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By: Megan McGibney<\/a><\/p>\n

Brooklyn saw its second City Charter Revision Hearing\u00a0take place at CUNY Medgar Evers College at the end of last month. It was a chance for Brooklynites and other New Yorkers to propose provisions\u00a0as the\u00a0charter goes through a revision\u00a0<\/a>on how the city’s government will be run.<\/p>\n

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The hearing at Medgar Evers was sparsely attended with about\u00a030 people in the auditorium. There were a few\u00a0more attending\u00a0via Zoom.<\/p>\n

Among the testimonies given, the most common surrounded\u00a0business and the city’s economy. The most common\u00a0proposal was about the\u00a0Minority-Women Owned-Business-Enterprises (MWBEs). Michael J. Garner, the city’s first Chief Diversity Business Owner,\u00a0 proposed creating an agency for MWBEs\u00a0outside\u00a0the city’s Small Business Services<\/a>\u00a0(SBS). He explained that creating such an agency would help with Mayor Eric Adams’ goals for MWBEs to obtain more city contracts.<\/p>\n

“We\u00a0encourage and we ask for your support in fulfilling the goals in the MWBE community,” said Garner. “So that the people in the City of New York can vote on this very important initiative of creating a single place where MWBE will be driven, and give us the ability to be held accountable. And so that the city of New York will work for all of its citizens in all of its\u00a0businesses.”<\/p>\n

Also supporting the idea of an MWBE agency was Assemblymember\u00a0Rodneyse\u00a0Bichotte Hermelyn (AD 42), the Chair of the Subcommittee on Oversight of MWBEs in the New York State Assembly. She told the commission\u00a0that a separate agency may do better with oversight than the SBS and the Comptroller’s office.<\/p>\n

“I think the MWBE agency would be a great way and\u00a0a great agency to do the reporting and grading of all agencies,” Bichotte Hermelyn said. “They’ll be able to monitor and manage the mentorship program throughout the city. It will streamline and help outreach and certification programs.”<\/p>\n

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The Assemblymember added that since traditional banks tend not to lend to minority-owned businesses, having an agency for MWBEs would allow for alternative financing for those businesses.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Another business and economy-oriented proposal\u00a0was for The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment\u00a0to have more authority to issue film\u00a0permits. Currently, the Commissioner of the SBS\u00a0gives the permits. Flatbush resident, Kwame Amoaku, the\u00a0Deputy Commissioner for the Film Office<\/a>, explained,\u00a0Charter 1301 (1)(r) “<\/a>has the potential to create problems during mayoral\u00a0transitions where there may be a period without a commissioner.”<\/p>\n

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While listening from the stage, Carlo Scissura, the\u00a0Chair of\u00a0the Charter Revision Commission\u00a0<\/a>commented on how there is only one business agency, the SBS, when there could have been others over the years. Scissura then said now is\u00a0time for a little cleaning up.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Some\u00a0proposals\u00a0were not business-oriented. There were two\u00a0women, Mona Davids and Irene Estrada-Rukaj, the latter who is running for NYS<\/a>\u00a0Senate District 36<\/a>\u00a0in the Bronx and Westchester. The two women proposed to repeal or amend the city’s sanctuary laws, citing the migrants who commit crimes as the reason. Another woman from Coney Island\u00a0suggested restoring\u00a0the city’s regional law enforcement. She explained if it never went away, there would be no Stop and Frisk, and “most of the politicians would end up in jail at this point.”<\/p>\n

At the end, Scissura\u00a0explained the hearings have no agenda and that the Commission listens to any topic mentioned.<\/p>\n

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The final public meeting is on\u00a0July 25th at Brooklyn’s Central Library.\u00a0<\/a>Afterward, the commission will consider all suggestions\u00a0and then vote on which ones should go\u00a0on the ballot during the next general election cycle on November 5.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

You can watch the hearing\u00a0on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Megan McGibney Brooklyn saw its second City Charter Revision Hearing\u00a0take place at CUNY Medgar Evers College at the end of last month. It was a chance for Brooklynites and other New Yorkers to propose provisions\u00a0as the\u00a0charter goes through a revision\u00a0on how the city’s government will be run. 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