REMARKS
Justin Brannan thanks staff and praises Speaker Adams' leadership
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Council Member Justin Brannan expresses gratitude to various individuals for their contributions during the budget negotiation process and praises Speaker Adrienne Adams for her leadership style.
- Thanks Andrea Fastenberger from the law department for work on the property tax debt resolution bill
- Acknowledges Deputy Speaker Ayala for helping manage the Budget Negotiating Team (BNT)
- Commends Speaker Adrienne Adams for her bottom-up leadership approach
- Recognizes Majority Whip Selvina Brooks-Powers for her efforts in budget negotiations
Justin Brannan
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I gave a very short eye before and I forgot to thank some folks.
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I wanna thank Andrea Fastenberger, the law department for all her hard work on the property tax debt resolution bill.
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And I also wanna thank deputy speaker Ayala for all she she did to keep to help while I was trying to negotiate the budget, over text message, Diana was actually keeping BNT in line, and I appreciate that.
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I also wanna put in I also wanna put into the record.
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I said it before, but I've been around this building for a while, 1st as a staffer, now as a council member.
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And I can honestly say, I've never seen her work with the speaker like Adrian Adams, who truly leads from the bottom up.
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Speaker Adams doesn't make her personal priorities the council priorities.
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She doesn't try to force what she cares about on the members.
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Quite the opposite.
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If the members care about something, then it becomes her personal priority.
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And I just wanna thank
Pastor Paul B. Mitchell
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her for her leadership.
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And
Justin Brannan
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because she'll kill me.
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Our our majority whip, Selvina Brooks Powers, for all her hard work, and getting us to such a big number.