QUESTION
What kind of sustainable jobs will the project provide for the community, and how will it impact local income?
1:21:52
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3 min
The discussion focuses on the sustainable job opportunities that organizations like Pure Elements and Brick, Brownsville Arts Center will provide as part of the project, aiming to benefit the local community.
- Catherine Green Johnson, representing the public, discusses the project's potential to offer around 100 jobs through Pure Elements, mostly to individuals who have completed their programs.
- Pure Elements aims to provide sustainable income and benefits to their employees, including health insurance.
- The cultural institution's involvement is expected to draw people to East Brooklyn, potentially increasing local income by patronizing businesses along the Picon Avenue corridor.
- Concerns are raised about accessibility and the need for balanced development to improve the quality of life in Brownsville.
Darlene Mealy
1:21:52
What is your outlook on the jobs?
1:21:56
That will be bringing to the I forgot to ask the the developers because We always get just the construction jobs, and then they go off.
1:22:07
Mhmm.
1:22:07
And nothing really comes back.
1:22:09
No real.
1:22:10
It's a tank it's tainable jobs for the community.
1:22:14
So do you know what kind of budget you will have and how many people you think that with this.
1:22:20
And that's why I made sure what was said to me free.
1:22:25
I brought it out here that we could keep on them to make sure that they don't say one thing in closed doors, and here it is.
1:22:32
We're in open now.
1:22:34
And if it doesn't happen, please get back to me.
1:22:37
But what significant budget you can do now with hiring to sustain some jobs in our community.
Arvind Sindhwani
1:22:49
Yeah.
Darlene Mealy
1:22:49
Do you have a outlook on that?
Catherine Green Johnson
1:22:51
Yeah.
1:22:52
So I won't be a part of this project.
1:22:54
I'm here in support of it.
1:22:55
I still love the community, so I'm here to support it.
1:22:58
But I know for sure, pure element.
1:23:00
Brick, Brownsville Arts Center, and the other stakeholders that would be a part of this this project are providing jobs for young creators.
1:23:10
I know pre elements.
1:23:11
And, Kev, you can remind me of how many people you currently employ.
1:23:14
It's about to be about about 100 people, and most of those folks that work with pure elements are people who have gone through the program, and they come back into and they teach, and they have a sustainable income so that they can provide for their families and just knowing that this covering their overhead can provide them to even, you know, provide equitable rate wages, living wages for their employees, and be able to provide, you know, health insurance.
1:23:39
And all the things that we need in this city to survive.
1:23:43
And so this that institution alone, that's one organization that will be a part of this project.
1:23:48
That's what the power of the cultural institution pimpering, you know, bringing in people from throughout East Brooklyn to partake in the performances that will take place at the Black box theater, bringing in additional income into their neighborhood.
1:24:01
Right?
1:24:01
Going into the businesses that are along the the Picon Avenue corridor.
Darlene Mealy
1:24:06
But it it can't park because they gonna come.
Catherine Green Johnson
1:24:09
This is true, and this is something that we can work on sick at that.
Darlene Mealy
1:24:12
I'm just
Catherine Green Johnson
1:24:14
Yes.
1:24:15
They might.
1:24:17
I would say,
Darlene Mealy
1:24:19
it's it's a transit desert almost in Brownsville.
1:24:25
So That's the whole another thing.
1:24:28
And I just hope that we don't neglect people wanna live here just as well.
1:24:35
Y'all may go back to your homes, but people in Brownsville who've been disenfranchised for.
1:24:42
A long time.
1:24:43
I may wanna not live in a house in development anymore.
1:24:46
I wanna live in a building with a nice forty a year and everything.
1:24:50
So we can't you know, off their backs just as well.
1:24:53
There's gotta be a balance
Catherine Green Johnson
1:24:54
for both.
1:24:55
Absolutely.
Darlene Mealy
1:24:55
Arts is good, but quality of living is even better.
Catherine Green Johnson
1:24:59
Absolutely.
Kamillah Hanks
1:24:59
Thank
Catherine Green Johnson
1:25:00
you.
1:25:00
Absolutely.
1:25:01
And if I could just add really quickly.
1:25:03
So I've been displaced out of East New East Brooklyn.
1:25:07
So not only my organization but myself as well, my family, we cannot afford to live in East Brooklyn.
1:25:13
And so I'm still here to represent the neighborhood, but I I understand end, how that feels.
1:25:18
And so I know I'm making it my business and being passionate about working with responsible developers so that could make sure that the people in the neighborhood stay in the neighborhood and participate in these projects.
1:25:28
Thank you all so much for your time.