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Council Member Lee inquires about partnerships to address needle issues near schools

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Council Member Linda Lee asks a follow-up question to Richardson Benjamin, the PTA president of P.S. 28 Mount Hope, about partnerships with groups working on the needle issue and the parks department.

Benjamin mentions reaching out to Senator Gustavo Rivera's office, the borough president's office, the council member's office, and Community Board 5.
He expresses frustration that despite promises to clean up the area, the issue persists during school hours.
Benjamin states that despite meetings with management, no significant changes were implemented.

Linda Lee

2:17:40

Okay.

2:17:41

Great.

2:17:41

Thank you.

2:17:41

And, just really quickly, a follow-up question is, have you been in touch with and partnering?

2:17:48

So when when you see a lot of you know, according to yourself, I mean, I know the parents have concerns, but have you been partnering with some of the groups that work on this or the parks department?

2:17:59

Yeah.

2:17:59

Just sorry.

Richardson Benjamin

2:18:00

I I think before it started, senator Gustavo was then time the senator around, so we called him to reach out to his office.

2:18:11

And I reached out to the borough president office, and then I reached out to the council member office, but we also reached out to community board five so that we can deal with this issue.

2:18:21

But they promise that they'll clean up the place, but sometimes during school hours, it happened.

2:18:26

So I wasn't seeing any changes.

2:18:31

I wasn't seeing any changes.

2:18:33

So this partnership, they tell us they will do it.

2:18:35

We went, sat down with the management.

2:18:38

Nothing was even done.

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