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And so although we took immediate actions with our executive order, these, the councilmatic team went and decided with the speaker that we need to do some real work. If not to eradicate incidents like that to alleviate them, we cannot drop the ball and I want each council person to specifically talk about their piece of legislation. I don't want to do that. They did the work. They made it happen. And so I will call them up individually to, you know, talk about their piece of legislation and the energy behind it. And we're holding these hearings and bill signing for five bills to strengthen safety in New York City. The tragedy impacted us and out of tragedy should come change. It should not bring about stagnation. And that's what we did. 17 New Yorkers. We lost, children were included in that at the Twin Park's apartments. We mourned their passing, but mourning the passing is just not enough. Government must do more and must respond better. And so the office of the mayor, the FDNY, the city council, housing, preservation and development, department of buildings, landlords and residents must all work together to prevent a tragedy like this from reoccurring. So we did our executive order. The city council immediately kicked into gear and started putting in place what they saw as some of the legislative changes that we need to do. And Councilman Feliz, thank you for chairing the task force up there and just being thoughtful of how do we make government work. And so I'm proud to have partnered with the city council and I'm proud to sign these bills today. The fire at Twin Park, it was caused by a defective heater and it was caused because of the self-closing doors. When you look at the combination, those are clear things that we can do if we just had the energy. And if the heater would have shut off, if the doors would have closed, we probably would be having a different conversation right now. So today, these five bills, we're going to take action. Intro 104, 105, intro 131, 106, intro 155. All of them are crucial and we're going to call up each council person and allow them to talk about their bills. But at this time, I'm going to call up the partner and this New York City law firms, Adams and Adams, Speaker Adams. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much, Mayor Adams. Thank you for hosting us for today's bill signing. As the mayor said, this package of bills has deep meaning to this council and to our entire city, following one of the worst tragedies in New York City history. The fire at Twin Parks Northwest Department Complex on January 9th was the deadliest fire in New York City since the Happy Land Nightclub fire in 1990. It was also one of the worst residential fires in the United States in decades. It claimed the lives of 17 of our fellow New Yorkers, including eight children. Investigators found several violations and flaws that led to this becoming such a tragedy. And as a result, the city council established the Twin Parks Citywide Task Force for Fire Safety, led by chair, council member Oswald Felice, to address the underlying issues that caused this fire and others. Through the leadership of Chair Felice, as well as the chair of our Committee on Fire and Emergency Management, council member and chair, Joanne Ariola, and Housing and Buildings Chair, Pierina Sanchez, we passed several bills to enact solutions. By signing this package of bills into law, we are putting those measures into place and making New York City safer. As we do our part to decrease future fire tragedies, let's honor those whom we've lost and let's continue to do all we can to protect all New Yorkers from deadly fires. These bills are a huge step forward and we also know there still remains work to do ahead. Thank you again to my colleagues in the council who sponsored these bills, council members Oswald Felice, Pierina Sanchez, David Carr, and Shahana Hanif. And thank you again, Mayor Eric Adams, for signing these bills into law. Thank you very much. Thank you. So why don't we turn it over to our councilmen and women so they can talk about the particular bills that they sign as Julie Menon flows in. First, we're going to bring councilman Felice. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for being here. I am council member Oswald Felice. I want to start by thanking everyone that was there of helping affected families during these times of tragedy. I want to thank our New York City mayor who was working on the ground 24 hours a day, making sure that these affected families received all the resources that they needed. I also want to thank our speaker, Adrian Adams, and all my colleagues in the city council for being great partners in this journey to build a safer New York City. I also want to thank members of our fire department. That Sunday morning, we saw them running towards danger and risking their own lives to save the lives of families that they had never ever met. We're very thankful and we're very grateful for every single firefighter that played a role in helping those families that Sunday morning. Today, we're taking action, action to help resolve the fire safety challenges that continue to plague our city and especially the burl of the Bronx. We have to tackle all the causes of fires as we're doing today by banning the sale of specific space heaters that do not have protections such as automatic shutoffs. We have to tackle all the causes of fires, but at the same time, we have to make sure that families have the tools so that if there is a fire, they can safely escape. The tools so that if there is a fire, they can safely escape. There was one tool that could have prevented that horror that we saw that Sunday morning. One tool that could have prevented that horror that we saw, properly functioning self-closing doors. Had those self-closing doors actually functioned, smoke would not have filled the entire 19 story high rise and those families would have been able to safely escape. The self-closing doors were not properly functioning, allowing this fire to turn into the tragedy that we saw that Sunday morning where we lost 17 innocent lives. These fire safety bills will help ensure that another similar tragedy never happens again anywhere in our city by helping ensure that self-closing door laws are being taken seriously by all. By helping ensure that self-closing door laws are being strictly followed and also strictly enforced. By giving landlords no more than 14 days to fix self-closing door laws, but also requiring a mandatory reinspection to confirm that those self-closing door violations have been fixed and also increasing fines and civil penalties for bad actors, including property owners that falsely state they made self-closing door repairs. Self-closing doors can save lives. Self-closing doors or properly working self-closing doors could have prevented that tragedy that we saw in the Bronx in Twin Parks. Self-closing doors prevent fires and smoke from spreading and from harming families. So I wanna thank all my colleagues that took action to help ensure that the self-closing doors are working and closing and protecting our families. I also wanna thank everyone who joined us in this quest to improve fire safety in the city of New York. Thank you Mayor Adams for signing these very important bills and making them law in the city of New York. I also wanna thank Speaker Adams for making fire safety a top priority for this city council. We were able to move very quickly on these fire safety bills because of the work of all of our colleagues and a city council led by Speaker Adams. And I also wanna thank all of my colleagues who also played a big role in making sure that these bills move as fast as possible. So thank you. I wanna thank everyone for joining us. We're improving fire safety in the city of New York and today we're taking action to making sure that the self-closing doors are actually closing and preventing tragedies. Thank you so much. And for bill 106-8, Councillor Person Hanif. Thank you. Good afternoon everybody. I'm council member Shahana Hanif from Brooklyn and I just wanna give a big shout out to my Bronx colleagues for being so welcoming immediately after the fire and allowing us to support in every way and having a united front on addressing fire and other emergency issues following the tragedy in the Bronx. I wanna first start off by just naming the 17 individuals who were killed and maybe always remember their spirit and their legacy. Sarah Janney, Seidu Turei, Hawa Mahmadoo, Hadi Dukurei, Hada Dukurei, Mustafa Dukurei, Mariam Dukurei, Fatumata Dukurei, Fatumata Dramei, Fatumala Dramei, Nyumaysha Dramei, Muhammad Dramei, Fatumata Tunkara, Omar Jambang, Aisatu Jabi, Haji Jawara, Usmani Kontei. These are the names of the 17 Black Muslim immigrants who were killed in the tragic Twin Parks or Turei Towers fire as my colleagues and I started our term and now six months in today marks a very important day for our city. Big thank you to Speaker Adams for taking this issue urgently and moving quickly and for of course Mayor Adams and his team for moving as quickly too on signing Intra 106A into law. Congratulations to my colleagues who also have bills being signed into law today. I'm so proud to work with colleagues who are proactively invested in keeping New Yorkers alive and safe. I'm gonna give a shout out to public advocate Williams and council member Sanchez, Powers and Feliz for introducing this legislation with me and for council member Feliz, especially for its continued leadership on this issue leading the Twin Park Citywide Task Force on fire prevention in the face of continued immeasurable pain. And of course, thank you to council member and chair Areola for passing it through committee and her leadership in the fire and emergency management committee. The devastating and avoidable Twin Parks fire in the Bronx was caused by a space heater that was on for a prolonged period of time and then overheated. This may seem like a rare thing, but incidents like this are a leading cause of fires across this country. We know we cannot eliminate space heater usage in New York City while landlords have an obligation to their tenants to provide adequate heating. This obligation is often not met and residents are forced to resort to using electric heaters to stay warm. However, we cannot simply accept people will be put in harm's way because of neglect. I'm so proud that we are taking action to end this neglect. Intro 106A ensures that heaters are as safe as possible to prevent future tragedies by requiring all space heaters sold in New York City to be equipped with one, a thermostat, two, an automatic function that disables the heater upon overheating or tipping over, and three, a safety certification from a nationally recognized testing laboratory. These essential pieces of safety technology will significantly reduce the risk of a space heater causing a fire. Finally, I wanna thank the advocacy and work of the grassroots community groups like the Gambian Youth Organization, which sprang into action after the fire and are continuing to support families. Of the 17 victims, all of them were working class West African Muslim immigrants. The work of mutual aid groups and connected networks of Muslim New Yorkers and communities in and outside of the Bronx delivered the care, materials and comfort to dozens of families in the immediate aftermath. They've been tireless advocates for meeting the needs of those affected and addressing the root causes of this avoidable tragedy. So today I'm so proud to stand with our communities to ensure dignified housing and no more deaths in the face of fire. Thank you. And Council person Sanchez. Thank you so much. Thank you so much to Speaker Adams for your leadership and stewarding these pieces of legislation through the council. And of course, to Mayor Adams, you don't have to sign every piece of legislation. You don't have to be there at every tragedy, but on day one, you were and our speaker was. And I think that starting off the year in such a tragic way, at least there was a silver lining that we could all be there together with Council Member Felice. So today, I'm so proud to be having 131A pass, which will expand educational outreach regarding space heaters. It's a sort of companion bill to Council Member Hanif's bill. And it adds increased language access for immigrant communities. Educational outreach by the FDNY reaches thousands of New Yorkers each year, but we know that there are barriers to reaching our immigrant communities, which of course were so impacted on January 9th. So expanding this to include the top 10 languages will ensure that they have access to the information other New Yorkers are receiving. And now this is the first package of legislation that the council is passing in honor and in respect and in response to the Twin Parks fire, but it is just the beginning to be clear. We do not now rest. We continue to improve building and fire safety, holding landlords accountable, modernizing our fire and building codes and ensuring adequate code enforcement is working for all New Yorkers. In fact, there have been so many bills introduced following these bills that were first introduced by the council. And I look forward to working with council members, council members Felice and Ariola to steward these forward. So thank you so much Mayor Adams for signing these into law. And let's get it done. Thank you. And council person car 155-A. Thank you so much, Mr. Mayor. Council member David Carr from what the mayor always and quite properly refers to as the never forgotten borough of Staten Island. So proud to be here among my colleagues seeing this great package of legislation signed into law. You know, we keep hearing that these fires are referred to as tragedies and they absolutely are. They take lives, they take people's homes and they take people's memories with them. And the only thing that we can do to compound the tragedy is to fail to learn and then fail to act. And I'm so proud to be part of this group of lawmakers led by our speaker and our three great committee chairs, Chair Ariola, Chair Sanchez and Chair Felice, along with my colleagues who have bills passed being signed into law today to make sure that we show that we've learned and that we're acting in the wake of the tragic fires, fire in the Bronx. My particular piece of legislation was inspired by a fire in Staten Island where a construction defect in a home led to a fire that devastated a family and then was discovered to be an additional homes in a homeowner's association. So I think the best thing that we can do is to try to help people build back, try to help people correct those defects so that their homes are safe from the kind of fires that ravaged their neighbor and do what we can to make sure that government helps them achieve those goals. And that's what my bill does by trying to wave a fee. I'm particularly confident knowing that the mayor has appointed a great commissioner of buildings to administer that agency and commissioner Ulrich and will faithfully execute this law. And so grateful again for him and his team for making this bill into law today as well again to our speaker and our great committee chairs and congratulations to all my colleagues. Thank you. And we don't get any of these items done without a team. So I just really want to let them have a few words. Some of our councillor persons who are here various on your first and we'll move on from there. Hi everyone. I will actually be super brief. I'm really proud to be here today supporting my colleagues work. My district saw what happened in council member Felicia's community and sprung right into action within the first two or three days. I had thousands of products, hygiene, baby items, clothing, food, non-perishables in my office ready to move into that district. And that's really because the Bronx looks out for their own and we know what it means to have community and it takes a village to really protect one another. And so I'm just here happy to be sponsoring on these bills, happy to be supporting the efforts that were made. And to my colleague, council member Sanchez's note, I also have put in some bills after this realizing the many or the few flaws that we might have in our system because we're so used to being in high density areas and in our city. And so really our responsiveness, Speaker Adrian Adams expedited response and the mayor really taking the culmination of all of that work by signing it in today is a beautiful moment for us. And it leaves us here showing that it's great to act and to act fast, but also how do we look at emergency preparedness in a new way and a new light with all of these bills. So thank you all for joining and thank you for the moment to speak, Mr. Mayor. Appreciate it. And the chair of fire safety, councilwoman Ariola. Thank you, sir. Thank you everyone. I think on the night of the Twin Parks fire wheel stood there in shock and disbelief, but we're New Yorkers, so we took action. Mr. Mayor, thank you for how quickly you signed that executive order. Speaker Adams, thank you for how quickly you move those bills to the city council for introduction to my colleagues. Thank you for putting those bills together. I am co-prime sponsor on two and I'm proud to be a sponsor on the rest. But what you're seeing before you is what can happen when you work in a bipartisan fashion. That's how quickly things can get done. This is a comprehensive package of bills that will save lives. I'm proud to be the chair of fire and emergency management and proud to have shepherded this through our committee. I'm so proud of our committee members who voted unanimously for each and every one of your bills. I look forward to future bills to come before our committee, cosponsoring with you, sponsoring with you and making sure that our city remains safe. Thank you. And finally, the chair of small business services, Julie Menon, councilwoman. Thank you so much, Mr. Mayor. And I really want to thank the mayor and their speaker for their incredible leadership in bringing this package of bills together. I want to thank and congratulate my colleagues, chair Felice, chair Sanchez, chair Areola, chair Hanif, councilmember David Carr. I'm a co-prime sponsor on this. And when I was coming over here, I was thinking about it. I'm a mom of four. And to think about on January 9th, those families, there are eight children that were killed to have that call that you have lost a child. There is no greater pain that you can go through. And so when I think about the work that we do as elected officials, there's frankly no higher calling than protecting lives and particularly protecting vulnerable families and children. So I'm delighted to be here and want to congratulate my colleagues on their leadership. Thank you. Thank you. I want to thank my team, the chief housing office, Jessica Katz, she'll just really get this stuff done. And it's an important HPD commissioner carry on. Thank you. Phil Banks, deputy mayor of Public Safety and acting commissioner of fire department, commissioner Kavanaugh. So let's sign this, you know. I'm sorry I don't want to sign it wrong, but I'm signing here. I hope you have a good year. I'm going to make that go on. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.