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Council Member Brooks-Powers opens the budget hearing
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Council Member Selvena N. Brooks-Powers opens the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure's hearing on the fiscal 2026 preliminary budget and the fiscal 2025 preliminary mayor's management report. She introduces herself as the chair and acknowledges the presence of other council members.
- The hearing focuses on the Metropolitan Transit Authority, Department of Transportation, Taxi and Limousine Commission, and Department of Design and Construction.
- Council Member Farrah Lewis is noted as being present.
- Brooks-Powers quotes civil rights icon Hazel Dukes to emphasize the importance of their work.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
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Good morning, and welcome to the committee on transportation and infrastructure's hearing on the fiscal twenty twenty six preliminary budget and the fiscal twenty twenty five preliminary mayor's management report for the Metropolitan Transit Authority Transportation Authority, Department of Transportation and Taxi and Limousine Commission and the Department of Design and Construction.
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My name is Silvina Brooks Powers and I chair this committee.
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I would like to acknowledge my fellow council members who are present here today.
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We're joined by council member Farrah Lewis.