REMARKS
Amanda Farías explains her vote and highlights budget achievements
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Council Member Amanda Farías discloses personal connections to entities funded in the budget, expresses pride in the all-woman of color leadership team, and highlights the council's efforts in restoring and securing funding for essential services. She emphasizes the council's role in prioritizing community needs and fighting for significant budget restorations.
- Farías mentions over $2 billion in restorations since the mayor's preliminary budget and over $1 billion since the executive budget.
- Key areas of funding include affordable housing, libraries, parks, education, senior services, mental health care, and community safety.
- She concludes by voting "I and I" (aye) on the budget measures.
Amanda Farías
1:42:28
I am disclosing on the record of the counselor proceedings that NYU Langhorne is funded in the budget.
1:42:33
We are adopting, and my parent is associated with that entity, and that the new city department of education is funded in the budget we are adopting, and my sibling is associated with that entity.
1:42:43
It is not lost on me that it is my first budget as majority leader with an all woman of color leadership team and a woman of of a female majority council and the greatest budget negotiation team I've ever asked for this cycle.
1:42:59
We can just support it that way.
1:43:00
Thank you.
1:43:01
Good afternoon, and happy pride.
1:43:03
I'm proud to have been a part of the council's unwavering commitment to restoring and securing funding for essential services that make our city vibrant and livable for years to come.
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The council understood the stakes for New Yorkers.
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We have successfully prioritized and fought for the restoration and investment of over 2, 000, 000, 000 since the mayor's preliminary budget and over 1, 000, 000, 000 since the executive.
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This funding supports affordable housing, libraries, parks, early childhood education, student support programs, CUNY, SENIOR SERVICES, Mental Health Care, Community Safety, and so much more.
1:43:36
Our priorities are not crafted in isolation, but in hands on with the voices of our communities.
1:43:42
Without a counsel's intervention and fight, this budget would not have put them first.
1:43:48
Thank you to counsel speaker Adrian Adams for your leadership for our entire finance division, and I'm really proud of this city council.
1:43:56
And with that, I vote I and I.