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Closing remarks and calls for accountability
1:37:33
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The council member invites final comments from the family and a tenant representative. They express frustration with the current system and call for greater accountability from landlords and more proactive measures to ensure radiator safety.
- Annie Martinez, representing tenants, describes ongoing struggles with building maintenance and ineffective complaint systems
- Bessie Kimmelfeld emphasizes the need for landlord accountability and annual radiator inspections
- The family hopes that changes resulting from this tragedy will save lives in the future
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:37:33
Thank you.
1:37:34
Thank you so much.
1:37:34
Is there anything that that you wanna add?
1:37:39
Or miss Anne, on behalf of the tenants
Annie Martinez
1:37:42
Talking on behalf of all the tenants.
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:37:44
You, Mike.
1:37:44
I'm sorry.
Annie Martinez
1:37:45
I'm talking on behalf of all the tenants.
1:37:48
It's we've been fighting for years.
1:37:51
All commissioners, councils, they've been in our building.
1:37:55
Nothing happened on this landlord.
1:37:57
I don't know what they're doing.
1:37:58
The building is falling apart in our building.
1:38:02
I ain't even scared of my building where I live.
1:38:04
It's gonna collapse anytime.
1:38:06
We have been doing so many three one one calls.
1:38:09
Nothing happened other.
Bessie Kimmelfeld
1:38:13
And we just We really want accountability.
1:38:15
We want landlords to be held accountable for maintaining their apartments.
1:38:22
Tenants are scared, but not necessarily always able to make the right complaints to the right people.
1:38:29
And not the right people aren't hearing the issues properly and making the proper changes.
1:38:35
So we just want landlords to be held accountable.
1:38:38
We really want active change and real change to be made here.
1:38:43
And we really would like to see that radiators are annually inspected and that people's lives and babies' lives are saved as a result of, you know, make Bin Salman's death, not something in vain, but, you know, saving people's lives would really make it more meaningful.
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:39:03
I'm sorry.
1:39:04
Thank you.
1:39:04
Thank you, Alex.
1:39:05
And, Vessey, I wanna turn it over to council member, Denowitz, and then we'll we'll come back today.
Barbara Manu
1:39:09
Okay.