Remarks by Joanna Katz
234 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 10
- Play at 29:50
“Depends on what is planned. It could be something not that doesn't take hours and hours. Even just something like a big canvas where as the evening's going on, people come up and just paint a little more on it or do something, you know, whatever it is, it can be.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 30:56
“Just a question that I'm probably very wrong about, but I know that there's been a lot about pediatricians are kind of handcuffed and are not allowed to ask certain questions. They can now. They can now. Okay, so we're allowed to ask and do anything regarding guns. Not anything, but things regarding guns and what we talked about.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 32:58
“So it sounds like we're not going to come up with anything to add to the agenda of the night. We may not need to. It's just a matter of maybe it will cover some of the expenses if Parks and Rec, doesn't have that, well, I would like to, through the chair, maybe do we need to say we're going to cover whatever expenses for water or anything else that needs to be purchased to make the event nice. Is that a word?”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 33:31
“Well, I don't know if we need that. It sounds like you've got the...”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 35:23
“I'll make a motion to cover miscellaneous”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 35:53
“Yeah, anything, I would say, sorry, through the chair, if, if, I would like to see maybe if we do get involved in anything that maybe has something to do with Aria, just because the police can take care of any of the, you can take care of explaining what you do, and the police can do that, and maybe we just, if there is something since it is on or around her birthday, maybe just one more thing that we do there is for her.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 40:17
“I enjoyed it. Tremendously, and I think the most importantly in the sanitation workers public works department. They seem to really enjoy it. I love Flanagan's. They really did a great job. They gave us the coins for free drinks, so we played trivia. different street names and then we gave points to the people who have been there the longest and then everyone got coins and it was just really, really fun and a bunch of us were there and it was just, I thought, a great day. I enjoyed it so much. You emceed it perfectly.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 40:56
“And now even more, I always got love from our sanitation department, but now when I see them... Now you're the queen, yes.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 41:14
“As I told them, when people say... They're schmoozing. When people say, why do you live in this perfect town? And I say, people think it's the beach. because having our trash picked up as often as it is is such a joy, and they take everything. I've seen the roads too often. I've lived other places where it's not the case, though.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 41:49
“Yeah, I'll maybe stop it. We use their a lot, though. I'm embarrassed to say, but I'll stop there and mention again, the manager was great.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 42:28
“She could sell her locks. Frank, what do you think about that? I think they could be free. combining the resource fair with the gun education.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 43:13
“That sounds really appealing to maybe have more for each of the events. If some people are just coming for the wishing tree, you'll come to the gun prevention too.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 43:30
“I have, yes. I've been speaking to Tamara Oppenheimer. And she has a list of resources of phone numbers for us. And I haven't gotten the list yet because it's been a lot of the holidays. But she is getting us a list of everyone. She's the... social worker for Beach High, so she has a ton of good contacts. I already have some communication going with the children's bereavements, and then poison control. We've got a doctor we know who's the I think we have other ones that we've all talked about here, but yeah.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 45:22
“I was the mental health coordinator, parent coordinator at Beach High when my kids were there. And so we would do a mental wellness and physical wellness program. And we had all of the, it was really, really impactful. So we had psychologists, all different people from different organizations come in and they're amazing. They'll sit one-on-one and talk to people and tell them all the different things that their organizations can do for children and adults. And I think I envision a little bit like that, where it's just, you can go up, interact, they'll give out brochures, sometimes they bring…”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 48:09
“We've had somebody doing self-defense classes.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 51:08
“Yeah. So just back to what we originally were talking about, some things that at the library in Massachusetts were expensive in time. Just telling you some of the things. I have a paddle ball set. They have a karaoke machine. They have a pasta machine. They have a metal detector. They have a bunch of tools and they have some other electronics and other things. But I just really think that, you know, I talked a little bit just to go back to it with the vice mayor about when the time comes maybe to pitch what's going to be happening with the house that we bought, maybe this is in the house that…”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 53:06
“Yeah, the collecting of the items, whether some of them are donated. I know some people would love to get rid of their pasta machine that's taking up space in their kitchen. I have some things that could probably be useful that I would be happy to donate, and then we could fill it and we'd find things on.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 53:23
“Yes, exactly. It really wouldn't take up a ton of space and I think could be really useful for, I know the big thing is also manning it, but I don't think we necessarily have to have it fully manned.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 53:51
“If you're at a yard sale and you see a croquet set, you just say, oh, here's a croquet and put it there. It could be anything. I think it just kind of goes back to what we are which is a community driven branch of this to get people doing things that they have always wanted to do but don't have the space in their home or the storage for these things. So I think that is a good place for it if anyone else has ideas and I know it might be a while before we actually have access to this place but The vice mayor thought it was a great idea, and I did as well.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 54:44
“Right now it is, but I think they really want to... It's being rented month by month. Month by month, exactly. So at any point, it can be taken back over by the community, and I think they just have to have some ideas that... They'll find out what to do with it.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 55:05
“show that we're in favor of taking this building absolutely happy to okay so i'll just put on the agenda for this month the book clubs exactly this is what we're saying if it's if this space is it can be so many things that um we run out of space as we've talked about between the community center and 96th street park we run out of so if we can have one more space to do things whether it's a book club or people learning to play chess or whatever it is. Archives. Okay. All right, very good.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 56:29
“I think it was supposed to be in November, which is not going to happen. So I think we need to push it off for a bunch of reasons. I think we need to brand it, rebrand it to be not to feel too controversial. We want it to feel positive. I think we have a lot of stuff on the agenda in general for the town. Why don't we think about pushing it off a little bit past the new year? and maybe February, maybe March, and just keep figuring out how it's going to look. I think we also, the schools just came back in August, and they are busy. They start to slow down a little bit at a certain point, so we…”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 57:46
“Definitely. And, you know, if adults are not wanting to do it, then maybe we do have our teenagers involved. as the ones showing adults how it's done.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 58:02
“You're right, you're right. Yes, that could be actually even better. So I think we can maybe then partner with the youth council, we can figure out different ways to do it, but I think it's okay pushing it off for sure.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025
- Play at 58:31
“Yeah. Because he has to present to the commission too. And it would be good to hear his input on how it's going to best be palatable.”
Community Relations Board · Oct 16, 2025