Adrienne Adams
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Now let's move on to our stated agenda.
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First, we'll vote on the following finance items, the transparency resolution approving new designations and changes of certain organizations receiving funding in the expense budget.
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Next, we'll vote on the following land use items.
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Ocean Crest rezoning will rezone a site in majority Whitbrooks Powers District from an existing R 41 to R 6 A.
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This approval will facilitate a 100% affordable homeownership project with up to 89 units.
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I wanna thank majority Whitbrooks Powers, the community builders, Governor Hochul, Mayor Adams, Congressman Gregory Meeks, Senator James Sanders, Assembly Member Khalil Anderson, Deputy Mayor Maria Torres Springer, and HPD for their partnership and collaboration to get this project across the finish line.
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07/2020 new Utrecht rezoning will facilitate a new mixed use eight story building with approximately 88 housing units including 26 affordable units under MIH and council member Brannan's district.
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56 William Avenue will facilitate one new two family home and minority leader Borrelli's district.
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A new six ninety six seat primary school in council member Lynn Schulman's district.
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1160 Flushing Avenue will facilitate a new mixed use industrial and commercial development in Bushwick.
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The council is modifying the rezoning area to remove additional properties along Wyckoff Avenue where there is no agreement or commitment in place to provide industrial space in line with recommendations from Brooklyn Community Board four and the Brooklyn Borough President and Councilmember Gutierrez's district.
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We're also voting on two landmark designations, Linden Street Historic District, a cohesive and distinctive block of 32 row houses in the Bushwick neighborhood in Brooklyn in council member Gutierrez's district.
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And, former Colored School Number Four, a three story mid block building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan built by the city's public school society in the late eighteen forties.
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The public school house served black children exclusively until the public school system closed the segregated school in 1869 in council member Bottcher's district.
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We will vote on the following resolutions.
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First, we'll vote on resolution two thirty seven a sponsored by Higher Education Committee Chair Council member Eric Dinowitz, which calls on the New York State Legislature to pass and the governor to sign the Fair College Admissions Act.
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This state bill would prohibit legacy admissions preferences at undergraduate colleges in New York State declaring such policies as inequitable and discriminatory.
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Thank you to our staff members Chloe Rivera and Regina Paul.
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We will also vote on a pair of resolutions.
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Resolution six ninety four a sponsored by civil service and labor committee chair Carmen de la Rosa and resolution seven twenty nine a sponsored by chair de la Rosa and council member Amanda Farias to express the council support for the Writers Guild of America and the Street Actors Guild unions respectively in their fights for fair contracts.
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Thank you to our staff members Elizabeth Arts and Rie Oguisawara.
