 I'm going to text you details, we're hosting 10,000 youths where we want to, I'm talking points. Ladies and gentlemen, please have your seats. Good evening. Welcome to the mayor's community conversation on public safety. Thank you for attending. All of you in this room are really leaders in the community, whether you're violence interrupters, heads of community boards, civic association, community-based organizations, leaders of the clergy, and just leaders in your neighborhoods. So I just want to give a brief synopsis. There are three parts to this meeting. The first one, which you just concluded, were roundtable conversations with city agency executives from NYPD, principals from different schools. You had agency representatives from a different agency as a facilitator and a note taker from the mayor's office at your table. So we greatly appreciate that. Those notes will be transcribed in order to be able to be reviewed by those key decision makers in city hall and in agencies. The second portion is your Q&A cards that you have at the tables in front of you. Just in case your question isn't asked, we're going to put that down in an Excel format, send out to different city agencies. Within a week, you'll all get a phone call directly from the city agency, monitored by the mayor's office to ensure there's proper follow-up, and this way we'll get that done. The third portion now is the Q&A from each table directed to the mayor and the leadership from the different city agencies. So the run of show for this would be the mayor speaking followed by the district attorney and the borough president. So I'd like to hand it over to the mayor right now. So we want to spend the maximum amount of time getting the questions and as I move around the room, many of you, we have been in this field for a long time of really getting our community the resources that they need. I see so many folks from the crisis management team, some of my clergy leadership, folks around domestic violence, and I'm just really happy to see the young people who are here. And there's a story that I tell over and over again because I really want folks to understand how we're going to move this city forward. It goes back to the days growing up in South Jamaica, Queens, we used to attend a small church, we would call it the Cheers Church. Everyone knew your name and everyone was glad you came. We'd go to church during the day, have a break, and then go back at night. And during the break, you would have something to eat, but mom was raising six children and we didn't have that meal part of the conversation. And then one night after the evening service, a car caravan of women from our community came to our house. They knew that we were struggling, they knew that mother was not able to make ends meet, and they started unloading boxes of groceries. And they brought it inside our house and put it on the countertop and they prayed with us. That night I went downstairs and I looked inside the boxes because I was going to finally have real milk and not that powdered milk. Real eggs and not the powdered eggs, just real food. And the boxes were open. Half a box of spaghetti, half a jar of mayonnaise. Those women could not afford to give us groceries. They went into their own cupboards and gave us half of what they had. And when we were growing up this conversation around homelessness, it didn't exist. You kept your cousins and your nephews that came from the Caribbean or the South, they stayed with you. We stayed with our uncles until we were able to get that little walk-up tenement. And you didn't have 13-year-olds carrying nine millimeter guns, you know? See, this is the clown, this is the clown, and this is what we are up against. People want to spend time being disruptive. That's what people want to do. But we got to stay focused and not get distracted. That's what we must do. Be focused and not distracted. Because people want to spend time on what they disagree on and not spend time what we agree on. That's what we have to be. So all that noise, all that noise, that's what folks don't understand. Listen, they are new to this. I'm not new to this, I'm true to this. I'm true to this. So because you are the loudest does not mean you are saying something. Your ability to sit down and say, how do we work together? Because you could disagree with something, but you don't disagree with people should not be living in the state that they're living in now. And so if there's ever been a moment in history, if there's ever been a moment in history that personifies Esther 4 and 14, this is the moment. God made me for such a time like this. I'm the right mayor for the right time to do what needs to be done in this city. And we need you. This is the partnership that we need. We need to hear from you. We're not going to always get it right, but we'll be damned if we're not going to focus on changing the conditions that we are witnessing all the time. And so that's what this moment is about. And we're going to keep doing this and bring us together as a unit and hear from each other to resolve the issues that we're facing. So I cannot say enough. Thank you for coming out. Thank you for participating. You are the majority in this city on solving real issues that we are attempting to solve. You have a mayor that's focused, that's disciplined and that is ready to serve you to the best of my ability to move our city in the right direction. Love you and thank you so much. We can open it. Good evening. I'm Alvin Bragg, Manhattan District Attorney. Good to be in Manhattan North. Good to be in the Village of Harlem. Great thanks to our mayor for convening us, for keeping us focused on public safety. I was listening to him talk about that early church experience. And for me, I looked out, I said it's a big one, but it kind of feels like the church basement in my church and calling all of us together as education leaders, clergy leaders, our cure of violence. I see so many faces out there have worked so long. And it also took me back to my youth when I heard the mayor talk about his growing up in the Village of Harlem, you know, facing gun issues, you know, having had guns pointed at me, having been shot at. And I think about the trauma that our youth are still experiencing. So I'm looking forward to our conversation tonight. I want to be brief because I want to get to your questions. But thank you so much for the leadership you're showing every day. Let's stay focused on these issues and let's deliver safety to Manhattan. Good evening, everybody. I am your Manhattan Borough President, Mark Levine. I want to first thank you, Mr. Mayor, for convening this group together. You can see I brought my fan club here today. And for being willing to honestly and directly confront the challenges that we're here to talk about tonight. And I also want to acknowledge my great friend, our district attorney, Alvin Bragg, for doing the hard work to help make Manhattan safer. You know, this has been a very painful few weeks uptown. We lost a young man, derriously 21 years old. I was with many of you in the aftermath, a promising young man in a mass shooting in East Harlem. We lost a 20-year-old mother, Asia Johnson. Mayor and I were together that night. I got the chance to talk to the families, the mothers. We were actually with Asia's mother, Lisa, to sort that night. I will never forget the pain, just the deep visceral pain of Asia's mom and the mothers and families that have had to deal with this incalculable loss. On Saturday, we lost a 14-year-old to a stabbing on 137th Street. It's hard to wrap your head around that. And the individual arrested is himself only 15 years old. No city can accept this. I do not accept this. I know no one in this room accepts this. We cannot allow this to happen in Northern Manhattan, in New York City, anywhere. We have to confront it on every front. And I know this for sure. The people in this room, you are key to the solution. Every one of you has a role to play. If you are a violence interrupter, you have a role to play. You can applaud for the violence interrupters. We appreciate you, and I want to uplift the young people who are here. I think many of you are from Street Corner Resources. Actually, could we have the young people stand up so we can see you and acknowledge you, young people anywhere in the room. Thank you. Thank you. This gives me hope. Mr. Mayor, I know you agree that we have young people who could be anywhere tonight, and they came out here tonight because they care about making a difference, and we thank you for that. We need to do more to support the young people in the city. We need more after-school programs. We need more job training, more summer programs so that people don't feel the pull to ever pick up a gun. We need to give them better alternatives. We know that makes our city safer. We have to invest in the programs which will make this ultimately a healthier and safer Manhattan and New York City. And I'm honored to be part of this conversation. I want to get to your Q&A. Thank you so much for coming out here tonight. Thank you. Thank you very much. So, those three to the Q&A, we'll go to table one. Good evening, Mayor. The question that my wonderful group here has come up is that while the city has many youth programs and services that are seasonal, how can the city expand them to be year round and enrich them with mental health services, mentorship, food, vocational training, and counseling? Thank you. Thank you. And I'm going to do my CD also to commissioners here. From that matter of fact, thank my entire team. This is the, this is our leadership team that's here. We did something in, when I was Brooklyn Borough President, in what we call extended use facility. We, the schools, when people wanted to use the school buildings to host a different event, we would charge them for the school safety offices, for the cleaning of the insurance. We would charge in all of these things. And we said, why are we charging non-profits and local community-based groups to use the schools in their communities? So we said, we're going to pick up the tab, allow them to use it for free and using their human capital to put those programs in place. We're going to duplicate that again under this administration. But we have done, these schools have gyms, classrooms, some have swimming pools. We need to utilize these spaces better than what we're doing. But we have done an amazing job thus far. First time in the New York City history, 100,000 summer youth jobs, never before 100,000. We're getting ready to move to paid internship programs year round. We're sitting down now with leaders so that our young people year round could get exposures to the profession that are available and being paid for their internship programs. We have amazing summarized program. We know that education should not be just through the year. The schools need to be open for summer months. We have 110,000 people, children that signed up for the summarized program. Because we knew there was a learning loss during the summer months. We want to continue to expand that. Midnight of basketball that we're doing is more than just basketball. It is opening our school facilities so our children can get the resources that they need and save spaces. That's crucial. But with DYCD and Deputy Mayor Wright did, and I want to go back to the 100,000 summer youth jobs that what they did, we did not just have our young people have a job getting a paycheck at the end of the two weeks period. No, we have them taking financial literacy, meditation, how to communicate with each other, how to travel around the city. You'll be surprised how many young people in Harlem never left Harlem, don't know about Wall Street, don't know about the UN, don't know about the museums. So built into our program, we're giving our young people life skills, as well as the summer youth employment. And so the goal is to hear also from you, both young people and adults, what are some of the other initiatives that we can do by utilizing the access of the city, the resources of the city to make sure our young people are engaged, and that's our goal. You want to touch on anything that I missed, Commissioner? Just to drill down on the numbers, Mr. Mayor, some of youth employment for Manhattan, 10,000, which is a significant number. Summarizing, 15,000, and also we've expanded the Saturday night lights to 28 sites, which is 840 participants. So definitely a significant investment. However, I just want to say that we actually had conversations literally today about how to transition from the summer youth program into a full-time program. You're gonna be probably seeing that as conversations occur. Let's go. Table number two, Reverend Cabrera. Thank you so much, Mr. Mayor. Fantastic group here with robust discussions and stalwart leaders, they had one question related to youth again. And that is, how is the city considering implementing cognitive behavior intervention, including conflict resolution, decision making, self esteem, and critical thinking for our city's youth? That's a great question, that's crucial. It wasn't until I got into college that I took my first course on communication. We're telling our young people how to handle conflicts, how to communicate. Well, when did they learn it? That needs to be built into the Department of Education. If leaving school is not only being academically smart, but it's being emotionally intelligent. How do we learn how to talk? How do we learn how to be deep listeners so that we can seek to understand so we're understood? We're not teaching it anywhere, and then we can upset when our young people, or even adults, can't engage in real conversation on how we could disagree without being disagreeable. So the goal is to infuse that in the Department of Education and make sure that in our moments of educating our children, we're not only making them capable of being employed, but we're also making them a better, well-rounded young people that are going to be adults. But we have Dan here from the Department of Education. Can you talk on some of the stuff that Chancellor Banks who's out of town, he will be here, but he's out of town that he's doing. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. Great question, thank you, honor to be here in Harlem. And this is, as the Mayor said, this has been a priority for him, it's been a priority for Chancellor Banks to think about the whole child. Not just academics, which is the core of what we do in New York City Public Schools. But everything, our job is not just, as the Mayor says, to make sure our young people leave high school with a diploma and being book smart, but being able to be successful in the world, in every aspect of it. And so you see some of this programming in our community schools, which we're able to expand to 400 community schools all around the city now. It's the highest number of community schools we've ever had in our history. Where many of our CBO partners are focusing on social emotional learning, are focusing on life skills, are focusing on dispute resolution. But we're not just keeping this in community schools. This is training that all teachers should have. And we've got a long way to go, but we've started that practice. Teachers shouldn't know if a young person is dealing with trauma at home. That's gonna affect the way he or she is able to learn, or is being prevented from learning. So we need all of our teachers to get the training so they can connect, build relationship, and make sure those young people are getting what they need in the classroom to school. Another thing which has been very, very important, because mental health right now is a crisis, we now have a social worker guidance counselor in every single school. And that's a big step, that wasn't there when I was going to New York City Public Schools, one there where probably a lot of you were in school. But now we've got a social worker guidance counselor in every single school with partners in the city council, et cetera. And so mental health, but it's not just about having the mental health resources there. It's making sure all the adults in the building can make sure those kids access those things. So those are some of the things we're working on. So thank you. The next table, Pola. Hello sir, great discussion here, echoing everyone about youth. The question we have is what are you doing to engage with you who have experienced trauma and are involved with violence? Yeah, that's such a big issue for me. And Dan, Dan, you could probably deal with some of the trauma stuff that you just pointed out, but you know, I don't think we pay enough attention to those who are the victims of that trauma. You know, there's a brokenness after you experience trauma on so many different levels. I communicate regularly with the family members who have experienced some level of trauma. I still communicate with them. I'm still engaged in their lives and in a real way. And we do so much that we don't talk about, you know, that we don't really put on Broadway because we think it's important to respect the, you know, the issues that people are facing. But the goal for us is to utilize the Department of Education better. And that's what Chancellor Banks is doing. And so, Dan, if there's some specific trauma things that you're doing in DOE, you know, please, you know, touch on them. Yes, sir. And again, this comes down to we've got about 140,000 adults in the New York City public schools. We want to make sure every single one of them is trained to understand the signs of trauma. That, you know, if you're a mental health professional, you know this. But if you're a teacher, you may not know this. If you are somebody who works in school food, you may not know this. You never know who the young person is going to develop a relationship with. And if you have that training, which is what we're engaged in right now, making sure all of our staff get this training in trauma-informed education, they're going to be able to, one, make sure that young person is ready to learn, which you can't do. If you're dealing with trauma, very, very difficult to focus on what that teacher is saying in front of the room. And the second thing is, again, making sure they can access the mental health resources, which under the mayor's leadership are more robust in the New York City public schools than they ever have been. And it's so important for, as Dan has pointed out, not only in DOE, but in our city, we must be trauma identifiers. We must be able to identify as someone is going through trauma. And many of our civil servants are going through trauma also. And that vicarious trauma is real. If all day, every day you are experiencing people who are going through painful moments, you begin to embrace that and you're going through some personal things at home. All of us went through something during COVID, all of us. And to be able to be a trauma identifier of not only for the people we are servicing, but to do it in our office. We are on Zoom calls sometimes, and I can see trauma in my staff that I say, listen, let's take a break and let's do a breathing exercise because you're going through some stuff. And if we don't recognize that trauma, we're not going to be able to help that trauma. So our goal of the Department of Education for the youth questions, our goal is no longer to see the Department of Education just as an academic place. It's a place to identify trauma. If we need washing machines in our schools for our children, then we need to get washing machines. If we need food pantries, we need to get food pantries. We need to find out what people need. Because by the time those babies get to the school, many of them are broken in so many places. And if all we're saying, little Johnny, why can't you read and write? Because he said, listen, man, I'm living from house to house. I haven't had a real meal. You know, I'm in a domestic violence situation. So if part of the educational system where you are with these babies, if part of that system is not to identify, what are your impediments? It's not that Johnny can't read, there are too many impediments that's preventing him from reading. And we need to remove those impediments. And that's the DOE that we are going to turn our educational system into. I just want to add one thing. I don't know if Commissioner Logan is here from MacJay, the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice. If not, just great. For justice involved youth, there is also programming that provides cognitive behavioral therapy and family functional therapy. It's just begun and it's really promising. So if people have other ideas and suggestions about that work, we'd love to hear it. Thank you. Next table number four, Karen. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. This is a great table here. This is Harlem right here. This is Harlem, OK? That's right. So Mr. Mayor, they said one question. How can we partner with you in Harlem to bring resources into the community around the areas of youth, mental health, safety, domestic violence, entrepreneurship, career training, small business, home ownership and housing? Because wait, because because they feel that Harlem is not getting what they deserve and not getting the funding. You know, that's that's how you that's how you fit all the questions into, you know, into one. Yes. And you know, and this is this is one way of doing it. You know, the city, the city is in real financial crisis, real financial crisis. You know, I inherited a mess and we have to make smart financial choices. But we also have to do better with what we have. We have not been using your tax dollars appropriately. And we want to turn that around. We've been really hemorrhaging and wasting taxpayers' dollars. And that is why we don't have the money we need to do the things that you just talked about. And so it's about creating a list as you just did and then sitting down together and coming up with the plan to start ticking those items off. You know, when we talk about economic development, we have a twenty one point five billion dollar procurement contract in the city. And a lot of that procurement is not going to women and minority owned businesses, particularly businesses of color. And so we we examine in the contract in a procurement process to make sure that it is going in the right direction. The numbers in the Department of Education, those numbers are horrific. The students are black and brown, but go look and see who have the procurement dollars that's attached to that. You know, it's not reflected up. I don't know. Do you have the exact percentage of what we do to minority and women owned businesses? If we're talking about black and Latinx owned businesses, it's far less than one percent. One percent less than one percent of our procurement. Yet we are the overwhelming majority of students. See, that's the upside down tricky math that we have been experienced for a long time. And so when we look at if I am buying my goods and services from a business in Harlem, they're going to employ someone from Harlem. If I'm purchasing from a local restaurant, then those employees are coming from that local restaurant. So that's what we are examining. So how we can put money back into the community and really help the economy. But we need to sit down with folks like yourselves here in Harlem and talk about what are some of the ideas you have on that list that you went down. HBD is here when we talk about affordable housing. Let's hear from that. Susan is here from Department of Parks, what you want your parks to look like. So these are all the players. And as you look at those topics, we need them to be in the room with you to say what you want your community to look like and how to use the resources. See, this is how government is supposed to work. You support you pay your taxes. We're supposed to deliver goods and services to you based on the tax dollars you pay. That has not been happening. And we need to turn that upside down so your tax dollars come back to you in the goods and services through the agencies that are sitting at this table right now. Excellent. Thank you. Next table. Can we go to Alina? Hi, good evening. Thank you, commissioners and Mr. Mayor. I have to say that my table is the most passionate people from Harlem. So they did have a lot of questions about youth, but they have a question. They're saying that NYPD is spread too thin and they want to know when are you going to hold other NYC agencies really accountable and they want to know who's monitoring who's monitoring their money when it's when they're being held accountable. And it's so right. Now, you said at the first part, you say NYPD is OK, you want to get that cheap? Hey, good evening. How are you? So. Over the past decade, the NYPD has asked to step into a lot of areas that weren't ours, and that's probably why you get this perception that we are spread very thin. I will say this and I've been in this business now for 34 years. And I'm a lifelong New Yorker. There is no administration that has taken the whole of government approach to solving problems that Mayor Adams administration has. You asked. You asked when he's going to get other city agencies involved. That happened January 1st, and it's been happening every day since. I know almost every single person at this table because we are on calls all the time working together to actually solve problems and not kick the can down the road. And I'm just going to give you a quick example of, you know, the approach around people living in the street, you know, homeless. Now, I'm a beat cop 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago. I'm walking down the street. There's a guy laying there on his cardboard box. All I'm going to do is say, buddy, you can't stay here, right? Get lost. That's all I can do. He's not committing a crime. And I have no way to get him any additional help beyond that. So he's going to pick up his cardboard box. He's going to go around the corner or wherever he's going to go. And he's not going to get the help that he needs. We're not doing that anymore. So we're going out as a team. We're going out with the Department of Homeless Services and Social Services and community based organizations and faith based organizations and actually connecting with people and getting them the services that they need more than a thousand people this year who were living in the subway and nobody should be living in the subway. It's inhumane. This is the greatest city in the world. We can do better. More than a thousand people have not only come out, they've connected with services and stayed connected with services, right? That's a win. That's a thousand people no longer living in the subway on their way to a better life. So what you're asking for has happened. It's going to continue to happen, and it's only going to increase. And we're going to get better and better at it as we move forward. And it's the whole government approach. It's the whole government approach. And we have some stuff that we are about to roll out like our My City card. That is a huge win. Why do you go to get childcare? And then you have to fill out another form if you want to get snapped. Then you have to fill out another form if you want to roll your child in school. Then you have to fill out another form for this, another form for that. We are creating a system called My City. When once you register for something one time, that data will be used every time you interact with the agency. So we're not running you around the city. We are unifying the system. And then it's going to do something else. You register your child for childcare. It's also going to look at your data and say, hey, Ms. Jones, do you know you're available for SNAP? Do you know you're available for Earned Income Tax Credit? So we're going to start telling you with services you are available so that you don't have to try to figure it out. We need to run the city smarter than what it is and not try to have you run around and try to figure out what's available with your tax dollars. We're going to let you know how your tax dollars are going to work for you. And we're going to align our agencies together. No more sight lowing agencies. No more, this is not my job. No, this is everybody's job. We're in this together and we're going to be all united together to fix the problem. Thank you. Next table, Pastor Gilman Rose. Good evening and we're sorry for our friends. When will the budget of DOE of two billion dollars be restored, cuts be restored? This is this is such a this this DOE conversation is such an important one. You know, because people have hijacked the conversation. So here's what's happening with the with the Department of Education. We have a massive hemorrhaging of students, massive hemorrhaging, when a very dangerous place in a number of students that we are dropping, there's something called fair student funding, which is a wrong equation that we're fighting Albany to fix. But we are paying 100 percent of fair student funding. This is the amount of money each child is allocated from Albany. You if you have a thousand children in school, each child per child gets a dollar match attached to it. We had a substantial drop in students in schools. So you started with a thousand for arguments sake. You drop down to 600. Albany is saying, we're only paying you for 600. We're not paying you for a thousand. And so when we said to our schools, we said, listen, they're cutting off our the funding, the fair student funding. So we're not going to cut you off right away. We have stimulus dollars. We're going to use those stimulus dollars to keep you home. We told them that last year, but you got to start adjusting to having 600 students. We came this year. We said, we're still not going to cut you off. We're going to give you three fourth of the amount that we normally give you. But next year, because of the stimulus dollars, we got to give you 50 percent of the dollars that we normally give you. But the year after we have no more federal dollars. Then we can hit with other things that Albany is putting on us without giving us the money for. So what we did is slowly adjust based on the student population and the money that's coming from Albany. So we need your help to tell Albany, let's change the equation based on the number of students we have in our school. So we won't lose the money in our schools. We're going based on what Albany is doing. We are a creature of Albany. They give us our fair student funding. Now, we look like the bad guy because we're the one that has to adjust what Albany is doing to us. We need Albany to do the right thing and make sure we get the fair student funding increase so that we can put the money in the schools. Right now, we're keeping them as whole as possible. But the federal money is going to run out. And when it runs out, we don't we no longer have that cushion that we have. So it's not our desire to cut any money. We that's why we did only three fourth this year. Next year, we're going to do 50 percent. But then we're going to fall off the cliff if we don't get the support that we need from Albany. Thank you. Next table, Tony. Mr. Mayer, there's always a privilege to address you. I'm just going to just say native table four, because table seven has all the young people at it. And their question is, and they want specifics, how can you help the youth in our community immediately walk out of this room and gain access to the resources like mentoring programs, life skills, training, as well as civic engagement, education, which is reverberated from our previous town hall and in the school system and getting them very engaged in the process of learning about government. And that's that's strong and that's important. I don't know if Dan, if you want to if you want to announce something, but civic learning and education should be in school. Again, we say this over and over again. We are changing the model of education. We were not just saying, do you know one in one equals two? So how you get engaged? One hundred thousand summer youth employment jobs and our agencies also started hiring more. We had the largest allotment of youth in the New York City Police Department and summer youth employment in the history of the summer youth employment, S.Y.E.P, the largest. So if you want to build better relationships with the police in the community, those young people are now being part of the summer youth employment and the police department. Civic engagement. We're going during our summer youth employment season this year. Our young people are going to meet elected officials. They're going to go to the UN. They're going to go to the museum. They're going to go and participate with all forms of government. By the time they go back to school next year, they're going to have a wealth of real on hands knowledge. And we believe that we need to have real processes with this inside our schools. Our young people should volunteer in their congressional office, their assembly office, their council office, the mayor's office. We want them engaged. And that's part of the paid internship program that we're going to put in place to have our young people engaged. Then we're going to do what we did in Brooklyn with the Brooklyn Steam Center. Our young people should be able to graduate from high school with certifications to work and to walk into real jobs. Not only it's great to go to college if you if you want, but you should be able to be gainfully employed with the tech jobs that are available, carpentry, plumbing, electrician. I knew I was in the wrong occupation when my electrician drove off in a Porsche, you know. Listen, those are good jobs. And we have moved away from those good jobs and our system training and the education of trade schools is a real winning scenario. So to the young people at the table and in this room, we want you also to tell us how we can do better and civic engagement and some of your ideas so we can break off in another session. I had a meeting, I zoomed the other day with a group of young people. I would like for you to be a part of the young people advisory committee for us. You give us the idea so we don't dictate to you. You could tell us what we need to do. Thank you. Next table, Anthony. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. You know, you work with a group and your dream of coming up after one hour with a question. And I think Yubin and Dariel and Captain Donahue with the two, three priests and seeing the synergy between the ages. And I had, I thought I really had the perfect question. And the question was going to ask, are you going to reform the NYPD homeless outreach unit to address homelessness in the streets? But thank you, Chief Corey, because I think you answer that question. So we're going to move on to the next one, which was an important question as well. And the concern that they had was can you discuss the actions taking thus far to combat youth gang violence here in the city? First of all, the one I still do want to touch on that homeless outreach. The first week when we instituted our homeless outreach, people criticized us. My first month in office in January, I went into the streets. I went into the subway system. I sat in tents. I sat in cardboard boxes and I talked to people who are living on the street. What I saw inside those encampments, human waste, drug powder, some people were bipolar, didn't even know how to get access. That is what started our initiative to hit the streets and say it was not dignified to live on the street. First week, we did our initiative. Twenty two people took us up on our offer and said they're going to come inside. We had a combination of HRA, Gary Jenkins and other volunteers. After to date, we have seventeen hundred people who are no longer living on the subway system. And they took us up on our offer to go and find a dignified way to live in the city. So it's about engagement. And so I'm never going to advocate for people living on the streets. That is, I'm never going to advocate for that. And a lot of information we got was from my brother, Shams the Baron, who for the first time in history, homeless advocates came to City Hall and sat down and helped us draft the plan that we were going to do. And that was crucial to put in place to deal with the homeless issue. What was your second part of your question? Your second real issue, real issue, real issue. The driver of gun violence is coming from the youth gangs. And it's not the gangs of yesteryears. And I'm sure many of these crisis management of critical, you know, these messengers, 18 Mitchell and others can tell you that the driver of the violence we're seeing now is really coming from the crews, the street crews. And there are many rivers, I say, that feed the sea of violence. But we want intervention and prevention. We it's not just we can't lock our way out of this. We can't just lock people up and think this is going to go away. You know, so intervention is right now. That's what we have to do right now. That's the combination of law enforcement. That's the 3700 guns we took off our streets. That's the neighborhood safety team. Those are the intervention, because you got to deal with the issue right now, because they're real shooters right now. But there needs to be prevention. Because by the time Bar-Kem picks up a gun, we already failed him. We already lost him. That's why we're doing dyslexia screening in every school that we're putting in place, because 30 to 40 percent of our inmates are dyslexic. When I was a kid, I didn't know how to deal with it. It's dyslexic. When I was on Rikers Island last week, speaking to those young men there, they were sharing their stories, homeless shelters, not getting support in homeless shelters, coming from broken homes, missing days in school, two and three hundred days. No one identified they on the pathway of criminality and gang behavior. So we want to do intervention, right? That's why 18 Mitchell, a deputy mayor, right? Our partners and this new approach to giving the support to our crisis management team, Department of Probation is having a whole new initiative of our young people who are juveniles and they arrested their first encounters. We're giving them the support system that they need so they don't continue down that pathway. So we need to stop the flow of criminal behavior while we deal with the immediate threat that we have now. When I ran, I had a series of meetings with gang members. We sat down behind closed doors and said, what do we need to do to, you know, get these guns off our streets? And it was a real issue and they came up with some real ideas and some of those ideas have been implemented right now. Lastly, we cannot ignore social media. Social media, they are well aware that they are fueling the beefs that are taking place on social media with millions of views that young people are watching and carrying out the violence in their communities. Social media is irresponsible and we need to hold them responsible. If they can take Donald Trump off of Twitter, then they can take some of this threatening behavior that they see in social media every day. Thank you. Next question to Andrew. Good evening, sir. Can you let the good people of Harlem know what is being done to keep residents safe from visible drug use, an increase in crime and a lack of responsiveness from the police department? Chief, we also we have we have a couple of chiefs here, but chief Madri, can you touch that chief of patrol, Jeff Madri? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and good evening, Harlem. Sir, thank you for your question. The first thing I want to touch on is the last part of your question about the irresponsiveness of the police department. I've been in this department over 31 years and I see in an instant new role as the chief of patrol, I see the dedication and commitment of these officers every day. They go out here in a tough environment and so many of them give their all to try to address issues, work with the community, work with our youth and make sure you can come home safely. So we're not irresponsible, but no stretch of the imagination. And if you have ever have any issues with any police officers, please, by all means, let me know and we'll definitely address that because that's what I'm here for to make sure that I hold the members of my department accountable. But in terms of, you know, just open drug use and stuff, you know, we we we pay attention to our 311 calls. We try to make sure we go to community meetings. We want to hold we host community meetings. That way we can hear exactly what's going on in the community. We could touch down on some of the problem at problematic places and make sure we're providing the service and the care that's needed. When our patrol officers can't do it, when our neighborhood safety officers can't do it, we have other units in the department that we could turn to our detective bureau who has, you know, officers that are responsible for monitoring gang activity, narcotic activity. Sometimes it's something that a patrol officer can't do. He doesn't have the way with all the do that job. So we have to bring in a specialist to help out. And not only that, you know, in the short time I've been here and under the mayor's leadership, again, we're having a stronger partnership with a lot of our city agencies on the weekends. When we have every weekend, we have an ad hoc team of SLA, Consumer Affairs, Department of Buildings, other city agencies that can come and give us support where we have problems. So if you say there's drug dealing in the building and we don't have access to that building, we have the Department of Buildings and we use other means to sometimes go, you know, to get the job done. It may not be law enforcement. We use our other partners to get the job done. So this department is not a responsive for officers out there. They handle thousands of 911 calls. They handle thousands of community complaints. And like I said, we're available here and whatever we can do to help you, we will. And also just to add, if you have the question cards in front of you, if there are any specific locations you want to highlight to us, we're happy to follow up and be intermediaries to ensure that we stay on top of those locations. So if there is a hotspot, make sure to make note of it on the card in front of you. And we keep it confidential, obviously. Next question, Padmore. Hi, good evening, Mr. Mayor and everyone else, Commissioner Vashan. Wanted to ask very specifically in terms of positive outcomes, specifically with disconnected youth, how is the city going to be helping and facilitating that? How can we ensure appropriate funding is going to effective organizations like SAVE and to ensure that there are greater positive social interactions between the NYPD and the community? Mr. Mayor, we had folks from East, Central and West Harlem here. So you have the whole of Harlem speaking collectively together. Sure, I think so, about students, young people who are out of school, out of work, which are commonly referred to as disconnected youth. So we are in the process of relaunching a task force that's focused on young people who are out of school and out of work and making sure that we are providing all of the array of services and opportunities for them, everything from workforce development, health services, housing, mentorship. So it is a big priority and focus of this administration. There has been some work done in the past, but unfortunately, there's still a lot of gaps that exist. And we are very focused on filling all of those gaps. And it's going to be an effort of the Department of Youth and Community Development as well as other agencies that are sitting here. We're going to be working together to address that. Thank you. Next question, next table, Malcolm. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. This table wants to represent GOD, right? Our question is, Mr. Mayor, how do you envision improving the quality of life in NYCHA with this broken system? And also, how do we, how do you envision improving the quality of life to the disabled population? We have, we have. Yeah, about to say, where's my CEO? Okay, my man. We were together today in the Bronx of, you know, speaking to some NYCHA residents of, and so why don't you go over some of the things that we're doing and I'm really excited about this generation in NYCHA. You know, some good solid people are there. Good evening. Thank you for the question. NYCHA is in the midst of a transformation, literally changing the way it has operated for the last 80 years. NYCHA strives to do two main things, improve its management and improve the physical structures of the building and improving our management. We want to focus on better customer service. When our residents come to the management office, they need to be treated like the assets that they are instead of second class citizens. When they actually put in a work ticket, we want to be able to get to get the work done instead of them waiting for months and months or having to call the mayor, having to call their state rep, having to call me directly to get their work done. We also want to improve the cleanliness of our sites. We every time we go out in the morning, we see a lot of trash. The goal is to get the trash up, get it moved and get it done every day on a cycle so our residents feel comfortable coming home, cleaning the hallways from when the vagrants come in, the non NYCHA residents that come in and they do whatever they do. We come behind cleaning it. Also, NYCHA has to improve our social service delivery, even though we are one of the largest landlords in New York with 600,000 residents, we deliver social services to those 600,000 residents. As the mayor said earlier, being able to connect inside that one stop shop and have our residents know, hey, not only are you eligible for our housing, but you have this, this, this, and this, we can connect them to those services. One of the most crucial things we're trying to do at NYCHA is empower our local resident leaders. We have 300 tenant association presidents, and I guarantee you all 300 will tell you a different story of NYCHA. We want that story of NYCHA to be more positive because we're empowering them to, to be the change in their community. And finally, under our improved management, we want to increase accountability, not just through discipline, but empowering our frontline workers to deliver the services at a high quality for all of our residents across NYCHA, including our 125,000 residents that live in Manhattan. Now we want to try to be a better physical structure for our residents through the mayor support, the state pass, the preservation trust. That is going to be a resident driven comprehensive modernization program that will modernize all NYCHA 175,000 units here in New York City. Not only that, we're taking it to some key steps into those designs. One is security by design. We can design security elements into our community so that our residents can feel safe while keeping the vagrants out. Secondly, we want our residents to have more energy efficient homes so that they know their heat is going to actually work. Their water is going to actually work. And finally, we want to do economic empowerment by design, by putting in systems that don't need a complicated degree to maintain so that our residents can actually get the jobs that we will produce so that they can call themselves home and be economically empowered to stay in NYCHA. So earlier today, we were with the mayor and he saw glimpses of that as we worked with our disabled residents to improve their quantity of life at their particular building that we were at today. They're going to be part of bringing that building back through the comprehensive modernization because they're going to be at the table designing how that building is going to be rehab and selecting the contractors that's going to come provide that service. So that's how we're going to do the due to answer your question. That's what NYCHA is going to do to improve the quality of life for its residents and as well as our most vulnerable population. Thank you. Next table. Kevin. Good evening. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So we had a wonderful table here of passionate community leaders and passionate youth leaders. And this question has been brought up over and over again, but it bears repeating. There are so many programs in our communities for youth, but they're not always readily available and where they are, the youth aren't always aware of what they are. So how do we create more programming or allocate more funding to programming to create spaces for youth that keep them out of danger, helps them to get into opportunities where they can excel and succeed the way that we know that they are capable of doing? And you know, first of all, it's, it's, it's, it's, we should all be pleased that when you look at the overwhelming number of questions, we're talking about our young people. So that, you know, that is a great signal that we understand tied to our present and future. Is going to be what we do with our young people. And because they're not the leaders of tomorrow, they're the leaders of today. And we need to give them the tools they need to do so. And so what we're going to do, we're going to break off and we're doing one of these just for young people, just for young people. And we need some facilitators to, you know, assist in crafting some of the ideas that they have. And we want them to deliver to us, how do we better get the message out to what we have available? Because we're leaving too much on the table when it comes down to what's available for them. And so they could instruct us on how to better get the information out to them on many levels. Like even this beautiful facility, this PAL, there's some great programs that come out of here. How many young people are not aware of these programs? And not aware of some of the programs, some of the after-school programs. So it's one thing to create a program. It's another thing to connect the program with the person that's in need. And that is where I believe we have fallen short because I go to many programs in the city and you see 25% capacity. We need to get 100% capacity. And that is the help we need from our young people to tell us how to accomplish that task. Thank you. Next table, Edo. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Hi. This was the question dictated from this this group. We had a very wide ranging and robust conversation. Since COVID, our neighborhood has seen a higher negative impact of the oversaturation of drug treatment facilities, which has resulted in additional drug use and sellers that prey on the drug users that coupled with gang and crew violence resulted in a proliferation of shootings and blood and feces and blood that our children have to step over. How are you going to bring back police enforcement and community group activity to address these issues? Thank you. We met 125th Street was a mess from river to river. We met with a group of stakeholders and Congressman Adriano Esviat and the police department, the police commissioner and I. We walked the streets to see what was happening there. There are two safe injection sites that are located here in this area. We are attempting to speak with H&H to see if we can move safe injection sites to hospital facilities. We're navigating the laws around that. But we are also we are we are also we put the command center here. We you see a visible law enforcement present. We can announce in a partnership with Norman Siegel and some other volunteers that want to come out and engage with people on the street, on the ground to give them the services they need. Laws as the as the chief state, the chief court restated. Laws don't allow us if someone does not want to move, there's some restrictions on what the police officers can do. We don't want to criminalize those who are dealing with substance abuse. We want to give them the assistance that they need. And we don't want to over saturate this community. Like this community has been over saturated. When I go over to host food, you have all of these treatment centers in the same location. Everyone is there. Everyone is sitting around. And that's just really destroyed this community. And we need to correct that and have a better balance. And what's what's taking was taking place. So we identify that problem. We've met with the leaders and we are coordinated with the leaders in the community on how we could deal with the drug use is problem of that's here. Thank you. Next person Angelica. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. We had a very passionate discussion. And this table is actually very concerned with the behavior of residents in shelters, supportive housing. And they would like to have a shelter community liaison who they can talk to, to mediate instead of calling the police, as well as having quarterly meetings to address concerns. Is that possible? Yes, we have Gary Jenkins here, the commissioner. We visit shelters outside, inside. Gary Jenkins have been doing so. And so we hear you and Gary, you want to respond to that? It's a simple response. It's yes. So please see me after the meeting and we exchange information. But it's a yes. We also have Mitch Katz. Dr. Katz is from H&H. I know he's on the line. I'm here, sir. So there's a real partnership with H&H and HRA to deal with these homeless issues in a real way. Next table with Valerie. Good evening, Mayor. My table is filled with dedicated parents who feel that they're unable to take their children to their local parks due to the blatant drug usage, XX needles left behind, and homelessness. What can the city do to increase safety in our parks? We want to take, turn it over to the great Sue Donahue for her to respond to that. Now, young people, before y'all leave, I hope someone left us a number. Okay, okay, good enough. Okay, I got it. Okay, understood. Thank you, Mayor Adams. And thank you all for that question. And it is a good one, and it's an important one. And I think Chief Corey addressed it earlier. We worked very closely with NYPD. We have our own Parks Enforcement Patrol officers on the ground. And this administration has worked hard to make sure that we have budget available to have more of those PEP officers. And that partnership with NYPD is really important, and we work really hard to make sure that we are coordinating and that we are on the ground and really on top of where there are problem sites. We identify them. We work with PD. And we are part of that homeless outreach task force that was mentioned. We are addressing sites. We are part of, we keep a very, very close list along with the administration with PD. And we are actively always looking to be on top of both areas where there are homeless and also making sure that we have our PEP officers and our partnership with PD to make sure our parks are safe. The other thing that we are very active on is programming and working with community partners out there in the community to provide great programming in our parks. We know that where there are people, where there's activities, our parks are safer. And so we work with community groups all across the city to make sure that we can provide great programming as well. And if you have a particular park that you're seeing, a quality of life issue, please let Chief Corey or Chief Banks or our Commission of Parks let them know because we want to stay on top of that. And the eyes and ears of those who use the parks can give us the best information. And we want to encourage friends of park groups. We want to encourage you to adopt a park and be a friend of the park like we've witnessed in other parts of the city. So those friends of the parks groups, they do an amazing job to advocate for resources, to clean the parks, and really help what the commissioner is doing with the limited resources that she has. Next table, Lamona. Good evening, everyone. One of the friends of Parks is at my table. She's very happy you said that, Mayor Adams. This is the question. There's an over saturation of drug rehab facilities in Harlem and East Harlem. 75% of the people that attend these facilities do not live in Harlem. The table want to know what will you do to create fair share distribution of methadone centers throughout New York City? After I won the primary, I came up to Harlem and I met with a group of Harlem homeowners and we walked the streets and they're right. The drug treatment centers from some of the private hospitals, when you start to look at the centers popping up all over the place, it really changed the quality of life, particularly on 125th Street. And as I stated, around Whole Foods. So we must make sure that these centers are distributed in an equitable fashion and we don't over saturate Harlem. This issue is on our radar and we really must come up with a solution and we want to do that in combination with the local electives that are here. I don't know if legislatively we can ensure that only a certain number of locations are cited. We have a law around liquor stores being close to schools and what have you. I think we need to look at what we can do legislatively that we don't over saturate communities like we're doing now. Next table Anastasia. Good evening all, good evening Mr. Mayor. Our table would like to find out why a person with mental health disability who was removed from subway station by NYPD and taken to the hospital is back on the street the very next day. Are there additional investments to be made for programs or facilities which provide sustainable services to the people with mental health issues? We're going to hand it over to the great Dr. Ashwin who's down on the right. He came from Fountainhouse. I fought hard to get him on our team. He had the right approach to dealing with mental health issues. Dr. Thanks for the question and thank you for having me in your community. This is a wonderful discussion. I think you're absolutely right. Hospitals can only do so much to treat our mental health crisis and what happens after a hospitalization. We're working hard. Dr. Katz, his team, Brian Stettin who just joined our administration and Deputy Mayor Willems Eisen working hard to expand access to those beds which have been for far too long too hard to find for people experiencing mental health crisis but what happens next? I think a lot of what we forget about is that people need a roof over their head and the work that Jessica Katz is leading, Chief Housing Officer Jessica Katz is leading across the city to expand access to supportive housing is a huge step forward in expanding the access to supportive housing for people with mental health conditions. You have to get people access to healthcare and psychiatry in the community. So those are two pillars of helping someone stay in the community and stand on their own two legs. But if you look at a stool, what's that third leg of the stool and the third leg of the stool is community and breaking isolation. Too often people with mental health challenges have suffered from deep, deep isolation. They're more isolated than some of you can imagine, I think. And we need to build programs that break isolation, bring people out of the shadows and there are examples of this all across the city. Fountainhouse is just one but I think over the coming weeks, months and years you're gonna see us invest in that kind of social infrastructure to bring people out of the shadows, keep them connected and visible so they don't go into that next crisis and end up again in the hospital or worse yet in our jails and prisons. Excellent. Next table. Alexandra. Good evening. Our group recognized that... I'm sorry. There's duplication of services and communities and some are not adequately funded. Smaller orgs don't always have the opportunity to grow. What is the strategy for connecting the various agencies and CBOs that impact youth and seniors, housing, et cetera to most effectively serve the community? Sure, I can answer that. And we see that all the time. As you said, smaller organizations not getting access to the funding they need, not being able to build and grow, duplication or gaps. So one of the things that we're doing is creating the mayor's office of nonprofits that is really going to be focused on building that critical capacity and infrastructure making sure our nonprofits are treated as partners, right? Not yes. Hallelujah. Making sure they get paid on time by the city because unfortunately for years nonprofits have been providing services for over a year and not even getting paid one dime for their services until, you know, the missing payroll and all of these things. So it's a huge effort. We started from January. We bought together 10 agencies and there was about $5 billion that the city owed nonprofits for work that they had already done. And we are moving through that backlog where over $3 billion in resources are unlocked and we're really going to fix the problem. We can't get done any of these things that we're talking about without nonprofits. They are critical, critical partners and we have to treat them as suck. Next table, we have Mia Sotas. Thank you so much, Mr. Mayor. I just wanted to highlight that the table here, everyone knows they're commanding officers and they're precincts. So this is the... I just want to just big shout out to Chief Kiran from Housing Police who's been with us for 30 years. Now, our table has several questions. The first one is, what is your plan, Mayor, to work with city, state and federal entities to address systemic issues? One of the main concerns right now is domestic violence. What is being done? What are your ideas to prepare the NYPD in working with grassroots and healthcare professionals to get families the help they need? And also lastly, as Francisco was leaving and as I spoke about, we talked about pedestrian safety and what is being done from also the small businesses as the bodegas are being held up and what can be done to improve pedestrian safety. So again, it's about pedestrian safety, domestic violence and what is being done to work with NYPD and putting together a collaborative effort that fits into the city, state and federal entities ways of addressing systemic issues. And it's crucial that we have that partnership with the city, state and feds. That is crucial. And we have done just that. The relationship with Governor Huckle and I is clear that we are working well together, everything from our transit safety plan to how we're dealing with public safety. She was extremely helpful as we push forward some important agendas up in Albany. And the same with our congressional delegation. I think something that's often missed, we survived COVID because of our congressional delegation. Our congressional delegation was able to bring in much needed resources that were still living off of the resources that they were able to get because of President Biden and our congressional team that went to Washington D.C. and fought for much of the stimulus dollars that we saw. We're in this together. And it's about building those relationships. It's about coordinating with all of our groups together to make sure we can bring resources into our city and not only in the village of Harlem but throughout the entire city. So that is the relationship we've done. This administration has done an excellent job in doing so. The countless number of conversations with the Biden White House, bringing Biden here to the city to sit down and carve out some of our public safety agendas. We did not get the earned income tax credit passed without Governor Hoku. The child care dollars, Governor Hoku, the gun legislation that just passed Governor Hoku. And in all of those areas we've been a partner with her and we're going to continue to build that partnership. We've had too many years of governors and mayors not being able to communicate with each other. It's by time for governors and mayors to be able to communicate with each other. Thank you. Next table. So next table we have Miguel. Thank you Mr. Mayor and the leadership upon the dais. I'm going to turn over the mic to a youth leader here to ask the question. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Taquia Sumter. I'm a Cure Violence Worker with Street Corner Resources. My group, we had a great conversation this evening. We concur with everything relating to vocational services as well as youth related activities. Yet we conclude with the question as to will you allocate direct funding for safety that looks like nitro vertical patrol, transit patrol as well as adequate DOE based security reassurance? I'm going to need you to break that down for me a little. When you said vertical, like doing vertical patrol. Like we used to do back in the days. Okay. Building from top to bottom. Okay, got you. You want to talk on that Chief Curry? All right, thank you. So we're still doing vertical patrol and housing and if you're not seeing it in the developments where you are then please let me know that because that should be going on and it should be going on on a regular basis. That should be happening every single day. All right, well, we're going to fix that then. How about that? So if you're not seeing that then we're going to fix that starting right now. And you mentioned transit as well. So I can tell you that every day in addition to the officers that are in transit we assign another 350 officers a day that are normally assigned to non-enforcement duties down in the subway. But back in January we went a step further and did something we've never done before and we took those sector cops that normally patrol the streets of the neighborhood and we make them go down and check the subways when they pass by. So that's about 1,550 a day so more than 10,000 a week that happened that weren't happened before that those officers parked the car they go down to train station they walk around they make sure everything's okay they come back up and they go back on patrol again. So that's going on each and every day that doesn't require any additional funding we don't need more money we'll always take the money from the mayor so maybe I'm picking my own pocket but we don't need any extra money and we're going to fix the housing problem right now. And so that's important with what Chief Corey stated so traditionally we had three departments and then the merger came but we never merged ourselves mentally and so a patrol bureau the precinct level officers would drive by a train station because they believe that's a transit issue what we said in January no you are now going to park your car walk down into the subway station and see if there's a problem down there because that's in your precinct so we have now had hundreds of thousands of patrols in our subway stations that the precinct personnel is doing so and so the same should be done with NYCHA there's no reason there's no imaginary border from not being able to go in NYCHA and do a vertical if that NYCHA development is within your precinct boundary don't say you're waiting for the officer that's assigned to housing no park that car get out and do a vertical that's partnership that we are talking about no more silos and territories we're all in this together and that is what we need to do and so you just gave me an idea that's a new initiative we want just as we do the subway inspections chief we want our precinct personnel to also do those vertical patrols in NYCHA if they're not doing that also thank you next table we have Ed so our table touched on a lot of the issues that have already been brought up but one specific thing that we had to ask is how can we increase community involvement in things like language access and homeless outreach it's very important to have people from the community addressing these issues no one is going to be able to talk the person off of the street corner and into the shelter than somebody from that community and nobody else is going to be able to translate what that person is saying better than somebody from that community is there any programs we can do to increase that when you look at this team up here of people who are sitting here of my administration these are people throughout my years of being an activist I took notes on them and said that when I become mayor in 2022 I'm going to bring them on my team and one of them I'm really happy to have and that's the commission of mayor's office of immigrant affairs he has done this work for so long and to have him here Manny is a legend he's a legend in this field of work and having him as part of our administration is going to make us smarter in the services so Manny if you want to go through that thank you mayor Adams thank you for your words and this is one of the most critical issues for our office and our administration and I am so proud to serve as commissioner along with these commissioners in this administration because we truly look like New York and that's where you start you start by building a leadership that knows about language access knows about the importance of communicating with all New Yorkers including all our immigrant New Yorkers recently arrived those who perhaps are undocumented are in the shadows and I'm working closely together to put together a language access plan that truly addresses the issues of reaching out to those most vulnerable and those who have been forgotten for many years so you have our commitment that this administration will have a plan and will be executing language access like never before thank you thank you so now I just want to sometimes say save best for last we have our mayor's community affairs unit Manhattan North Borough Director so everyone in this room should get to know Tiffany Brown thank you good evening mayor and everyone for coming and thank you for coming out tonight my tables question is will you support and spotlight the bill to increase accessibility for public bathrooms please share top quality of life issues your administration is working on and how how the community will be able to fill the work we are looking at some of the nice public bathrooms that are in other countries and that is something we want to look at because people say don't take care of your business outside but we should have some public bathrooms so you don't have to so we moved away from that years ago and so we are looking at the street designs and focus on how do we come up with these very clean safe public bathrooms when I travel abroad we see that they have good clean safe public bathrooms and I am glad to let you raise that because that is a quality of life issue that we can address so we should look at accomplishing that task during this administration that is something we are going to turn over to Sue over at parks to think of some ideas and some of our others to come up with some real good ideas designing construction so we are going to put together a little team and look at what other countries are doing around access to public bathrooms and so I think that was our last table here is the here is the charge number one we are going to host a citywide youth sit down in conversation like this we need you to reach out to the young people in your community so they can be a part of that number two we did this when I was the bar president 100 dinners across the city 10 people at each dinner each person coming from a different ethnic and cultural background so we can do something revolutionary and that is talking to each other we want to engage in conversation because the good people of this city we are not talking to each other we don't even know each other we walk past each other we have great ideas it is time for us to engage ourselves so we will hope that each one of you will decide to host a dinner it could be in a park at a restaurant at your home it doesn't matter it is all about the human engagement not about the dinner lastly all of my precinct commanders can you please stand up and just say your name or command you are from you need to know the men and women who are in charge of your policing personnel so please stand up and we have chief OB that is here chief please stand so these are these are the men and women who are responsible for ensuring of the safety of your community and you should know them you should know your platoon commanders you should know your youth officers you should know your auxiliaries you should know your detectives for far too long that building that occupied the precinct people felt as though that was not part of an extension of the resources of your community that is not true these are your officers these are your officers and if you go in and introduce yourself to the commanding officer before something jumps off then you already have that relationship we don't know each other enough and trust me their job is a difficult job no one invites the police to the birthday party they invite them when the party was shot up so if you only know someone during terrible times you begin to identify them as bearer of bad news so let's change that dynamic let's start being proactive and knowing who they are my clergy that's in the room let's start inviting our precinct commanders and their team to the churches so your parishioners can see who they are the block association that's the type of administration we're going to have there's no better relationship than you can have with a police department that's responsive to the needs of a community if someone crosses the line and tarnish the shield they're not going to serve in this department we are going to make sure that people lift up the nobility of public protection you are not going to abuse your authority and we will turn our backs that is not going to happen so in the spirit of Rivera and Mara two two young men who place their lives in harm's way so that they can protect us let's recommit our lives to protecting the people of this city together I thank you for coming out tonight let's continue to build together this is the beginning this is not the ending we want to look at your ideas we want to encourage you this team that's here that we assembled together to serve you we are here to serve you thank you very much CAU representatives make sure to collect all of the Q&A cards