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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson, Member of the Public
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Christopher Leon Johnson testifies calling for the defunding of Cure Violence nonprofits in New York City, specifically mentioning LifeCamp and Man Up Inc. He demands investigations into certain funding allocations and proposes restrictions on former public advocate employees working in the nonprofit sector.
- Calls for defunding all Cure Violence nonprofits, including LifeCamp and Man Up Inc.
- Demands investigation into a $1,600,000 contract given to the Flossy organization via Man Up Inc.
- Suggests allocating money to laboristas and the street vendor project for youth OSHA trainings and job trainings.
- Proposes a bill to prevent anyone who worked for the public advocate's office from working in the nonprofit sector for at least ten years.
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Yeah.
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Hello.
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My name is Christopher Leon Johnson.
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Thank you for having this testimony today.
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I'm here calling on the defunding of all Cure Violence nonprofits in the city of New York.
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I'm calling on the defunding of LifeCamp.
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I'm calling on the defunding of May Up Inc.
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I'm calling on an investigation of that $1,600,000 contract that was given to the Flossy organization via Man Up Inc that was given in the f y twenty five f y '20 '5 budget.
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I'm calling on investigation to Mercedes Narcisse for her allocation of $1,600,000 into Man Up Inc.
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For the FLASI organization.
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I'm gonna know what justified of getting $1,600,000 contract for f y twenty five.
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I'm calling on the city council to to look to ask Jabil Joel Jalo from the philosophy organization to have a special special hearing and ask him what justifies him to to collect all that money from $1,600,000 for a contract.
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And he needs to start answering, like, what justify him to what why he he can't get money through his own organization through only he had to go to Man Up Inc to get that money.
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One more thing is I'm calling on the the I'm calling on the the defunding all care bodies organizations in New York City because they do nothing for the city.
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This is nothing but a taxpayer scam and all they do is recruit these guys who come first out of jail to keep these guys compliant with the probation department and the New York State parole department.
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Majority of money goes to the executive board members and while the members get paid $20 an hour to do basically nothing and just so called so called stay out trouble, none of these guys get in trouble with even guns down life up.
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One more thing is that the city council needs to allocate money to the laboristas and the the the street vendor project for for cure for for, like because of the youth, because they have young members in their organization for OSHA trainings and OSHA trainings and job trainings for workers' project and street vendor project.
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And by the before like I said before, again, the city council, before they allocate money to man I know they might do anyway.
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Before they allocate money to Man Up Bank, they need to have a special hearing with, AT Mitchell and Jabril Jallal asking what what what is going on?
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What justify them to give all that money?
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Because what's going on here is that Man Up Ink is getting the money and that money is going to Jabir Jabir Jabir Jabir Jabir Jabir used to work for public the public advocate.
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And they they need to put a bill in the city council to prevent anybody that you work for public advocate office from working a nonprofit sector for at least ten years.
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So thank you so much and have a great day.
Sharon Brown
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Thank you.