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Council Member Ariola discusses Republican delegation and common sense caucus bills
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Council Member Joann Ariola presents several bills introduced by members of the Republican delegation and common sense caucus, highlighting their bipartisan support and solution-oriented nature. She covers bills related to electric scooters, bicycle registration, school safety, squatter tracking, homeless shelter notifications, and veteran housing.
- Ariola emphasizes the importance of these bills and encourages support from other council members.
- The bills address various city issues including transportation safety, emergency preparedness in schools, homelessness, and veteran affairs.
- Ariola's time expires before she can finish discussing all the bills, but she manages to mention her own resolution before concluding.
Joann Ariola
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Thank you, majority leader.
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The Republican delegation and common sense caucus has several solution oriented bills that members have introduced which have bipartisan support that I'd like to discuss here today.
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Council member Paladino has introduced Intro 60, a local law to amend the administrative code of the City Of New York in relation to prohibiting the operation of electric scooters, bicycles, with electric assists in our parks.
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Council member Robert Holden has a bill intro two zero six zero six which would require every bicycle with electric assist, electric scooter, and other legal motorized vehicle that is otherwise not required to be registered with the DMV, to be registered with the DOT, and receive an identifying number which would be displayed on a visible plate affixed to the vehicle.
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Council member, Mamorato, has introduced intro one zero zero two.
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This bill would require all schools to stock airway clearance devices, a laughs a lifesaving device that would be a tool for school personnel to use while waiting for first responders to arrive.
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Council member Susan Zuang put forth intro nine zero seven, which would require the police department in collaboration with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, and any other relevant agency to use a quarterly report on locations in which persons are squatting in this city.
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Council member David Carr has introduced intro eleven sixty six, which would amend the existing community notification requirement to require the Department of Homeless Services to notify elected officials and community boards for affected areas when an emergency homeless shelter contract is renewed.
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Our veterans are extremely important to our caucus and this body, and that is why I'd like to discuss a number of bills dedicated to ending homelessness for those who have risked their everything for our country.
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Council member Vernikov has sponsored intro four six five which would require an annual report from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development on the amount of veterans applying for housing in the city run Mitchell Lama Developments an amount of veterans being selected for occupancy and documenting requirements and safeguards in place.
Amanda Farías
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Minority leader, your time has expired.
Joann Ariola
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Okay.
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And just res o four sixty five, that's mine.
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Please sign on.
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Please support.
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These are bills that we can all get behind and we'd love to see them pass in this body.
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Heard, passed, and and enacted.
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Thank you.