Alexa Avilés
0:38:51
So this is a hard decision for me as I'm sure it is for so many of my colleagues.
0:38:56
I wanna acknowledge the tireless work of the speaker, her team, counsel finance, and counsel members who engage, negotiated, and communicated with us throughout the process.
0:39:06
I know that we fought our damnness to dig out of the tremendous hole that the mayor created with his funny map, his utter mismanagement, lies, and scapegoating tactics.
0:39:16
Despite the mayor's bad faith posturing, we secured substantial callbacks and funding for K-twelve education immigration services cultural organizations and libraries.
0:39:26
I remind you, none of these cuts should have happened in the first place.
0:39:32
I commend this counsel for the resources and dedicated and for the dedicated resources to affordable housing programs.
0:39:40
Specifically supportive housing and baselining such a significant amount of the city facts money.
0:39:46
These are no small feet under an administration with a track record of contempt for government and the services that everyday New Yorkers depend on.
0:39:55
This mayor continues to choose big real estate, corporate interests, castoral systems that harm us.
0:40:01
I cannot, in good conscience, endorse his arrest and harmful philosophy of governance with a yes vote.
0:40:07
We need to stop under funding and defunding systems of care that are the foundation of safety in our neighborhoods and we need to stop giving a blank check to policing in our budget when a fraction of NYPD's bloated budget could have restored critical services and programs.
0:40:22
New Yorkers rely on for health and safety.
0:40:25
Our working families deserve truly universal early childhood education and day care.
0:40:30
A program this administration has failed to do little to fix in the past 2 years, a fully funded CUNY system and government services that are well funded and effective.
0:40:39
Our parks department still doesn't have enough equipment and staffing to adequately maintain our green spaces.
0:40:45
When you look under the hood of the budget, you will find a collection of many ways this mayor has failed us and continues to waste resources.
0:40:57
With that, I've with that, I vote I on all except for M42 and M43 and accompanying resolutions, and I need to do my disclosure.
