Remarks by Amina Bey
14 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
“Thank you, council president. Um, again, I want to echo my council colleagues saying, I appreciate this. Um, we know this is legal dumping all over the city. Every time our team goes walking in the central ward, there's always some kind of complaint, um, something going on. My question is, and I don't know if you can answer it today, but if something that we can mull over when we have, uh, people who are doing, um, renovations or construction or, or some type of work on your home or on your business, And then the contractor or whoever, the person that's working, they dump things off or…”
“Thank you. Thank you, Council President. Thank you, Manager Murphy. We just want to get the... a concise, clear process of how council members or our aides or members of our team can report violations, get information, and also get training on having access to the system so we can see what's going on. Because everybody does things differently. If we have a relationship with you, we can call, we can text. People send an email. It's all different. So we just need to know what the direct process is to report, whether it's for the council members, for aides, and get training for our aides as far…”
“Okay. So what about the process to report violations?”
“So is that what it is across the board? Because whatever the process is, we need to have something in writing that's sent to all of the council members so everybody can be clear. So we're all doing the same thing the same way. Because what happens is, is that sometimes people say, well, they respond to you, but they don't respond to me. Well, this gets through, but this doesn't. And so if there's not a set process and it's not clear and concise and something that's official in writing, things may get lost and fall through the cracks. And right now with everything that's going on, we can't…”
“Thank you, Council President. Thank you so much, Director. Really appreciate it. Thank you for the time that you're taking with me and my team, you and Manager Murphy, really trying to help us get through some things. I just want to just follow up on what I mentioned before when Manager Murphy was at the mic. I know that we have to go through, IT has to set it up, but they need to get it from you that it's okay to provide read-only access to ClickFix and the Fast Track Gov so we can follow up on violations because we file a report or we make a complaint or we send out information on behalf of…”
“Thank you, Council President. Just in case they have to leave before the end of the meeting, we want to acknowledge the students, faculty, and staff from Michelle Obama Elementary School that are here for our council member of the day in the Central Ward. So we just want to welcome them. They've been here all day. I want to thank everyone that spent some time with them and they got a tour. And we just want to thank the teachers and the principal and the faculty and staff for making it possible for them to be here today. And of course, thank my council team, especially my chief of staff, Tolu…”
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“So I don't have any information on that, but if you could... Please give my chief of staff your information and we can do some follow-ups since this is an essential award.”
“They denied to Councilwoman Banks. That's what I was going to say. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilman Silver said for a reason. Yes. So, yes. So they kept having a question about property lines as far as putting it. But we're still pushing back and working on it. So if you could just hold tight for a few minutes, I can come and update you.”
“I know. She wouldn't, you know. It's some other stuff, but we don't want to break the record. Okay, thank you. So we'll, just hold tight. Okay. I'm ready for you. Thank you.”
“Yes, thank you so much. I just want to give you my information, and I want to get yours. You said that you sent the email. I haven't seen it. I'm not saying that you didn't see it, but I haven't seen it yet. But I definitely will look at it, and we can talk.”
“Thank you, Council President. And my mama says save her a ticket, Councilman.”
“I just wanted to announce the seventh annual Newark Emergency Services for Families World Homeless Day in Lincoln Park this Friday. It's been a phenomenal event. I want to thank. I am so incredibly grateful to the city of Newark, specifically the Department of Public Safety. Thank you so much. The Office of Emergency Management, Department of Public Safety, recreation, Newark City Parks, and, of course, my council colleagues that have always supported it. And we have this year, last year we had over 1,000 residents that we served on house and just people who are in need. And we have over 67…”
“I'm sorry. That's my fault. I was not clear. My fault. I'm so sorry. Okay.”