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Mr. Davis, please speak to the ordinance. I'll stay to the order Salters just told me there's a lot of information that she don't have that I hope you guys have before you vote on it. No more tax abatement. That's up. That's over That's over. You can't you can't keep doing the same thing. Don't you understand? You're broke. You ain't got nothing You're basically a bum you got no credit rating. You can't even lease vehicles. It's over No more tax abate with part. I mean, it's how hard is it? You know that loop if you ain't got it. You can't do it. You're gonna have you to see you the senior Rainbows you ain't done you from the East Ward You got to know you got to make it happen If you ain't got you can't go you can't be a groupie in this business. You can't do it this time Thank you for your comments next speaker. Oh Council atisha Davis, I'm gonna speak real quick. I just have something to say In my experience with all these properties with these abatements there seems to be a problem with registration Figuring out who owns these properties holding these properties accountable for the things that they're doing in this community I want to know if you guys figured out some type of Ordinance, whatever it is. How you plan to hold these people accountable? Okay. I think what is this five properties here? Why does it have to be five for the same owner? Y'all can't give maybe one building to building I mean, I understand tax abatements can be good for the community But they also are can be very what I meant bad Experience in the community with these abatements have been negative and it's like nobody cares Nobody cares. None of us mean anything. Everybody come in this room. They speak, you know if there are a lot of educated people here and y'all treat us like You can't be mad about the disrespect y'all get in return, you know I see why you guys are addressed the way you are addressed You give it you get it. That's all thank you for your comments next speaker Yeah, oh Cheney Phil Jenkins 88 Richmond Street Why was Carlos Gonzalez the only council person to raise the issue? Different company names, but the same…
Mr. Davis, please speak to the ordinance. I'll stay to the order Salters just told me there's a lot of information that she don't have that I hope you guys have before you vote on it. No more tax abatement. That's up. That's over That's over. You can't you can't keep doing the same thing. Don't you understand? You're broke. You ain't got nothing You're basically a bum you got no credit rating. You can't even lease vehicles. It's over No more tax abate with part. I mean, it's how hard is it? You know that loop if you ain't got it. You can't do it. You're gonna have you to see you the senior Rainbows you ain't done you from the East Ward You got to know you got to make it happen If you ain't got you can't go you can't be a groupie in this business. You can't do it this time Thank you for your comments next speaker. Oh Council atisha Davis, I'm gonna speak real quick. I just have something to say In my experience with all these properties with these abatements there seems to be a problem with registration Figuring out who owns these properties holding these properties accountable for the things that they're doing in this community I want to know if you guys figured out some type of Ordinance, whatever it is. How you plan to hold these people accountable? Okay. I think what is this five properties here? Why does it have to be five for the same owner? Y'all can't give maybe one building to building I mean, I understand tax abatements can be good for the community But they also are can be very what I meant bad Experience in the community with these abatements have been negative and it's like nobody cares Nobody cares. None of us mean anything. Everybody come in this room. They speak, you know if there are a lot of educated people here and y'all treat us like You can't be mad about the disrespect y'all get in return, you know I see why you guys are addressed the way you are addressed You give it you get it. That's all thank you for your comments next speaker Yeah, oh Cheney Phil Jenkins 88 Richmond Street Why was Carlos Gonzalez the only council person to raise the issue? Different company names, but the same address was that information ever provided to the council? When the administration indicated that they would give you all the Information as to why it had the same address for different titles. That's the question for this tax evacuement
Was that information provided to you guys? It was provided to us. Yes. Okay, so is it multiple What we're going to do is when that one's a public hearing is finished We're going to address the whole issue of the questions and answer those questions Okay. Well one of the problems that people have is Public information is supposed to be shared with the public. So you do it after the fact it would be More beneficial to the public if you were to in fact Explain to them before everybody gets up here and asks the question Now tax abatements were given years ago as an incentive To make people come in to the city. The city obviously is on fire as it was stated So why are we still giving tax abatements to market rate housing and not? Focusing on given tax abatement to developers as an incentive that will build low income there was a time when we only had low income housing being done and Then we turned around and went into market rate, but you guys have put market rate on steroid Which is pricing which has priced out. It's not pricing out It's already priced out the people from the city of Newark that are Indigenous that have lived here born here raised here or moved here for the opportunity young families. So the consideration needs to be that future tax abatements get be given out to Developers who are going to build housing that the people can afford by using the AMI For the municipality and not for the county Thank you for your comments next speaker Seeing none public hearing is now closed
Thank you. Thank you for your comments next speaker None public speaking hearing is not wait wait who oh, okay. Miss Freeman. Come on, Miss Freeman When I become mayor we become mayor I'm still the mayor Freeman State your name for the record, that's all I'm asking Please make your name for the record. We become mayor Freeman. I'm still the mayor I want a tax abatement you're giving out tax abatements. Where's my tax abatement? You do not make schedules so that we can talk to you so that we can get assistance Yesterday I'm evil Ramos who barely says two words and in these meetings Issues of dirt and filth and dust on Lake Street where he lives but not about what's going on with us I want a tax abatement. You keep handing out everything I'm looking at on here is a tax abatement Where's my tax abatement? How do I get a tax abatement as a long-time? resident with a family history of over 120 years of my people being here in the city of Newark and owning property Because I know the mayor like to run down his pedigree. I have a pedigree, too My people work so that you people you you dark brown people could sit up here and have a job in Government my people fought for you to be up there. My grandfather went to war My uncles went to war my aunts went to war. They were in the Navy and in the army and in the Marines Reverend round tree knows that I get furniture for the elderly I don't want you to give out any more tax abatements unless I can get one How many homeowners here need a tax abatement? We all want one. Oh the renters would like some some abatements, too We fund you and I know you like to disrupt people's conversation you disrupt Queen What she was saying and trying to tell her what to say? She said what she said as I just said what I said You want us to be friendly? I'm not here to braid your hair and be a be your buddy I want services. I'm not getting services. I bet an evil streak got cleaned up I am in five minutes walking distance from his house, but I can't get this garbage out here blowing up…
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Thank you. Thank you for your comments next speaker None public speaking hearing is not wait wait who oh, okay. Miss Freeman. Come on, Miss Freeman When I become mayor we become mayor I'm still the mayor Freeman State your name for the record, that's all I'm asking Please make your name for the record. We become mayor Freeman. I'm still the mayor I want a tax abatement you're giving out tax abatements. Where's my tax abatement? You do not make schedules so that we can talk to you so that we can get assistance Yesterday I'm evil Ramos who barely says two words and in these meetings Issues of dirt and filth and dust on Lake Street where he lives but not about what's going on with us I want a tax abatement. You keep handing out everything I'm looking at on here is a tax abatement Where's my tax abatement? How do I get a tax abatement as a long-time? resident with a family history of over 120 years of my people being here in the city of Newark and owning property Because I know the mayor like to run down his pedigree. I have a pedigree, too My people work so that you people you you dark brown people could sit up here and have a job in Government my people fought for you to be up there. My grandfather went to war My uncles went to war my aunts went to war. They were in the Navy and in the army and in the Marines Reverend round tree knows that I get furniture for the elderly I don't want you to give out any more tax abatements unless I can get one How many homeowners here need a tax abatement? We all want one. Oh the renters would like some some abatements, too We fund you and I know you like to disrupt people's conversation you disrupt Queen What she was saying and trying to tell her what to say? She said what she said as I just said what I said You want us to be friendly? I'm not here to braid your hair and be a be your buddy I want services. I'm not getting services. I bet an evil streak got cleaned up I am in five minutes walking distance from his house, but I can't get this garbage out here blowing up and down the street I can't get nothing clean and you giving out abatements Well, I need an abatement because I'm working for you out there cleaning like I'm sanitation I'm gonna give you an invoice. I'm serious. Thank you for your comments next speaker Attend city council meetings and speak even less frequently Many of you know me as a reporter for local top newspaper But today I come to speak about a situation where I live and other issues So let us begin. Please let me finish my speech first Then you can applaud criticizing the span to what I say To begin with manna drive in Newark just had its first new pavement in years Previously there were so many holes in the pavement that it is a wonder dangerous I see this didn't happen. What would I mean is holes the car does bump bump bump bump bump bump Whatever. So thank you for paving manna drive Could you pay near be Mount Vernon place? This is my wife This is Mount Vernon place now there holes in the pavement there This leads me to ask what has the city council done? To be paved there's new streets in various words I'm sorry, sir. I'm sorry, sir. Excuse me. We're speaking to the ordinance here specifically So speak on this time you're speaking directly to the ordinance that that's what this moment in time is for public hearing I'm sorry council president. I'm I'm hard of hearing you can someone tell me which which which which it's Right now the time is it's about speaking about the public about the ordinance This is a public hearing specifically about the ordinance Tax payments here. The other thing that I'm seeing is all those tax abatements to developers I get that developers are needed to build new buildings Question is should there be some sort of limit on how many developers are at any given time? How is this going to help newer financially if tax abatements are given out left and right? Can someone explain this to me downtown Newark and Boots Street and market streets has numerous vacancies Okay, my question is what are you going to attract businesses to buy those vacant properties and renting a developer? We take years to generate money for new okay, we're talking about tax abatements I'm talking about having a new business move into a vacant place Unbooting markets, please they would be thank you for your comments. Thank you for your comments Was gonna wait my turn. You know, I didn't really had to come up here be on a microphone So I heard this man and Felicia explaining me miss Salters This is the difference between governing No, you're in the hole. I want to go downstairs to the cafe cafe get a cup of coffee from the cafeteria I got a pay the lady if I can't pay the lady. I can't have no coffee You can't get you got it. I mean you got to do something else Instead of the same old same old try something new You know now you've seen how I felt the other day when you went to the church brother crump Rountree was at the church. They just let her speak