PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Chhongu Sherpa Rotter, Member of the Himalayan Community
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Chhongu Sherpa Rotter, a member of the Himalayan community, testified in support of a bill to suspend alternate side parking on Losar (Tibetan New Year). He explained the significance of Losar to the Himalayan community in New York City and how parking concerns can impact their celebrations.
- There are approximately 61,000 Himalayan people living in the five boroughs of New York City
- Losar is a festive time when community members gather, wear traditional clothes, and visit family and friends
- The speaker emphasized that worrying about parking tickets during this celebratory time would be a "bummer" and detract from the festive mood
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My name is Congo, shooting Rotter, and I'm a Tibetan.
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I'm a Himalayan
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I'm a member of the Himalayan community.
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Approximately, there are around 61,000 Himalayan people living in the fibrosis.
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They're spanning from all walks of life.
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And on this particular Losarte, We all gather together.
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We we all marry.
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We all have festive time to adults.
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We all we all put our traditional clothes.
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The kids put our own.
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They have new clothes on.
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And We visit our parents.
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We visit our relatives, friends, and friends, and, you know, and every once we go, we're in a very festive mood, and you don't wanna be, you know, don't wanna be worrying about whether you're gonna take a parking ticket, you know.
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And it will it will be such a bummer if you you're such an existing modem.
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Right?
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And the want to just briefly say about how the Malvern community structure.
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Under the Malvern community, there are many several smaller communities like Wallung community that the one I come from.
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This Wallen community is in based in Nepal.
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It's in the right at the border of Nepal and Tibet.
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And back in 94, I came to States for for the studies.
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And since then, I've been in New York for the past 25 years.
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And we all have our one stories, one, you know, shipped by unique journalists, but we all come in one shared ambition shared notion that we wanted to really make this this bill.
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We I mean, this is a very meaningful bill for us.
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Once once this bill passed, once this bill is passed, it's a it's a mini it's something it's something the city would there.
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We feel like many further commission for our community.