 Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Brennan McGuire. I'm Chief Counsel to the Mayor and City Hall We are here today for another important labor announcement We've already reached historic contract agreements with DC 37 and the PBA Today we're proud to announce another tentative agreement that will impact one of the most important groups Here in the city work cities workforce That is the women and the men who serve our city's children So without further delay, I'll now turn it over to our mayor Eric Adams Thanks so much Brendan nay jock and Michael President of the U of T and your team really fighting on behalf of your members and New York is because your your members are New York is and we Are fighting for our children and we want to be clear that how important this moment is and how much has gone into Ensuring that we can get this right and To make sure that we're able to move the city forward And before we even start the conversation about this contract as you know Probably my proudest appointment police commissioner Kishan soon is leaving after 18 months as the police commissioner and I cannot thank her enough. I remember When we started in January Seeing what this city was going through many of you Lying these halls often talking about the level of violence homicides shootings Just about every major crime category was moving in the wrong direction The two of us was we were in hospitals where we saw the family members of police officers who were shot Officer Rivera and Mora who lost their lives as well as those who were shot that did not Lose their lives what was seriously injured Remember being together when the 11 month old baby was shot and sitting there speaking with the mother And a number of crime scenes that I responded to over and over again So I kept a firsthand look at what was happening on our streets but the commissioner was there 24 hours seven day a week of Running the largest police department in the country And I was proud that day when I appointed her she came in with the hammer and she broke the glass ceiling of being the first not only women But one who just led this department from the front and we're going to continue to Move this department forward with the amazing men and women that are part of our police department But I wanted to just really take the moment as we start this conversation to thank her for her service to the city and For being there during the most difficult times in the city and we're seeing a new city the city is moving in the right direction and We believe that we're going to continue that pathway To make sure this city is a city where we can raise healthy children and families and speaking on our children This agreement today sends a real signal that publication public Education is one of the most important things we do as a city and as a society because if you don't Educate you will incarcerate This morning I was on Rikers Island talking to a group of young people who are graduating from Rikers Island School receiving their diploma and many of them have been abandoned for far too long and the Chancellor and I with the partnership of the UFT and the CSA and all those professionals in the school system Need to ensure they have the resources and the proper pay So that they don't have to worry about their children at home as they educate children in the classroom I'm a blue collar mayor. I've made it clear that we were going to ensure that our City employees receive the salaries and benefits that they deserve because I am one of them And I know what it is to go and fight for a contract To fight for the proper health care and the items that you need And I'm proud to announce that the city of New York has reached a tentative Five-plus-year contract agreement with the United Federation of Teachers That provides substantial wage increases for the people who teach Support and safeguard our children and secures a fair deal for taxpayers as well The agreement will cover approximately a hundred and twenty thousand Municipal employees and include annual raises employee retention payments and a ratification bonus all of which will help retain our educators which we are losing at an alarming rate and It will ensure that we are able to provide the Educational support year after year this contract also established which I'm really proud of and I want to thank the Chancellor For the vision of establishing a virtual learning program that will create new opportunities for our students Included those who want the ability to take classes at non-traditional times Like evenings and weekends as well as those whom Traditional in-person schedules don't work for For them for an example some of our young people are working some of them have jobs Some of them are dealing with real obligations that a traditional classroom setting does not address The tentative agreement is retroactive beginning on September 14th 2022 and expiring on November 28 2027 Is a great deal for Rokas and as I stated is fair for city taxpayers and it would not have happened if it wasn't for the willingness of Michael Mogru and the UFT and our team of being led by our commissioner of the of labor and My legal counsel and Jocelyn the entire team coming together to come into a place of yes The input from Chancellor Bank and the dedicated members of this great union allowed us to land this plane and we're doing it today if The ratification goes through the contract agreement underscores how important educators are I see them all over the city and They asked for a fair contract. I told them we had a fair contract with DC 37 With the PBA and you better believe we're going to get it with the UFT as well. And so particularly for Miss Johnson who's an educator? I promise you and I deliver it for you. So I know you're watching this right now The administration will also stand with broken people throughout this city And as I indicated over and over again and never let you forget I'm probably one of the few modern-day mayors That was a member of a union. I know what unions do for this city In the backbone of this city, and we must ensure the challenges that they have faced it Should not be a hurdle of ensuring they receive the necessary benefits that they deserve So I want to thank the UFT and my team for bringing this contract to The working people of our school system. Congratulations to you all And now to discuss the tentative agreement in a bit more detail, I'll introduce our Labor Commissioner Renee Campion Thanks Brendan I'm very pleased to have reached this significant settlement with Michael and the UFT I want to thank the mayor again as he has continued to put his trust in me to represent him as his chief negotiator I also want to thank the Chancellor for his support and ensuring that his team and my team work so closely together These past nine months. I also want to thank the entire city leadership team first Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright Chief of Staff Camille Varlak Chief Advisor Ingress Lewis Martin, and of course, I want to thank Brendan Brendan Brendan for his tremendous support over these past 18 months We've done a lot together and we'll continue to do just a little bit more As we get through this summer I also want to thank the budget director Jacques Jiha and his team Ken Godner Kerry gow for their support and difficult work date working days and nights and days and nights And by the way more days and more nights I want to thank Michael and his team one of the important and most essential parts of the labor relations process Is this process that people sort of externally to this world that we live in of labor relations? Is that we spend a lot of time talking to each other? We talk and we talk and we talk and we talk and people are like aren't you finished talking yet? We're done and we say no no there's more talking and that's a good thing and This administration stands with that and my relationships with the union leaders have proven that out We'll continue to have respectful working relationship into the future. I Also just want to thank my negotiating team my first deputy commissioner Dan Pollock my entire negotiating team at OLR Including Tamara Lake and Matt Campese who were instrumental in resolving this contract They were there for these months and months and months of subcommittee meetings that we held Which which did seem to go on and they were just many many dozens and dozens of them and of course I want to thank Regina Fuchs the chief of our research team at OLR This agreement with the UFT is pattern conforming in the city's round of negotiations. It brings our settlement numbers to Nearly 67 percent, which is more than two-thirds of the entire public sector workforce And let me go through some of the details The term of the contract is from September 14th 22 through November 28th 20 27 that's 62 months and 15 days The general wage increases effective September 14th 22 a 3% general wage increase Effective January 18th 24 a 3% general wage increase effective January 18th 25 a 3% wage increase all of these are compounded of course effective September 14th 2025 a 3.25 percent general wage increase and in the final year of the contract effective September 14th 2026 a 3.5 percent general wage increase There's also the ratification bonus of three thousand dollars to all active members on the date of ratification and as the mayor mentioned For the first time there is a payment that we are calling a recurring retention payment that will be paid in May of Each year starting in 2024 in 2024 there'll be a four hundred dollar Recurring payment that will be paid to every member of the UFT the 2025 in May also there'll be a seven hundred dollar payment and In 2026 and every year thereafter. There will be a one thousand dollar recurring payment to aid in recruitment and retention I just want to give you a few numbers regarding the teacher salaries So a teacher who starts off with their bachelors the minimum salary prior to this agreement. They were earning $61,070 by the end of this contract the minimum salary for a teacher with a BA will be seventy two thousand three hundred and forty nine dollars That includes the recurring payment a teacher with a masters starts out started out prior to this contract at sixty eight thousand six hundred and fifty two dollars by the end of the contract that teacher with the masters Will be making eighty one thousand two hundred and one dollars to start and Finally those teachers with the longest years of experience or whoever masters plus thirty with twenty two years of experience Before this contract started. They were making one twenty eight six hundred and fifty seven dollars by the end of this contract That salary will be one fifty one two hundred and seventy one dollars In addition to that as the mayor has mentioned there are very other there are many other historic parts of this contract the virtual learning program Is a very important part of this contract. It's something that we probably spent Most of our time working on together with the uft and all of the city representatives It will be as the mayor said supplementing students in the classroom. It's not in lieu of student teaching in the classroom It is in supplementing it And it provides better options some more flexible options for students who require it There will also be parent engagement and as a result of the virtual learning will be able to do parent engagement Which was already an existing part of the contract going back years That will be able to be done with parents remotely on Evenings and weekends. This is very important to parents Who obviously cannot who were working during the day are not able to have the flexibility for the most part to talk to the teachers of their Of their kids so being able to remote work Remote in for parent engagement on evenings and weekends is a tremendous benefit And then I'll defer to the chancellor in his remarks about some of the other programs including the student pathways So with that and as I mentioned more than two-thirds of the contracts are settled I look forward to negotiating with the rest of the unions There are probably almost a hundred specific bargaining units still to be settled But again that is about a third of the workforce So we've taken another big step forward and I'm looking forward to negotiating those contracts with the rest of the workforce Thank you And now to hear about how this tentative agreement will impact the Department of Education and all of the adults and children within that The city's public school system. I'll introduce our Chancellor David Banks Good afternoon everyone I'm very happy to be here. I think this is a great great day First of all, I want to thank our mayor For not only his vision, but also his directing directives that we get this done and And and we've had some amazing hard-working teams who worked around the clock to do this and Michael you drive a hard bargain and you do it on behalf of all the teachers around this city And we want to thank you so much for being a great great partner in doing this work I also want to acknowledge a couple people that are on my team as well I'll lead negotiator Kim or Ward who is here today Kim. Thank you so much for your work and your leadership in this space And and thank you to our first deputy Chancellor Daniel Weisberg. Thank you so much Dan Lot of lot of hours that have been put into this and making this agreement Come to fruition and also also just want to acknowledge also the Superintendents representing every district around New York City are here with us here today And I'm just thankful that they're all here as well. Thank you all for your leadership This agreement this tentative agreement also establishes, which I think is a really big deal New York City public schools as the first major school system in the nation To offer an expansive virtual learning program ultimately available to all high school Students and at least some middle school students the virtual learning program will give students access to a much broader set of course offerings across the city and The ability to take classes at non-traditional times like evenings and weekends We learned during the pandemic That some students Especially non-traditional students Benefited from the additional flexibility in their schedule Students who were at risk of dropping out Were able to continue their coursework on a schedule that works best for them This expands those types of opportunities across the entire system Crucially it also allows educators to work virtually in support of those students becoming experts in the craft of virtual learning The days of simply working in the classroom in the four walls of the school are over This agreement allows us to do what the mayor has said from the very beginning of this administration Which is to reimagine How we even do school in the first place and to think out of the box with new and innovative and creative ways to engage all of our young people So this contract takes the best of what we've learned over the last three years and it refines those takeaways From teaching our kids to read with our NYC reads To innovative career pathways programs to virtual learning New York City public schools are the places to be for cutting-edge education and This contract represents that So in closing I simply want to say to every educator and teacher who's hearing me now I want to take this opportunity to say thank you Thank you for the hard work and never ceasing dedication that you show every day to our youngest New Yorkers You are critical members of our school communities and our city and I'm proud To be able to express my gratitude to you on this day It is very very important that this administration Have a good working relationship with the United Federation of Teachers and all of our unions And I'm just really proud that we are working very very closely with Michael and his team Together and I've said this to him many many times if we work really well together We can finally crack the code We can get beyond the point of contention and one-upsmanship and Seeing who's gonna be the winner on this day or that day every one of our kids can win But we have to work together in order to make that happen and Disagreement is the beginning of what it looks like. I want to thank Michael Mogru for His dedication to making this happen. Thank you everyone and now to close this out I'll introduce the city's partner in this effort UFT president Michael Mogru Thank You Brendan and I want to thank everyone who was involved in this endeavor Negotiating a contract is not an easy thing and it's not and it's a ton of labor involved with us I want to thank both of the commissioners both Renee and Jock. Thank you. I want to thank the DOE team for spending many many many late nights having difficult conversation and I want to thank my of course my UFT team who Understand that this is the important piece of paper for us all But I want to start first with the chancellor and the mayor The clarity of vision The fact that this chancellor and this mayor both said we need to get literacy right And said enough we're not allowing anyone to figure this out on their own anymore. We need to first get literacy right That is the foundation that we all as educators know will make the big difference But then this contract then reflects the next pieces How do we make our school system? Adaptable how do we allow the flexibility as students grow that we are meeting them where they need to be met instead of telling them you need to come here and If you can't come here, then too bad you will fail Those days are over We learned a lot during the pandemic. We learned what works in virtual learning and what doesn't work We learned that you don't put a camera in the middle of a classroom and then try to just push it out It does not work But we also learned things that really do work and that's what's inside of this agreement And we want to be able to tell a child if you want to if you fell behind in ninth grade And we know this is a critical piece. It's just as critical as literacy you fall behind in ninth grade Don't worry you now have access to take classes online So you can get your credits back to get you on track because that brings your put your ability to graduate a much higher rate And we also want to know the children who are facing so many the challenges this city The school system just doesn't work for them the way it's designed We want to give them access and we also want the children who say you know I want to accelerate and I want to move faster We give them access to all of this and we want equity We don't want the it to be dependent upon if you if a school was lucky enough to get an AP teacher or a physics teacher Only the students in that school can get that class. We want to open up that equity to all And that's what you see inside of this agreement and to the teachers of New York City This is the hardest and most challenging school district in the country to teach it Hands down. I travel this country. It is the most challenging most diverse, but our teachers love it our guidance counselors love it Therapists Social workers psychologists they take that challenge on they wear that badge proudly I am a New York City educator. You can not everyone could teach here But if you learn how to work here and you can work it you can teach anywhere And that is what the educators in no matter what has been thrown at them the pandemic a Large influx of us children seeking asylum. They don't shy away from these challenges. What do they do? They say we need to organize even more We need to run clothing drives and food pantries and everything else and we want to help these children That is the beauty of the work of the teachers and all educators in this city They take that passion and love every day into those buildings and yes, it's frustrating It is extremely frustrating at times and we always want everything to be perfect and it will not But we said to them in this contract. We heard you loud and clear one thing about teachers. They're not quiet They were loud and clear We want we want to be given respect that we can do the work You're asking us to do and we don't need to be micromanaged The mayor always says this we want the people we hire to work to be able to do what we hired them for When not here to feed bureaucracies and that's what we see in this contract They want and more time to actually do the work that brings meaning to the job and actually helps children to do that And they wanted to be able to see that they can live in New York City and afford it for themselves and their Families And we have that Renee spoke about the top salary, but the more significant part to me is When I started as president it took 16 years for you to make a hundred thousand dollars in New York City and That was a big problem and we are losing more and more teachers this contract If it is ratified and at the end of it by the end of the eighth year the teachers of New York City will now be at a hundred thousand dollars They will have their retention bonus whatever we're calling it at this moment And that goes on forever in perpetuity and we're saying to all of our titles and Every member whether you're in the first year or your 2050 year New York City is saying that we appreciate you We recognize the challenges that you take on every day and you will receive a thousand dollars every May for that And that is what the teachers and all of the people who work in our schools deserve so to the chancellor and to the mayor I I fully support your vision and I am glad we were able to get this done And I do believe when you have a tough process you land up with a better product And that's what we now have here today and to the uft members We will we will do our process to send it to you for ratification and God bless you all for what you do for the children of the city each and every day Okay, that's okay, right There is not any additional agreement other than the economics that we've outlined about health insurance health insurance remains as it is So we were negotiating with this union the uft The municipal labor committee is who I we actually negotiate with on all things health care So those are the conversations that we would be having there This is something we deal with a lot and I know there's a lot of a different information out there I will tell you this the unions and the city Are doing something that nobody else is doing in terms of a labor management relationship in this country We are not allowing insurance companies to just dump High premiums on us. We are not allowing hospitals to just get away with overbilling and overcharging. We are aggressively Negotiating with all parties because the goal of the unions and the city is that we will maintain a premium-free health care system We do not give up our benefits We use it in our negotiations people say oh, it's cheaper It's only cheaper because we bargain better and we're not getting rid of our benefits I wish the rest of America would do what we're doing here in New York City Because health care is a crisis and it is destroying the pocketbooks of so many families across this country. No It's more about Look, it's how you use your time and how do you use it effectively the virtual piece of this contract is going to be Quite impressive when it's a fully up and running because it does allow great more flexibility We still do what will do our traditional summer schools Which will be there and in terms of time itself. It's now you you know, you might have a teacher working three periods one day in school Personally and then they might be teaching two periods at six or seven o'clock at night So what we've done is create flexibility so it works for the student Multi-billion dollars No, no it does not and sometimes I think people forget when I talk about taxpayers. I'm talking about teachers also their taxpayers The power professionals Those who are city employees they want to protect their tax dollars at the same time And so this does not deal with the class size the law was passed as always We're going to comply with the law as long as you still work for the department for the Department of Education of New York City Yes, you don't retire and continue to get it René do you want to explain rate and how that works? The fun times the fun the fun part so so a recurring payment Is this payment is not unlike other payments where people get Longevity increases they receive different differentials for different things that is in in perpetuity. I'm sorry So there are different differentials that we negotiate that are not one-time cash payments This is not a one-time cash payment. This is a recurring payment It was costed as part of as a rate increase that goes up Continues year after year after year and that's how it was costed and that's what was how it was funded internally within the contract This is This is the first time we've negotiated this sort of payment for the UFT. Yes It's also the first time we had a mayor who was a union member that I could And the chancellor can go through it, but I don't know if many of you remember in the campaign trail That I stated that good teachers can teach a larger body of people And I became you know go back and look at that when I made that statement how I was attacked by many people But you have good quality teachers and I think Michael you alluded to that you have good quality teachers That are only in one school building teaching one group of people Colleges are different now. So really would the chancellor figured out We're going to prepare our children for what they want to expect many of these colleges are going to a remote learning This is really cutting-edge stuff that the UFT and the chancellor were able to come together on of what teaching is going to look like in the future and How you take that great teacher and have a wider pool of young people who could learn from from their knowledge particularly The accelerated learners the seller accelerated learners Really giving them that opportunity is amazing and those who have many of our young people are living a different lifestyle That the traditional classroom setting is just not fitting it up the chancellor Not much more that I could add other than to say that I think the seeds of this one fact planted by the mayor I think the concrete Conversations happened between my Michael and myself just saying you know an opportunity to reimagine And it's not just a reimagined experience for kids. It's a reimagined experience for teachers as well And and so when you want to really focus on how to make the profession Respected at an even higher level you have to engage in new and creative ways for teachers to even be able to teach and And I think this is this is 21st century thinking With the first major school district in the nation that is even taking this on I credit Michael so much really for for being a willing partner on this And we're looking many years down the line And I think once our teachers and our principles wrap their arms and their minds around this The opportunities that the places that they are going to take us that we've not even been thinking about I Think are just just tremendous And that's what I meant earlier when I made the point that I said the days of just the brick-and-mortar Being in the four walls of the classroom are over on the world has changed and it is moving very very quickly and And it's good, you know kudos to everybody involved here that this contract represents the beginning of of being able to represent a new experience And I remember I remember one day chance of miles across the street Showing a group of educators the first original Telephone Alexander Graham Bell did and I showed them the classroom. I held up both pitches I say here's the original telephone here is the classroom at that time and then I stated Here's where the foam is now. Here's the classroom the classroom was the same the foam went to a smartphone But we're still using dumb environments to keep our children prepared for the future We can't educate children based on Alexander Graham Bell when we have Apple That's what we are thinking about and these are bold moves initiatives and listen Look, you're not gonna appreciate what I'm doing until I'm done You're gonna look back and say you know this guy was just ahead of what other people wanted to stay This is New York. We lead from the front and that is what this chancellor and This union president is doing with this bold initiative. And you know what it's not gonna be perfect the first time You know, I'm perfectly imperfect But we're dedicated and that is how we're going to get stuff done Well, the virtual learning is the things that we learned during the pandemic We it's a whole different instructional style that we learned is to be effective It's not that it's a different instructional approach than being a class of regular classroom teacher So we had to put language is flexible inside of it because we're we're all as the mayor said We all know we're gonna learn as we keep moving this on and we want to be able to build that into it So that's the language that you will see in there and we're gonna we're gonna slow We're gonna bring it up with 25% of the high schools will start one year this this coming year And then we go right up to 50% if they want to do it. We're also gonna have a virtual basically a virtual city-wide school That's what we want to be able to have students can register in with their guidance counselors register right into that school And if they want to take classes again accelerate make up or they just want to switch the time that they want to take their classes So it really was creating that language that we realized and of things we did during the pandemic I don't think people realized that during the pandemic. We were constantly doing new agreements to meet whatever challenges we were facing So there were dozens and dozens of Agreements that were done at different times throughout the pandemic to ensure that we were doing things the right way and protecting children and teachers So that's what you see inside of it is what we've learned through that experience and the flexibility They not disappearing anyway Michael's still gonna be the union president. So you have another question you can catch it topics Yes, hi So we are content the status is that we're continuing in mediation with the union with the the union itself and the mediator The mediator has hung on hung on with us. I think we believe when you go started negotiate Mediating in August of 22. It is now June of 23. There's actually a mediation session next week So we will continue to work with the mediator to try and come to a settlement agreement I have confidence in the commissioner Today, I think that as I stated it was my one of my proudest appointments to be able to Find a woman who I stated when I was campaigning. I wanted I wanted to show the expertise of How women in law enforcement Can actually run the largest police department in the country and by doing so a noun I think that that the tide is is rising boats all over the city and I think anytime I had the opportunity to talk about Commissioner Sewell it has always been with just glad glaring admiration of her ability of how she turned around the Rial in the department and it was a tough challenge. All of us knew what was going on in the city when I took office January 1st 2022 and she took those tough challenges and Never lost confidence in her always thought she had the ability to do the job I'll figure out what I'm going to do. You know, I need to continue the success of the department We have more work to do. We got to get these glas under control We we appear to have gotten violent crime under control glas are just really driving our numbers And they're repeated offenders as I stated we need help with extreme recidivist But I'll make the right decision for the department. Listen, New Yorkers have to be safe and I've always stated over and over again the prerequisite to prosperity is public safety and justice That is what I must do as the mayor of the city of New York It is my responsibility to keep New Yorkers safe And I'm going to do that and we will put the right team to do so and the right team has done that She put a good foundation in place I Don't you know, I don't go into private conversations on what I have with You know, my commissioners and others I was very clear to her that are you can stay into you ready to do something else Said that over and over again to her I not only did I believe she was a great professional, but I just like that as a person I just thought that she was extremely impressive from the first day that I interviewed her Believe she had all the tools I need it of right now to turn around the morale of the department to be able to Manage and be just poised under pressure That's what we needed because you're inundated as the police commissioner over and over and over again And she was just poised, you know, you know, I'm just happy that I had her for those 18 months Okay, first let's go to the management Concern I have three hundred and two thousand employees my last catch account My style is a very unique style because of the unique perspective I bring and so in administrations on every level presidential governor gubernatorial City people come and go, you know, you don't sign up and say I'm a lifer You know, you come you provide your expertise you lay the foundation and then you go on to do other things That's nothing wrong with that and I have a rule do not stand in the way of a person's Desire to pursue their careers. I've always stated that now what's unique about My administration which is going to be part of my Portfolio when I be in the Museum of the City of New York and I look back on this administration is that I am The only mayor and probably I don't know who's the last way I think being that has actually worked in a city agency. I Know city government and so when I sit down with my DOE Chancellor when I sit down with the Department of Parks when I sit down with everyone I know what is happening every other mayor had to turn over of Those agencies and allow people to just run them the way they desire. That's not how I function New York is elected me to be the mayor part of being elected to mayor. They want diversity They want ingenuity. They want to make sure government is responding to them And you know listen mommy said if you don't inspect what you expect is so suspect and so I constantly inspect all the time That's how I function. That's how I operate. That's how we get the product that we're getting That's how we're able to settle union contracts because I'm watching what is happening in labor That's how we're able to bring down crime. That's how we're able to improve our educational system I'm watching the product that New York is asked me to do as the mayor of the city of New York And so some people will say that's a management problem. I don't I say is that listen I'm a work harder than every New York in the city to get the product that we deserve as taxpayers. I Have to read it. I that must have happened while I was Well, you know, I don't know why people think the federal prison system is Is successful I'm just I'm curious that people believe that the federal prison system is the model for prison systems Because I don't hear that, you know, I hear just the opposite and so people think years of Dysfunctionality is going to be fixed because of receiver. That's just not making sense to me I do know this. I know if you compare our 18 months To the previous eight years you are seeing a qualitative difference I've inherited a department where overwhelming number of Employees were out sick that has turned around Inmate on inmate violence was up inmate on violence on officers were up the conditions were Problematic so I find it hard to believe that a few months ago People looked at what was happening on right kids and saying that these guys are moving in the right direction What happened in a few months? That's we're thinking differently. So I have to read what came out of the court But we're going to continue to do what we have doing. I've been doing and that is moving right is for for it Right kids was a mess. I don't know where all of this creative thinking is coming from that all of a sudden Right cuz was this beautiful place? No, it was a mess Commissioner Molina went in and corrected and moved us into a place of a dysfunctional system I was telling someone the other day being the mayor of the city of New York. You can never be surprised every day there is a new venture a new journey and You know, I'm a drilling and drunkie. I love every part of being the mayor of this city helping people every day I'm never going to get in the way of people pursuing the things they want to pursue And so my question to someone when that's it before me and say I want to try something else My only question to them is how do I help? What do I do to help you? You help me. How do I help you and that is out of the we have 70 something agencies Added on 70 something agencies. I think we have four or five Commissioners that then that left that's not a bad ratio, you know So people would think that all of a sudden people are running from the door. Let's do the math people are staying here and Helping and continue to help make the city the city that we all believe in The commissioners here until the end of June. She wants a smooth transition to whomever is going to take a position She wants to be as helpful as possible. She's made it clear that That she wants to you know be there to help this. She says she loves the city. This is the city. She loves I'm sorry, she told you that Did she tell you that? Oh It's been reported. Okay, so she didn't tell you that you would you acknowledge that She did not tell you that So because it's reported You automatically assume that that must be fact. I Mean, that's problematic for me There's a whole lot of things that are reported especially on Twitter, you know, listen if Commissioners who wants to tell you why she's she's leaving then you should speak to her She's not disappearing but for you to assume that well She's leaving because of ABC and D or that Brendan McGuire is Leaving for a reason or that max is leaving for a reason because it was reported Come on. Let's stop this. You know, let's stop creating the narrative This commissioner was given an amazing opportunity to show her skill set and she did and she did an amazing job Now if you want to create some type of narrative on why then that's up to you But don't don't put words in her mouth that she did not tell you She made the decision That she wanted to do something else and I respect that, you know So when you say that because so and so was around her That's the same creative writing that you guys have been doing throughout this whole administration and I find it I find it fascinating that the same people that made life difficult for the commissioner Are now standing up acting like they were treating up with the love and nurturing that she deserved She was bringing down crime and some of the city council members that are speaking now were they were tearing her apart They were putting obstacles in front of her every day no matter what she's what she did And some of you are writing stories right now about you know, oh my god when you were destroying her when she was here Every day finding in you in you in you in those in rumors We heard this and we heard that when she was doing what she was hired to do in a very professional way I mean, you know, you're talking about how she felt in the department How does she felt in the city when she was turning the city around and I don't see that's the Matter of fact, we need to search some articles Jonah of how often y'all wrote how well she was doing How often did y'all write how well the first women commissioner did how often did you do that Dana? You have one article you could point to Okay, yeah, I'm pretty sure so everybody's talking about how much you loved her Did you show her love when she was here? I showed her love I Adored what the commissioner was doing and the rest of you should ask what role did you play? Yes I don't know the question. What's the question you asked me? She Why What number of years would make it not a negative mark is there pre-determined number of years So Folding around where in room 9 Listen people out there people out there. You know what they say to me Eric how safe is the city? I mean you guys live in this bubble where y'all all talk to each other And y'all come up with these different of you know, oh my god these conspiracy, you know people say out there How safe is the city? That's what they want. They want the city to be safe My number one skill set is that I'm able to ignore noise and do the job We are doing the job even while we're dealing with assignment seekers. We're selling in union contracts Even while we're bringing down crime. We're improving our school system. We're dealing with housing So I'm doing the job because I'm able to do the job because I ignore all the noise that I'm constantly Bombarded with I told the commissioner from the beginning as long as I'm mayor you can be my commissioner. I Like you as a professional and I like you as a person The your poise your character. She reminds me of my older sister Very poise. She's a good character and I think she's a good human being Yes Okay, first you guys were saying in January that banks was undermining her in January But you were saying that you were saying it in February March April That's been a narrative that you had all along you've been saying it of Deputy mayor banks is a deputy mayor public safety All of those pieces that fall under public safety. He's responsible for it. That's what deputy mayors do And so, you know, I have a short list you even on my list, you know, I think you are making, you know a great, you know Public official, you know, and so when we ready to make announcement We're gonna make announcement and you know, the New York City Police Department is a well oil machine It continues to function when we started decreasing crime when I was a rookie cop top under Bill Bratton Bernie Kerry came in we still decreased crime Bernie left Safer came in we still decreased crime. It's a well oil machine She put in place a platform that we can all build on and we're going to continue to build on it And so that's the role the role of the police department is to keep New Yorkers safe and we're doing that The people of the city elected me to be the mayor we need to be clear on that every agency Every agency we keep trying to isolate this into the NYPD I would encourage you all to speak with all of my commissioners every one of them Department of Parks HPD They will all tell you This guy is up all night Making sure New Yorkers are getting the product that they Expect it doesn't matter the agency I was I was elected or hired by this city to make sure they get the product they deserve And so if you're asking me that am I going to ensure that Whomever is the police commissioner that they're going to provide the product that New Yorkers have articulated to me yes and Every agency Understands that that this is a mayor that wants to know what product are you giving New Yorkers? That's not going to change that is who I am Because I know how good the city is I know how good the workers are and I know how good my commissioners are And so when you look at the number of commissioners we have like I said for Commissioners left Gary left the police commissioner is leaving was left now to think about it huh I Said I said Gary. I said Gary. So we took out of how many how many agencies do we have? Agencies we got 70 70 something agencies 70 something agencies Let's say five. I'm gonna give you five five decided to do something else at a 70 something Agencies and we're saying is everybody running for the door. No, everybody's running to do their job Are you confessing to be a micromanager? No, I'm I am listen I keep remembering what mom told me Inspect what you expect or is all suspect That's all she tell me trust but verify Now some people may call it a micromanager I called it being a mayor of a city that you love and taxpayers Elected me to give them the product they deserve and I don't think they've been getting the product. They deserve previously. They're gonna get it now