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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Cynthia Tibbs, Tenant Association President of West Side Urban Renewal Brownstones on NYCHA Transparency Issues
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Cynthia Tibbs, Tenant Association President of West Side Urban Renewal Brownstones, delivers a scathing critique of NYCHA and the Citywide Council of Presidents (CCOP), accusing them of corruption, bullying, and lack of transparency. She strongly supports the abolishment of CCOP and highlights issues with NYCHA's resident engagement practices.
- Tibbs describes NYCHA as "organized crime at its highest" and criticizes Simon Gortowski for bullying and gaslighting residents
- She accuses CCOP leadership of disparaging other tenant presidents and calls for its disbandment
- Tibbs alleges that NYCHA tries to replace tenant leaders who don't cooperate with more compliant residents
Cynthia Tibbs
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Good afternoon.
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My name is Cynthia Tibbs.
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I'm the tenant association president of Wisser Brownstone's thirty six buildings on the Upper West Side.
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After watching today, I'd like to put it in a nutshell.
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NYCHA is nothing but organized crime at its highest.
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The names have been changed.
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The godfather is now known as resident engagement and the real estate department, point blank period.
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Simon Gortowski, what he did today is just a miniscule of what he does to us and people going into the rad conversions.
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Bullying, the gaslighting, we deal with that on a daily basis.
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Regarding what mister Martinez said, I am in 100% in favor of the abolishment of CCAP.
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The citywide council of presidents is nothing but another COPPO regime.
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They are not for us.
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Recently, lot of Us Presidents were privy to a Zoom meeting that they had in January where they referred to all the presidents, and they stated, miss Lozado said, I can't stand any of the presidents.
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Mister Bowman said that all the presidents are nothing but insects and bugs that should be swatted, sprayed, and smacked away.
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This is a man that the only time we ever he ever reached out to any of us presidents was when he wanted donations when he was running for city council in his district.
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They are corrupt at the highest level, which is why NYCHA meets with them on a weekly basis because those of us that try to do right in our developments that are transparent with our residents, that do not steal, that do not muddle receipts, that do not owe resident engagement over 900 receipts, that are allowed to get away with things, that no one else is allowed to get away with need to be disbanded and let the chips fall as they may.
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Cynthia Tibbs
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Thank you.
Cynthia Tibbs
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Thirty seconds, and I'll wrap it up.
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Thirty seconds, seven seconds.
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All need to disbanded.
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They are corruption at the highest.
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The highest.
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And the more that we don't go along, they push back.
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And, yes, the bullying is real, and it happens to us also.
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When we don't go along, they try to replace us with residents that will go along.
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And I yield to my my whole testimony has been submitted.
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Thank you.