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Council member uses personal analogy and appeals for continued stakeholder engagement
2:33:17
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Council Member Pierina Sanchez uses a personal analogy about parenting to emphasize the need for both 'carrots and sticks' in policy-making. She appeals to stakeholders for continued engagement and collaboration in refining the street vending legislation.
- Sanchez uses an analogy of parenting her children to illustrate the need for balanced approach in policy-making
- She emphasizes the importance of having both incentives ('carrots') and enforcement ('sticks')
- The council member expresses gratitude for stakeholders' input and implores them to continue participating in the dialogue
Pierina Sanchez
2:33:17
Thank you.
2:33:18
I took I was taking vigorous notes.
2:33:21
I really wanna appreciate that.
2:33:23
I guess I I just wanna just link from my heart and just say this out loud.
2:33:27
Right?
2:33:27
I you know because you probably heard her crying.
2:33:30
I have two babies.
2:33:31
One is five months old.
2:33:32
She calls us shots.
2:33:33
What she wants, she gets.
2:33:34
Right?
2:33:34
But the two year old, the two and a half year old, there's only so much sternness that I can do to get him to behave the way I want.
2:33:43
Right?
2:33:43
It's bedtime.
2:33:44
If I just tell him it's bedtime, it's it's not gonna work.
2:33:47
Right?
2:33:47
There has to be a back and forth.
2:33:49
And not to infantilize this situation, but to to bring it to the policy making realm, we have to have carrots and sticks.
2:33:57
We can't just have the sticks.
2:33:58
I agree the sticks are important, and we gotta fix the way that we lay out the sticks.
2:34:02
Right?
2:34:02
Pick up sticks seven eights.
2:34:04
Lay them straight.
2:34:04
Okay.
2:34:04
We have to fix the way that we enforce, right?
2:34:08
But this aspect about the licensing, I really want to continue conversation with you all because I think it can go such a long way to changing behavior the way that when I sit down and I reason with my two year old or I try and I tell him mommy's really tired, can you please help me and go to bed?
2:34:29
Every now and then he's like, alright mom, fine.
2:34:32
So I just wanna thank you for the ongoing engagement, for the good ideas, and, you know, really just, like, ask and and, you know, implore that's the word I'm looking for.
2:34:43
Emplore you to to continue coming to the table and helping us to get to a better place.