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Council Member Paladino calls for increased funding and better outreach to veterans
0:55:33
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Council Member Vickie Paladino strongly advocates for increased funding for veterans' services and a comprehensive media campaign to reach veterans. She emphasizes that the current $5 million budget is insufficient and calls for a serious approach to inform veterans about available services.
- Paladino stresses the need for a large-scale social media and advertising campaign to reach veterans who are not self-identifying.
- She criticizes the current approach as inadequate, comparing the potential impact to successful advertising campaigns in the private sector.
- The council member urges for immediate action, stating that without proper funding and outreach, current efforts are "a waste of time."
Vickie Paladino
0:55:33
It's not so much equate, question as it is a statement.
0:55:36
I've been serving on this committee now for quite a while, and we circle back to the same thing again and again and again.
0:55:43
$5,000,000 is not enough money, period.
0:55:45
What do we get from the state?
0:55:47
Not enough money, period.
0:55:48
We wanna know how do we reach our veterans.
0:55:50
How do we reach our veterans on a $5,000,000 budget?
0:55:54
We need a huge social media and media campaign that costs money.
0:56:01
We need to be able to inform our veterans that are not self identifying in a very, very forward way.
0:56:10
Hosting Barclays is great, but how do they know what's going on at Barclays?
0:56:14
This is absolutely ridiculous.
0:56:17
We need social media to reach our our our vets.
0:56:23
It's as simple as that.
0:56:24
It's an ad campaign, guys.
0:56:26
What's what's the mystery here?
0:56:28
What is the mystery?
0:56:30
We need to get to them.
0:56:31
The best way to get to them is an ad campaign.
0:56:34
You get people to change from drinking Coke to diet Coke.
0:56:38
I mean, we could get our veterans to self identify if they know what they get at the end of the rainbow.
0:56:45
There's a bunch of stuff that's waiting for them that's not there because they're not there.
0:56:51
So let's let's let's call it what it is.
0:56:54
More money and let's get serious about doing a camp an ad campaign to get these guys and girls out there to make them aware of what's available.
0:57:04
You could, you know, fire a shot into the into the, forest.
0:57:08
Who's gonna hear it?
0:57:10
If a tree falls, who hears the tree fall?
0:57:14
So it's the same thing.
0:57:15
It's ridiculous.
0:57:18
Get real with it and get serious with it or this is a waste of time.
0:57:22
Thank you.