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Council member inquires about sufficiency of Parks Department resources
2:16:11
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Council Member Shekar Krishnan asks a follow-up question about whether the Parks Department has enough resources to support its workers.
- Seeks confirmation on the adequacy of current resources
- Allows the testifier to elaborate on the need for more support
- Provides an opportunity for the testifier to emphasize the importance of additional funding
Shekar Krishnan
2:16:11
So in your testimony, in your view, you don't feel that the resources that the Parks Department currently has are enough to support the workers doing the work every single day out there?
Dilcy Benn
2:16:20
Not enough at all.
2:16:22
Not enough at all.
2:16:23
We need as much as we can get.
2:16:25
And like I said, if they give us the 1%, that'll put us to where we used to be.
2:16:30
Okay.
2:16:30
We never been over.
2:16:31
We always been behind and every year we we're still behind.
2:16:35
We we the the people that we have now, people that they're trying to get back from what we had years ago.
2:16:41
I but they always want us to do more with less.
2:16:43
I always say that but like I said my people do this every day but you have a lot of New Yorkers right now especially the way prices are rising, food is rising and don't try to buy no eggs.
2:16:54
Okay?
2:16:55
We need help.
2:16:57
Like I said, it would help them have some type of stability.
2:17:01
Like I said, a lot of people came off of welfare to pop worker to CPW.
2:17:06
Now the CPWs are being trained to be garnish of pruners.
2:17:09
We, you know, we're trying to advance our members to do more with the with the help that we have, but we can use as many as we can get.