Q&A
Promotional video for Bronx Logistics Center featuring Jesse Hamilton
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Council Member Lincoln Restler questions DCAS Commissioner Louis Molina about a promotional video featuring Deputy Commissioner Jesse Hamilton endorsing the privately-owned Bronx Logistics Center. Restler expresses concern about the appropriateness of DCAS promoting a private property and emphasizes that DCAS's role should be to execute the best deals for city workers and taxpayers, not to promote private interests.
- The video showcases Jesse Hamilton and other officials praising the Bronx Logistics Center's features and potential benefits.
- Commissioner Molina requests a link to the full video and promises to look into the matter further.
- Restler emphasizes that in his experience, DCAS has never promoted a private site for utilization before.
Lincoln Restler
1:54:49
That is what I'm I'm that's why we're having this hearing today.
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Gonna try to show this to you one more time.
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I'm not banking on it, but we'll try.
1:54:56
Let's let's do one more, and we'll see because you haven't seen this video, so you'll enjoy it.
Jesse Hamilton
1:55:04
We're here at the Bronx Logistics Center.
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It's a phenomenal place, 1,300,000 square feet, which can accommodate a lot of the city agencies.
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It's a state of the art industrial space, warehouse, which has a platinum lead certification.
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We have a great team here that that was assembled today.
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We have Erica Bosch from OMB, George Donahue from the leasing unit.
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R e s a d cast, and we just wanna thank Eric Abad for having the foresight to be here and coming with short notice.
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George Donahue for looking for the location and and Charles.
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Charles Groes is his phenomenal guy.
1:55:47
He He said, Jess, we need to see this place.
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I I said, I know I have a great team.
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Let's go see the place, and now I think we're we're on the cutting edge.
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And I just wanna say, you know, let Eric say something real quick and then let George.
Erik Abad
1:56:00
Thank you.
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This place is amazing.
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I think this is huge potential would be a great possible benefit for the city.
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Like Jesse mentioned with the lead platinum.
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It's exactly the future of the city and where we need to be.
Jesse Hamilton
1:56:15
Hey.
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I am Jesse Hamilton Hood.
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Deputy commission.
1:56:18
I'm sorry.
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I need to mention that.
George Donohue
1:56:21
Yes.
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This is an excellent building for the city of New York.
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Plus, the community is gonna love this.
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We're gonna create new jobs, be very energy efficient, and very operationally perfect.
Jesse Hamilton
1:56:32
And this is a great economic economic development.
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Thousands of jobs we created here.
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We have a a mayor, visionary to make sure we have economic development, and I'm sure this is a win win for all everybody involved.
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So
Lincoln Restler
1:56:46
Great.
1:56:46
That's a snippet.
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My understanding is this is a 12 or 13 minute long video as a whole.
Louis Molina
1:56:52
Well, I thank I thank you chairman for bringing the video to my attention.
1:56:55
Great.
1:56:56
If you wanna send me a link so I can see the full version of the video, and I will look into it further.
Lincoln Restler
1:57:02
Okay.
1:57:03
Now that you've had a chance to see what I was referencing, any further feedback on the appropriateness of a video like this, of decast promoting a privately owned space for utilization?
Louis Molina
1:57:16
Not at this time.
Lincoln Restler
1:57:17
Okay.
Louis Molina
1:57:18
But I will follow-up with you.
Lincoln Restler
1:57:19
Alright.
1:57:20
I I can just I just wanna say one more time, in my years in government experience, I can never recall decast promoting a private site for utilization.
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It's the role of Decast to execute the best deals for the city workers, for the city taxpayers.
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It is not Decast's role to be promoting the best interests of private property owners.
1:57:41
Is what I think we see here on this video.
1:57:43
Can't remember Brewer would like to ask a couple of questions.
