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Council member inquires about Amazon facility operations and truck traffic
2:19:57
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Council Member Robert F. Holden questions witnesses about the operations of an Amazon facility, focusing on its proximity to a school and the logistics of truck deliveries. The discussion covers the facility's layout, the types of trucks used, and the impact on the surrounding area.
- The Amazon facility is located near a District 75 school, raising concerns about pollution and student health
- Questions about the entry points for 18-wheeler trucks and their operations within the facility
- Discussion about the visibility and marking of Amazon trucks entering the facility
Robert F. Holden
2:19:57
Yeah.
2:19:57
Could I add something?
2:19:59
And that facility is about a hundred yards from a district seventy five school, which I I protested about that.
2:20:09
I said that first of all, school district seventy five school is smack dab in the middle of that industrial area.
2:20:18
Why would anybody put a school there?
2:20:21
Well the school was built in the early twentieth century and it wasn't factories there.
2:20:25
So this is what happened.
2:20:27
So I said, move to school.
2:20:29
Get it out of there because these students are certainly challenged beyond belief and their parents and now they're put into a polluted area.
2:20:40
And not only there's 18 wheelers idling and I have video idling right outside under the windows.
2:20:47
And then of course the air conditioning system is pretty poor of the building.
2:20:53
So here's what we're that's what the neighborhood is dealing with on on and then, of course, the truck driver.
2:20:59
How does the when you get the goods, do you do you have 18 wheelers going in in the facility regularly in the Amazon facility?
Nicholas Kammer
2:21:08
So at the facility that I had worked at, TPK 4, yes.
2:21:13
The the 18 wheelers, they don't directly enter the facility.
2:21:16
They usually there's a separate kinda entrance way, separate from where we serve the delivery.
2:21:21
I'm still
Robert F. Holden
2:21:21
trying figure out where it's in the back or Like, he it's so huge.
Nicholas Kammer
2:21:25
Towards the if you're familiar with it, kind of the approach from the LIU would be towards the back, the the second Yeah.
Robert F. Holden
2:21:31
Because I don't see that.
2:21:31
I don't you it's hard to find that.
2:21:33
You know?
2:21:34
It's come it comes into the back, you say.
Nicholas Kammer
2:21:36
There there's a second kind of lot towards the end of the the property.
Robert F. Holden
2:21:39
Are are they 53 footers?
2:21:41
Do you know or
Nicholas Kammer
2:21:42
I not wouldn't be qualified.
Robert F. Holden
2:21:44
Okay.
2:21:45
If you can look, just see there are 53 on the side.
2:21:48
It has to be labeled on on toward the front of the trailer.
Nicholas Kammer
2:21:52
I can definitely check that out
Robert F. Holden
2:21:54
next time.
2:21:54
Because then I'll you know, because I see trucks, I don't again, they're sometimes they're not marked Amazon.