, councilman, council. Anything else from the council? Anything from the administration? Ms. Dock, we need to hear, please. Good evening, Eric Pennington, business administrator. With respect to certain comments that echo councilman Gonzalez's constant reminder that the budget has not been submitted to the council yet. We agree that it needs to get to you. We're working diligently on that, as I indicated yesterday. Do my best to get that to you and to the rest of the council as soon as we can. With respect to issues that were brought up regarding Delaney Hall, and I think councilman council's comments about the first amendment the mayor has been steadfast in his belief that all people who are in the city of Newark, in the state of New Jersey, in this country have to have their constitutional rights protected. The constitution says that all persons are entitled to due process. It doesn't say all residents. But once the people are here in the city of Newark, they are residents just as we are here in the city of Newark. They are neighbors. They are people who work amongst us and live amongst us. And the mayor will continue to fight on their behalf and make sure that they are treated with dignity and respect. He, like probably everybody else in here, would like to see murderers, rapists, and robbers convicted or arrested, tried, and convicted. And if they are immigrants, sent back to where they came from. But there are other immigrants here who may be undocumented, but it doesn't mean that they don't have children and family members and they work and they provide services and pay taxes here in the city of Newark. And those are our neighbors. We will continue to fight for them. The murderers, rapists, and robbers, they can go. They can go today, tomorrow, and if they go through ice, great. Those other residents who are housed in that facility that has not been properly vetted should not be there. And that facility needs to be vetted. It needs to have a certificate of occupancy. And as long as the law in the city of Newark and the state of New Jersey requires it, we will pursue that. That's why the mayor was there. That's why the mayor sent me there. And I will continue to make sure that any business in the city follows the law. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Any comments, questions for the BA? Thank you. Council President, council members, we are on page four of the agenda. Item five, reports and recommendations of city officers, boards, and commissions. Council is a hold to adopt. Ordinances on public hearing, second reading, and final passage. 6P SFA is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to 317 Mulberry Street Urban Renewal Company LLC for a project to construct 24 market rate residential rental units in the central ward, sponsored by Councilman Silva, second by Councilman Gonzalez. Is there anyone wishing to speak on this ordinance? Before someone comes up, can we just get another explanation on this matter? Because it's one of five different projects. Correct. Good evening. Brandy Daniel, legislative coordinator for economic and housing development. Yes, Council President, as you stated, this particular project is connected to five other projects. They are all connected. Although this one does not have affordable housing, three of the other projects do offer affordable housing offsite. And altogether, I believe it was over 30% of affordable housing? Thank you. Okay. Let's continue on to public hearing. Cassandra Doc? Larry, it doesn't have it. She just told you. So what are you going to do about it? See, this is what I'm talking about. You down there talking about detainees, ice, get here and talk about water. That's what you need to do. Larry, the lady just stood here and said, this doesn't have it. See residents, this is what you got to pay attention to. It's what Mr. Barack is not doing. He's not doing anything about this right here. This does not have it. You okay with that, Pat? You okay with that, cousin? You okay with that do nothing? You okay with that, Larry? Louis, come on now. Nebo, Roundtree, Silber, I don't know if you understand some of this stuff that's going on here, because you know. You okay with this? What you going to do? What are y'all going to do? Is it because there's nobody here to represent the central ward maybe? Is that what it is? Is that why this is allowed to go on like this? Because there's nobody here to represent it. Nobody here to talk about it. Nobody to say when, obviously when this was sat down and talked about, because there's no representation from the support of central ward, then this was allowed to go on. Because I will hope that whoever represented the central ward would not have allowed this to go on. So now we got to sit and watch the bobblehead episode. Yes. Yes. I don't even know how, I don't understand. Go back and do something about this, Larry. So as before, before Ms. Salters, you come up as Ms. Daniel said, this is one of five projects and combined they're providing affordable housing over 30% total. The five projects we've already voted on most of them already. Next speaker. Yes, Deborah Salters. So I remember us talking about these five projects, but what was not clear was, so is the 30 year tax abatement on all five properties altogether, because I know last time you voted, it was on the list and you voted on them. They were put together or Alison Lat came up and was like, okay, but remember this is part of five. She had to always remind y'all. And then she reminded you when you were asking questions that there are legal parameters, but we got two lawyers up here and y'all let her shut you up. But anyway, I would have asked for the article of the law that she was talking about, but y'all didn't do that. So is the 30 year grand total, like you're saying altogether five properties give you 30%, what you all call affordable is a 30 year tax abatement for all five properties or does each property have a tax abatement within itself? Can you answer that? Because that was not made clear when it was explained the first few times. She was speaking very fast and you all have the information, I guess, on legislature because it's not given to us. So somebody please explain, are they just getting one tax abatement for all five properties or is it one? Okay. Can we get a clarity on that? Because that makes a difference. Okay. Because it's a tax abatement for each one. And I'm saying it again because I want it to be clear what I'm saying. Each building, does each building have a tax abatement or is it one 30 year tax abatement for all five properties since only one? And I believe you said one of the properties is going to be all affordable. I believe that's what you said and then the other ones are something else. Okay. Thank you. Next speaker. So the lady from economic, what's the community benefits agreement with this property? Because this is the issue here. We never get our return on investment whether it's a tax abatement or what. What makes y'all vote for a 30 year tax abatement? And whatever happened to you, Ramos and Ras reassessing the tax abatement? You said you was going to come back and try to figure out if you're going to start doing some assessments. Meaning like finding out if the person when they get a tax abatement or they are adhering to the agreements, which that normally don't happen. Whatever happened to that? Where you say you was going to give them like 10 years or 20 years and then if they do things in good faith, then you're going to extend it. Whatever happened to that? Whatever happened to that? Can we get some feedback on that? Because y'all just thrown around tax abatements and you see that especially downtown, there's a war zone down there, there's a war and people are in dire need of job opportunities as well as housing. Because if you have a great job, a good job, good paying job, like construction like Ras promoted when he ran for office. Oh, we're going to get you $50 an hour jobs, we're going to get you construction jobs and what happened? Whatever happened to that campaign promise, Mr. Baraka? Whatever happened to that? Whatever happened to you all as a council holding them accountable to that campaign promise? Because it don't make no sense that people in construction like Tillman and other individuals keep coming up to this mic talking about where's the opportunities for Newarkers and then you wonder why it comes out mad when individuals come up to this mic and then you look at us like victimized the victims. Where's the jobs? Where's the housing that meets the needs of the residents of the city? When is you going to go by? We got Joey D, Essex County first, we got Trump putting Americans first. When are you going to put Newarkers first in this city? When are you going to do this? So maybe somebody can, you know, individuals who want to, like you keep saying, unite. They might want to unite with you. If they're getting something out of return on something, votes or whatever, this is just unacceptable. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Um, if this is a total of five property, Emily Eakins, if this is a five property deal, right, and it's spread out through multiple meetings to pose as one property and you're giving this one a 30 year tax abatement, is this a scam? Because each property, if it's a five total package should have probably had a five year. So what was it that made y'all say you should get 30 for this one? Cause it's looking on paper like it's a scam. You're trying to play us. So we need clarification and possibly can you let us know who these people are and who's related or who's a friend? Because I don't see how this benefits us. 30 years is a lot and it's not really making any sense to us, especially when you have other entities that aren't treating our people well and yet they still keep building. So what are the parameters? Like I don't understand and is there anything that is benefiting us in a community other than you have one building that's all affordable? Like you have 24 and you have 15 parking spaces. So I'm always asking this question. They got to pay for that because that's not a benefit. So clearly the rent is going to be between what? 3000 and 5000 starting with a, I don't even know what, what is this? One bedroom, two bedroom. So again, y'all needs to be careful because on paper it looks skimish and we're not really falling for it. Again, I'm not really sure how y'all are trying to play this because I know that there's 2026 coming and right now you're failing us. This doesn't make sense. So make it make sense. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Good evening, George Stoneman Jr. So council president, I'm not going to be redundant on all these tax abatements, but I'm going to say this. From today we saw in that meeting, that tax abatement committee meeting with those residents. When we talk about the components of this system being broken, this is why I'm asking that these tax abatements be, have some sort of injunction or we have this special conference to deal with this broken system that has to do with