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Expanded services and partnerships with city agencies
0:23:40
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Marx discusses proposals for expanded library services and highlights partnerships with various city agencies to provide additional services to New Yorkers.
- Proposal for $2 million to bring Sunday library services to more branches
- Partnership with HPD for a neighborhood tech help program for Section 8 tenants
- Pilot program with HPD to bring free internet access to up to 2,000 Section 8 tenants
- Collaboration with the Office of Immigrant Affairs to provide English language and support centers
- Emphasis on all services being provided for free and respecting all patrons
Anthony "Tony" Marx
0:23:40
The speaker has already spoken in her state of the city address eloquently to this and proposed an additional $2,000,000 to bring Sunday library services to more branches across the city, a topic that I know councilwoman Brewer has been passionately pushing for.
0:23:58
We welcome that partnership.
0:24:00
We are delighted to work with you all to get those kinds of results.
0:24:05
And that's only one example of the partnership that we're in with the city.
0:24:11
Recently, HPD announced a neighborhood tech help program with us to give direct outreach one on one to section eight tenants.
0:24:21
We're working with HPD as well who've offered us a given us a landmark 3 and a half million dollars for a pilot program to bring free Internet access to up to 2,000 section eight tenants.
0:24:34
Given what Brooklyn and Queens are already doing on that front, the fact that the digital divide remains such a problem in this city, the center of the world, is outrageous, and so we're delighted to continue, all of us, to continue to partner to address that.
0:24:52
We work with the office of immigrant affairs to provide a huge number, the the the greatest number in the city outside the schools and university, of 20 English language and support centers.
0:25:06
Everything we do for free, everything respects everyone who comes in the door.