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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson, Member of the Public
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3 min
Christopher Leon Johnson provided testimony on various issues related to libraries and cultural affairs in New York City. He advocated for extended library hours, dedicated spaces for worker organizations, and increased funding for security officers in libraries.
- Called for libraries to be open from 7 AM to midnight daily
- Suggested dedicated office space in libraries for Worker Justice Project and Street Vendor Project
- Advocated for increased funding for peace officers and security in libraries
- Expressed support for e-bike charging stations and protection for delivery workers and street vendors
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Yeah.
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Hello.
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Hello, chair, Rivera.
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My name is Christopher Leon Johnson.
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So, thank you for having this hearing.
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Thanks for taking out here for all of us.
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Yeah.
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It starts with the arts.
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The the funding of those libraries will be funded.
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I think the library is gonna be open from from 07:00 in the morning until midnight every day.
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The city has money for that every day.
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7AM to p 12:00 at nighttime because everybody works all day.
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And if I get up work at 10:00, I'm at the local library.
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All libraries all library's gonna be open from 7AM to to 12PM.
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While we're it, I'm calling on the city council starting with you, mister Rivera, because I know that your district has a deliverance to hub, deliverance to Ebarc charging station in Union Square.
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I think it's Greenwich the the Greenwich Village around on by the by the train station, by Ester Place.
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I'm calling on the city council.
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I'm sorry, missus Rivera.
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I know you you have a limited amount of time to limit the city council because your term limit, But the the one thing you should do is allow order libraries to allow the Worker Justice Project and the street vendor project to have a office inside a room inside their inside order libraries, especially one on Fortieth Street and Fifth Avenue with the the Star Road of Nitros Foundation, one, the new one with the Terrence.
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I'm calling on the city council to to have a office dedicated to live dedicated to libaristas and street vendors inside every library location, which will allow them to be able to use the bathrooms and bathrooms and stuff like that and be educated and especially push for more more ice protections inside a library to make sure that nobody gets deported inside of a library.
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I think a library is somewhere that if need be safe, going under the preservation of two nonprofits, the Walker Justice Project and Street Bend project that they're gonna be preserved this year in this budget.
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They need to get this keep on getting the funding for their budget.
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At the same time, the city council needs to put that ebike charging hub outside the city hall, the delivery the hub outside city hall, which is what done by one one e a dump created by a black man named Chabad Stewart.
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And I'm calling on the commission
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Your time has expired.
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Thank you.
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Culture commissioner to make that happen.
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So thank you.
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And one more thing, can I go few more seconds, please?
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Can I get a few more seconds?
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Yeah.
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Like I said, they need this.
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This the workers' project needs this to be inside the city inside all the libraries.
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We need to protect our laboristas.
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We need to protect our street vendors, and the city council should allow street vendors to sell the sub inside the libraries.
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They need to be protected inside the libraries.
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That's one of one place that you know no matter what, you'll be you'll be saved inside the library.
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And we need more funding for we need to bring back the the the the private not was it?
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The public safety officers inside all the libraries that are contracted security to securitize in Allied Universal, bring back we need to increase the funding for this the the peace officers inside all the libraries.
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We need more peace officers in the library.
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They keep us safe.
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Peace officers in the library make me feel safe.
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I know that we, historically, are all libraries open.
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Shout out to the city council.
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Shout out to you, Connie Rivera.
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I love you because you do a great job as a as a chair of the culture committee.
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I'm a miss you.
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And, like I said, we need to make this happen.
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Fund our security officer.
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Fund our public safety officers.
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The one that were the the one the one that look like cops.
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Fund them.
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We need to keep make sure they're funded.
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I love them all.
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So
Carlina Rivera
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Thank you.
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Shout out to you, Cody and Revver.
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Make it happen.
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And, like Thank you.
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Take care.
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I know I know you gotta go, but but shout out to shout out all the libraries.
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Shout out to Book and Public Library.
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Shout out to the New York Public Library.
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Shout out to everybody.
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Shout out Laura Krumbo.
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Shout out to everybody, man.
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So
Carlina Rivera
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Thank you.
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Appreciate you.
Christopher Leon Johnson
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From libraries from the libraries, from the street vendors.
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I love the Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Your time is way expired.
Deborah Allman
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I'm OD.
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Okay.
Carlina Rivera
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Thank you.
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Thank Thank you.
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You.
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I'm OD.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.