 Good to see you all. Sorry for the delay, we had an emergency that was happening. Today I am holding hearings and bills signings on five bills that help struggling homeowners give young people a voice in juvenile detention, supports our families and children in shelters, and provides support for our gun violence interrupters. Well, we know that many New Yorkers are struggling right now. Rent is going up and borrowing from one of the most prophetic voices, the rent is too damn high. And we need to do something about it. People are worried about whether they can keep a roof over their heads. And we know that homeowners are struggling to pay property taxes despite making good faith efforts. We want to give homeowners some relief. That is what we are doing with this bill. Really proud of this bill, intro 524, lowest interest rates applicable to installment agreements for the payment of property tax arrears. And we know what it's like and we hear it all the time. And I'm sure my council member colleagues was hear from their homeowners and throughout their districts that this is an extremely important problem and this is our way of taking the many layer approach to addressing it. Entral 436 creates a juvenile justice advisory board, public safety is key. Standing here next to the public safety chair, councilwoman Hanks, she talks about it all the time. How do we find that balance? And since coming into my office, one priority has been ending the gun violence in our city, but we know that we can't do this alone. Our crisis management system and our violence interrupters are doing the sacred work on the ground. Day in and day out, they are working with our communities and they continue to contribute to making them safe. We want to ensure that they are performing at their full capacity. We want to see how we can duplicate their efforts through the city and help improve their work. And these two bills help us do that. Entral 439 requires the mayor's office of criminal justice to evaluate the performance of criminal justice programs that receive funding. And Entral 756 provides training and support for nonprofit service providers participating in the city's crisis management system. And now last, we want to also make sure that our children in shelters are protected. Last night, we know 1,000 of children slept in shelter beds and the average family experiencing homelessness now stays in a shelter for the better part of two years. No one can be expected to thrive mentally and emotionally if they don't know where their next bed, paychecks or next meal will come from. Too many of our families and children in our shelters have fallen through the cracks when it comes to mental health care. And so today we're going to ensure that they have the support they need. And that's Entral 522. It ensures a mental health worker at the 30 largest families with children's shelters for onsite and telehealth. This is real partnership on the part of the city council. And I really want to thank speaker Adrian Adams, council member Hanks, Williams, Steven, Bacha and Carr. And my commissioner of ACS, commissioner Dan, Dan Hauser, Howard and Nyblac and director Logan, as well as the following advocates, Mike Perry, True to Life, Malcolm White, True to Life, Christine Quinn, Women in Need and Hannah Tanger, Women in Need. We want to now open the floor up to the public for questions before the end of the bill. No questions, always good to see that. And so I want to now just hear from our council members. They have been real partners in this area and I just really want to thank them for their commitment and dedication to getting this right. I want to call on now council member Hanks, sponsor of Entral 756 to make a few remarks. Good morning and thank you so much, Mr. Mayor. I'm really happy to be here as my first bill of 2023. So I want to thank Mayor Eric Adams for signing this important piece of legislation and for recognizing the need to support the city's crisis management system. Having founded my own not-for-profit years back, I can understand and appreciate the challenges in running an organization while delivering the much needed services to our community. And that's why I'm proud to be sponsoring Entral 756, which will provide capacity building, crucial training and operational support to our CMS providers. This bill represents a significant achievement in strengthening our crisis management system and creating safer communities for all New Yorkers. Investing in their capacity and operations will ensure that they have the tools they need to reduce gun violence and to promote conflict resolution. I want to take a moment to thank the crisis management team from my district, True to Life, for the incredible work that they do in my district every day. The work of Malcolm Penn and Iron Mike are transforming lives of young people every day. And I just want to take this moment out to acknowledge them and my team and everyone that's behind me, my colleagues who are just having incredible bills today. Thank you. Thank you. And I want to bring on Council Member Williams, Sponsor of Entral 439, to say a few words. She's not here. You wanna say something on behalf of her? I can't. You know, we'll see which other bill I also want to bring on Council Member Bacha, Sponsor of Entral 522, to say a few words. Council Member. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm so excited to be with you here for the signing of my third bill, which will put mental health services into every family shelter in New York City. This is gonna make a profound difference in the lives of the 13,000 families with over 22,000 children who slept in our shelter system last night. Right now, only nine of the city's 247 family shelters have on-site mental health services. That's not acceptable to me. And I know it's not acceptable to you, Mr. Mayor. So this legislation is gonna address a major failing of our system. And look, our system has failed so badly on the issue of mental health. So badly. We have a two-tiered mental health system. We have a system for people with insurance, with good insurance, people of means. We have a system for everyone else. And I'm someone who has benefited from this system. I spent a month in a mental health hospital when I was 15 years old, following a series of suicide attempts. That treatment that I got at Four Winds Hospital is why I'm alive today. But that treatment is unavailable to most Americans, especially people living below the poverty lines and people of color. So I'm so proud to be able to make use of the position I have today to make sure that everyone gets access to mental health services. And I want everyone to know that this bill is an example of government working. It started a year ago at a panel discussion held by Wynn, the largest provider of shelter services for women and children in New York, hosted by Christine Quinn, the CEO, where she identified a major problem that they're facing. And over the past year, we worked with Wynn and other nonprofits and crafted this legislation. We negotiated this legislation with the administration. And the administration pointed out, rightfully, the logistical challenges with having physical staff in every family shelter. So this legislation embraces the innovative use of telehealth in reaching all shelters. I wanna thank Speaker Adams, Deputy Speaker Diana Ayala and Linda Leitch are the mental health committee. And I wanna thank my staff for working so hard on this and all the staff at Wynn who are here today and Christine Quinn, the CEO. I wanna thank the mayor's administration. And I wanna thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your leadership on the issue of mental health and for helping us achieve a society where no one goes without the services that they desperately need. Thank you so much. Really thank you for your comments, Councilman. I don't think there's a greater part of what we do than when we could revisit some of the painful experience that we have went through and able to use our roles as lawmakers to come back and fix some of the problems that we personally experience. And I thought your comments were extremely powerful. And I thank you for sharing because I'm pretty sure there's those out there that's going to hear them and realize that there's opportunities. And so I really thank you for that. And we can't do anything without going up to the Bronx. Until 4.36, Council Member Stevens. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And thank you for acknowledging the wrongs because we always in the house. So when I worked with you, many of them felt like their voices weren't heard or the candidates that were running didn't take their considerations into forethought when they were running. So today I'm here to tell our young people, your voices matter. And you have elected a person who fights for you and makes sure that your voices are heard. I'm so excited to be here today and passing Intro 4.36 with my colleagues to create a juvenile justice advisory board to ensure that juveniles involved youth and their families have a seat at the table when decisions are being made. It is so important for actions of our agencies and administrations to be afforded by the lived experience of our friends, neighbors, and especially our young people. Although I'm proud to be passing this bill, it's just the first step for us to look forward to working with our advisory board to develop new preventative measures. We must get to a place where we are investing in our young people on the front end so we're not investing in them on the back end. So I wanna take this time to thank our speaker, Adrienne Adams, for seeing the vision in this bill, our committee staff, my staff, and also our mayor, Eric Adams, who also have been fighting for young people throughout the city to ensure that their voices are heard and we are taking everything into consideration. Thank you so much. And the borough that will be never forgotten under this administration. Actually, we have two Staten Islanders here today. You know that? I saw one turn to... LAUGHTER What am I gonna do with you? Well done. Well done. And we're gonna bring on our good council member, council member, Carl, Sponsev-Entero 524. Good to see you, man. Thank you. It's a great day for Staten Island and the whole city with the passage of Intro 524a. I just wanna begin by congratulating my colleagues who are passing, have seen legislation signed into law today by the mayor. You know, Intro 524a puts an end to a longstanding dilemma that's existed really since we've been setting interest rates for non-payment of real property taxes. Do we set a high rate and try to deter and punish tax golf laws? Or do we set a low rate so that we can help struggling homeowners who maybe had a bad year, maybe they're not making what they need to stay in their home, maybe there's some legitimate reason why they're in tax arrears and do we set a low rate to help them get out of the hole? And those options have been mutually exclusive. But that ends today with the signing of Intro 524a. Finally, the banking commission will be able to recommend and the council will be able to adopt a separate rate for those who are in property tax payment plans and are making good faith efforts on those payments to get themselves out of the tax arrears hole that they've been in. And so finally, instead of them being dumped on and being able to just never get out of this tax debt, it's gonna be finally easier for them to get out of that hole and then move on with their lives and be in good tax standing with the city and then we'll be able to set a separate rate for those who are not doing that and who are not good actors. And so I wanna thank Justin Brand and the chair of the finance committee, Speaker Adams, all of the staff at the council, my team, the minority leaders office, staff, the finance division. And now of course finally, the mayor for the collaboration engagement of his administration throughout this process and making sure we had the right bill come to the floor and be signed today. And of course for his personal support and making this happen. Thank you so much, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. That's not a problem. And now sign some bills. For one point, I don't need plans. Yeah. Are you supposed to be here by this? The mathematical flies. Even more. So I don't see anyone. OK. That's what you're going to stand out? You have some more pens here? I'm going to take this. OK. Anybody else here from the wrap? Do I have to give you one with a pen? I'm going to do a few with some of your hair. Thank you. Good job. Good job. Thank you. Good job.