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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson, Member of the Public
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Christopher Leon Johnson provides testimony regarding the transparency and accountability of Temporary Certificates of Occupancy (TCOs) in New York City. He expresses concerns about the lack of public visibility of TCOs and calls for greater involvement from city officials in addressing these issues.
- Suggests that TCOs should be prominently displayed in and outside buildings for public view
- Calls for 24/7 reporting capabilities for TCO-related issues, similar to fire department operations
- Criticizes the absence of borough presidents and the public advocate at the hearing, questioning their involvement in TCO oversight
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Thank you.
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Hello, my name is Christopher Leon Johnson.
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Next to be up on this panel, Ms.
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Areola.
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Just about five minutes ago, Brad pander just complained about recently conconvenient that Brad pander just complained about the temporary certificate of occupancy for Turkish House, which is really ironic and people are also asking why pander your campaigning on government time.
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You're using your government Twitter account to campaign for mayor by exploiting this whole panel here this whole hearing today.
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But at the same time, you won't call you won't ever call out the nonprofits that do the same thing that are working with your wife that that you allow $500,000,000 to be funneled through them through the help of your wife, Brad.
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You need you need to look yourself in the mirror with that.
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Now let's talk about this.
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Right?
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Here's the thing with the certificate of of certificates of occupancy is that there's need to be more real transparency of what goes on of how these stuff be looked up.
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I I believe that all TPOs should be in front of the building and inside the building where people just foresee it in the bigger in a bigger font.
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Now people should be able to call the stuff people should be able to report the stuff twenty four hours a day, seven days a week as much the fire department is open twenty four hours, seven days a week.
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They should be able to complain about this stuff while at the same time that our borough presidents, all five borough presidents should be held liable for this too because they are the some like the direct people to this access to the city and the public advocate office.
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I wanna know why the public advocate didn't come for this.
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He proposed advocate for the people.
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Where is Jumani?
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Where is our public advocate?
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He didn't come out he didn't even put a report for this.
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He didn't put a report for this.
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The board president should be here too.
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I mean, hey, this is I I understand, like, it's it's a lot of complex stuff with trying to get a a certificate of occupancy, but this should be more bigger advocacy just as you, Joanne.
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You're only you're like the only person who's really calling stuff out, but where's the other council members?
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Where are they at?
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So