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Council member asks about reasons for vendor tickets
5:06:23
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Council Member Pierina Sanchez inquires about the reasons vendors receive tickets. The vendors, through an interpreter, explain that they believe there's no justification for the tickets and the high amounts they have to pay.
- Examples include a $4,000 fine for selling tamales without a license for a month
- Another vendor was fined $2,000 for selling water
- Vendors selling vitamins and toothpaste, classified as food, were fined $2,000
Pierina Sanchez
5:06:23
And the question is for tickets that they have received, do they know what the cause is?
UNKNOWN
5:06:53
Thank you.
5:06:55
Okay.
5:07:00
Thank you.
5:07:01
We believe that there's no justification for the tickets and the amounts that have to be paid for them.
5:07:07
For example, the tickets prices go from one of our colleagues that had to pay $4,000 for selling tamales illegitimate without a license for a whole month to another colleague that was taxed $2,000 just for selling water.
5:08:06
And also I want to say that some of our colleagues that are selling vitamins that they are supposedly classified as food.
5:08:16
They've been taxed $2,000 for that and also for toothpaste.
5:08:22
I don't really know where this came from, but they're actually labeled as food.
5:08:27
And I want to say that So I want to bring your attention to this because we do not deserve this as vendors.