TESTIMONY
Vicente Veintimilla, Street Vendor and SVP Member, on the Unjust Persecution of Street Vendors and Need for Education About Informal Commerce Regulation
6:00:41
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4 min
Vicente Veintimilla, Street Vendor and SVP Member, delivers testimony regarding the planned budget allocation for the Department of Sanitation and its impact on street vendors. He states that the funds promote unjust persecution of street vendors and should instead be invested in training about pending regulations and workshops.
- The testimony highlights legal loopholes that restrict access to permits and licenses, causing street vending to continue as underground employment harming many vendors.
- Veintimilla calls for the Department of Sanitation to treat vendors more humanely and with respect, rather than instilling fear.
- He criticizes the confiscation of merchandise from vendors, including those with disabilities, without discrimination.
- The overall testimony advocates for a shift in approach towards street vendors, favoring education and integration over enforcement.
Vicente Veintimilla
6:00:41
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Veronica Escamila
6:02:48
My name is Vicente Ventimia.
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I'm a street vendor, an SVP member, and I work on Forum Road in the Bronx.
6:02:55
Thank you to the committee and council member, Abuel, for the opportunity to give my testimony about the planned budget allocation for the Department of Sanitation.
6:03:05
We consider that this money is promoting unjust persecution of strict vendors and that the funds should instead be invested in training about pending regulations.
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And other workshops.
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Workshops to educate both vendors and the community about the importance of regulating informal commerce.
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To face the needs of the city.
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It is evident that the hiring of new supervisors or strengthening the enforcement team will not end informal bending as long as legal loopholes continue to insist that restrict access to permits and licenses, a strict bending will always continue to be an option as underground employment, which harms thousands of vendors.
6:03:48
Far from Persuayan vendors, you are helping us to find adequate mechanisms in the unity of group organizing to defend our rights.
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One second.
Pierina Ana Sanchez
6:04:05
One second.
Veronica Escamila
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Sanitation has ceased merchandise to peers and other members of the community that are blind and to members of the community that use wheelchairs in this community or without any discrimination towards who they take them away from.
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We want sanitation to inspire us the respect that you deserve, not fear.
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And away from being just or before being just, towards us.
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We want you to treat us more humanly to be treated as human beings.
6:05:06
Hi, again.
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Thank this committee and council member of Rome.
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For the for their time and the opportunity to give my testimony.
6:05:15
Thank you.
Justin L. Brannan
6:05:16
Thank you very much.
6:05:17
Thank you.
Fahad Hussain
6:05:17
You're welcome.