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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Elizabeth Polanco, Leader of the Council for Advocacy of Corporations in New York and Worker at RADI Consulting NYC
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Elizabeth Polanco testified about the importance of worker cooperatives in New York City, highlighting their role in providing various services and contributing to economic growth. She emphasized the need for continued support for initiatives like WCBDI to help communities and address unemployment.
- Polanco leads the Council for Advocacy of Corporations in New York and works for RADI Consulting NYC
- Worker cooperatives offer services such as childcare, senior care, carpentry, and yoga workshops
- These cooperatives contribute to reducing unemployment rates and paying taxes like UBT
UNKNOWN
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Good afternoon.
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My name is my name is Elizabeth Polanco.
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Thank you to the committee of finance for giving me the opportunity and the space to testify.
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I am part and I lead the Council for Advocacy of Corporations in New York.
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And we focus on providing services and cooperative services in the economic and social fields.
6:43:36
Okay.
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I'm also a worker of RADI Consulting, New York City.
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We offer accounting services, interpretation services, web pages, design for web pages, administrative services.
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And we also offer services to plenty of nonprofit organizations.
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For example, Misteca and Carini.
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We were founded on 02/2019 as a solution for the lack of employment and as a solution to help the migrant community and support them.
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There are plenty of cooperatives just as mine.
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And we offer services such as childcare, senior care, carpentry, yoga workshops, and many more.
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And we help the city to diminish the unemployment rates.
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And I know that these services have helped a lot of different people that use our services and cooperatives as well, and that we are a big part of the economic flourishing that we can see in New York City.
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And I have seen this happen in other several cooperative owners such as me as well.
Jacques Jiha
6:47:00
Your time has expired.
Akiana Smith
6:47:03
Okay.
Justin Brannan
6:47:09
Okay.
6:47:09
Could you just summarize so we can move Sure.
UNKNOWN
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So as part of our work as cooperatives and in RAD Consulting NYC and also as part of the Council for Advocacy.
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We do offer several services.
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And for example, we do pay the UBT tax.
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And we also help with the deficit that there's with the necessity for employment.
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And we also contribute the growth.
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And we also contribute with the growth of the thriving of funds and resources for the city and fight for the unemployment rates.
Julie Menin
6:48:08
Okay.
Justin Brannan
6:48:52
Okay.
6:48:52
Thank you.
UNKNOWN
6:48:54
Okay.
6:48:54
Well, thanks to you.
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I just wanted to mention, and there was to interpreter, that I want the initiative of the WCBDI to keep going forward so we can give the help that the communities need and that we continue to have the tools and the opportunities and to be part of the administration of these services to help with the needs of the city.
6:49:25
Thank you.