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Council member emphasizes importance of specific bill feedback

1:58:48

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Council Member Gennaro stresses the importance of stakeholders providing specific feedback on the proposed bills in their testimony. He explains that the most compelling testimonies address how the bills accomplish or fall short of stakeholders' goals.

  • Gennaro encourages testimonies that suggest revisions to the bills
  • He emphasizes that this approach is the 'best kind of testimony'
  • This guidance is directed at all upcoming testifiers
James F. Gennaro
1:58:48
you.
1:58:49
And and if if you have written testimony that you know, because and this goes to all the power.
1:58:56
I mean, one thing I was looking for and and and and and testimony from stakeholders is the extent to which the bills that are on the table accomplish or don't accomplish what you would like to see accomplished.
1:59:10
And and and revisions that you think would be, you know, beneficial.
1:59:15
And so that's always the best kind of testimony.
Melissa Barbour
1:59:18
I did include that in my last paragraph, but I ran out of time.
1:59:21
Okay.
1:59:21
You asked.
James F. Gennaro
1:59:23
Make sure, you know, that that's the so to everyone, you know, yet to testify, it's like we have the bill, and it it does this, we wanted to do that, or whatever.
1:59:32
And that that's always the most compelling kind of testimony.
1:59:37
But
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