REMARKS
Challenges in eliminating or reducing the rental payment
3:03:19
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35 sec
Council Member Gennaro discusses the difficulties faced by the City Council in trying to eliminate or reduce the rental payment in the city budget. He emphasizes the practical and political challenges involved in this process.
- Even reducing the rental payment would require finding significant budget cuts elsewhere
- The council member argues that the only effective solution is to prevent the mayor from including the rental payment in the budget initially
- Gennaro expresses frustration with the current system, comparing it to a partial removal of a knife wound
James F. Gennaro
3:03:19
Or even if we manage to say, okay.
3:03:21
Don't make it 4:40.
3:03:23
Make it like 3:30.
3:03:26
We'd have to find a $110,000,000 of cuts to make up.
3:03:30
And then you still got $330,000,000 sitting in there, and that's just like, you know, somebody stabbed you with a knife.
3:03:36
And they put it in 4 inches, and you pull it out 1 inch.
3:03:39
And it's just like, what do you do?
3:03:42
So the the only way the knife doesn't go in is that the mayor doesn't have the ability to do, you know, the rental payment in the first place.
3:03:49
I mean, from from from where I sit.
3:03:54
And as someone who wants to see the DEP be able to make the investments, it needs to make for precisely doing what needs to be done under 1067, you know, the rental payment is totally anathema, and It it it just it just gets in the way of what the EP has to do in this age of building, you know, possibly building a filtration plant, making things right with the people of Southeast Queens.
