PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Cynthia Tibbs, Tenant Association President of West Side Urban Renewal Brownstones
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Cynthia Tibbs, Tenant Association President of West Side Urban Renewal Brownstones, expresses frustration with the federal monitorship of NYCHA and lack of communication with tenant leaders. She criticizes NYCHA's management and the impact of RAD/PACT conversions on residents.
- Tibbs highlights the lack of direct communication from the monitor's office to most tenant association presidents
- She accuses NYCHA of prioritizing promotions and higher salaries over resident services
- Tibbs expresses concerns about the privatization of public housing through RAD/PACT and the lack of NYCHA oversight in these conversions
Cynthia Tibbs
2:56:11
Good afternoon.
2:56:12
Yes.
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My name is Cynthia Tibbs.
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I'm the TA president of the West Side Urban Renewal Brownstones.
2:56:18
We are located on the upper west side, 36 buildings.
2:56:22
I'm also the 2nd vice chair of Manhattan South Decott.
2:56:26
Let's make it very clear.
2:56:28
This is a monitor's meeting.
2:56:30
We have yet to even get an introductory letter from the monitor's office letting us know who they are, who's in charge of what bureau, and how we can contact them.
2:56:41
I don't know if this is being done maliciously because they would to a contract with Nitro from what I'm told with.
2:56:48
They're not getting paid for the 1st year that they sit on this panel, but they have not worked with us at all.
2:56:55
They only have 2 TA presidents that sit on the roundtable.
2:57:00
So the only communication they're getting are from those 2, and that does nothing for the rest of us.
2:57:06
This nonsense has gotta stop.
2:57:08
They talk about their working great with Nigel.
2:57:11
I guess they are because they're lying today as much as night July.
2:57:14
Under oath.
2:57:15
No one takes this oath thing you guys do seriously.
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We're the ones that work every day with our residents.
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We are not paid.
2:57:24
NICE is so busy promoting themselves into higher positions that pay more money, but yet you can't get through to a call center for over an hour because they laid off half the call center because they're so busy going automated.
2:57:37
And regarding that impact, once they turn all these cheap cosmetic upgrades over to the private developers, they, in turn, have nothing to do with nicer residents, and they have no oversight over the PAC development.
2:57:54
I have been to meetings where residents are begged to come back to nature only to be told no because there's no representation for nature there.
2:58:03
And if I sound frustrated, it's because I only get 2 minutes to speak When nitrile gets to come up in there with their slides and their pretty pictures and swear to you that, oh, is this reason and that reason they're looking
Keith Grossman
2:58:15
Thank you.
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You're talking to X Y.
Cynthia Tibbs
2:58:17
Go down.
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They're looking for their numbers to go down.
