WEBVTT - Reflections on the 2021 NYC Election 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.800 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke F Daily with 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:19.239 me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Long Island Bunker. 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.680 You know, I often say to you that you need 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:23.680 to take a break so that you do not have 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:27.960 a breakdown. And with all of the compacted crises that 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.440 we are dealing with at this time and making the 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:36.280 march to midterms, there never seems like the right time 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:40.680 to take a break. But I say that you have 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:45.080 to make that time. 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You know, at the height of 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.960 the pandemic. And I fear to say the height because 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.400 we see that things are changing all around the globe 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.120 and all around Europe. But I will say the height. 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.360 As of twenty twenty, New York City was the epicenter 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:09.440 for crises, and a little bit before that, you decided 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:14.640 to put your hat in the ring for mayor. I 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:19.039 want to know before we start in pandemic talk, what 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.440 howd you decide after your life of living in New 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:27.200 York City, working in New York City, working in different administrations, 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.680 decide to throw your hat in the ring decide that 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.280 now was the time that New York City was not 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.720 only ready for its second right, which is just embarrassing, 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:40.640 its second black mayor, but what would be its first 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:46.680 female mayor and first Black female mayor. Well, first of all, Danielle, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.880 I have to say, it's wonderful to see you, thanks 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.920 to COVID. It has been way too long, and it's 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:56.520 a pleasure to be here at long last. Yeah. Look, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:02.640 you know what can I tell you? Before COVID hit, 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:08.880 this city already was experiencing a pandemic. It was a 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:15.240 pandemic of an affordability crisis. It was a pandemic of 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:22.400 systemic racism. It was a pandemic of division and spiritual 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:30.680 exhaustion that then was deepened, expanded, fast tracked when COVID struck. 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.280 And I think, like so many other women in general, 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:39.920 and women of color, black women in particular, after watching 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:46.000 for years, you know of the need for much more 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:51.160 transformational leadership, leadership that pulls us together but also says 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.920 we're pulling together to do things differently, you know, because 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.360 it can't be that we're simply going back to the 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:03.320 same old toolbox to fix problems. Those tools were never 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:08.160 addressed to fix, and that when COVID hit, and when 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:12.840 so many of our communities, black communities, Latino Asian remember 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:16.040 that New York City as the largest Indigenous population Native 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:20.760 American population urban in the country, that it was our communities, 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.720 all of us were decimated, right, And we should say 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.400 that out loud, because it is true. We're traumatized as 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.880 a city where every aspect of our economy has been 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.960 devastated as a city. But it is also true that 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.920 like in every crisis, every single one, whether it was 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.080 the Great Recession of two thousand and eight or Hurricane Sandy, 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:46.000 that we are always the communities there hit hardest first 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.520 and with the longest lasting impacts. And we are so 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:54.680 critical to this city being what it is, being the vibrant, 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.800 innovative place it is, being the exciting place it is, 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.440 and that we have been at risk of losing that 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.120 for a very long time. And I just as someone 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:07.160 who's spent my entire career committ into dismantling structural racism, 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:11.120 to focusing on what pulls us out of you know, 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.960 the crises that are a crisis of creation. It's not 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:19.880 necessarily natural condition, it's one we recreate and we can change. 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.440 And you know, I just said it's time. It's time 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.960 for change, and I stepped in to make it. You 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.280 know there, I love the term that you use. Just 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:35.720 a a kind of spiritual pandemic, right, A kind of 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:40.320 hopelessness I feel sets in in varied communities around New 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.440 York City. I mean, as it is as it has 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.520 been across the country, but definitely within New York City. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.080 People look to New York right as as a beacon, 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:53.000 I think in many ways. And yet what the COVID 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.800 nineteen crisis did was open our eyes in so many 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.920 ways to the systemic forces that have been at play 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:05.959 that have kept many marginalized communities down right and under 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:10.600 the thumb of egregious systems that would have them there. 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.839 For me, I worked in New York City. I worked 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:20.000 under Mayor Blueberg in the public education system largest in 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.600 the country. And you know what I noticed as we 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.640 are going through this pandemic is just how many young 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.440 people out of the one point two million children that 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.600 are in the New York City public school system don't 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.719 have access to internet. So how were they going to 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.000 be able to learn remotely when we had to make 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.920 this enormous shift when you look at New York City 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.640 public schools, for instance, as just one of the many 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.160 areas that need an overhaul, what do you see as 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.400 some of the first things that need to be done. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.960 Because we know, and I know this from lobbying for 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.680 New York City public schools at the federal level, is 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:00.720 that where New York City as the rest of the 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:04.680 country follows. So what do you think need to happen 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:09.000 after us seeing this pandemic, seeing the fault lines that 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:13.520 have been ignored for so long need to do. Yeah, 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.520 you know, this is such a critical question as someone 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:21.680 who not only went to an overcrowded, underfunded black elementary 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.960 school when I was young and saw firsthand and felt 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.800 firsthand what that felt like, how much it felt like 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:33.119 we didn't matter and we weren't important, how our teachers struggled, 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.600 And then being a public school parent myself with kids 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.240 between the two of them, spent fifteen years in the 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:44.040 public school system, and I navigated everything from elementary school 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.280 to middle school to high school in the public system. 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.760 And it's of deep importance to me because it's fundamental 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.920 to our democracy, frankly, and we have to understand our 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:57.480 public education system as that and New York is it 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:01.599 sees itself as exceptional, right, because we're a miraculous, wonderful 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.320 place where the most diverse in the land, and the 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.840 center of capital, the center of innovation, the center of 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.200 so many things. And we're also the center of segregation, 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.720 where the center of far too few students getting the 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:20.160 education they deserve, and the vast majority being students of color. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.200 And so one of the things I see is what 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:29.600 happened during the pandemic was predictable, were predictable, and so 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.760 that should be the thing that makes us most upset. Right. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.840 We knew before the pandemic that one point eight million 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:42.680 New Yorkers either didn't have broadband access at home or 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.680 lacked a computer or a cell phone or both. Right, 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.959 that is its own pandemic. And as someone as a 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:53.960 racial justice advocate who worked on digital divide issues and 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:58.040 then went into city Hall in twenty fourteen and with 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:02.400 a mayor that said, it's universal broadband is on you. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.600 You're the person who's worked on it before. We want 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.199 communities of color to get what they deserve, and plotting 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.800 out a plan including getting every single apartment in Queensbridge 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:16.040 houses free broadband, finding the money, showing the city it 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:21.599 had the resources and working collaboratively to make that impact 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.160 was so important because what it said is we know 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.600 there's a problem, but we're going to confront it now, 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.439 and there ways for us to do it differently, be transformational. 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.160 I left in twenty sixteen and the rest of the 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:39.000 plans for other public housing developments did not occur, and 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.240 I just think about the lost opportunity there when we 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.320 think about what happened when the pandemic struck. But what 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.000 it also tells us is that we can. We can. 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.920 It just requires leadership that keeps the eyes on that 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:58.000 prize and keeps government working in a way that is 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.040 different from the way it usually works, so that our 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:05.080 students who are in homeless shelters, A We're moving more 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.480 people into permanent housing that's safe and affordable, but be 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.840 that they have, even if they're in transitional housing or shelter, 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.560 have what they need to learn. And that's something we 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.920 can accomplish and that we will lay out a plan for. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.720 But I say it because I've done it, and I 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.960 just you know, getting this year back that our students 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:31.880 have lost, recognizing that that spiritual exhaustion is now trauma 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:36.839 is now trauma, and that that trauma requires trauma informed 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.800 care in our schools because that's about educational outcome. You know, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.280 if we're not treating the whole child and the whole 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.000 family as a unit that has to be engaged in 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.920 there in the child's education, and we're not seeing nutrition 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.400 and we're not seeing mental health as key parts of that, 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.440 we're gonna miss the boat. And so I've also created 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.199 a plan to put trauma inform care in schools and 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.800 have social workers because we have to have students support 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.560 teams that support our kids through all our kids, but 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.719 particularly kids that are in communities that were deeply impacted. 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:12.960 You know, when you talk about trauma care, I you 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.120 know again, I go back to my days in the classroom, 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.320 and everything that you're saying is exactly right. Is that 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.239 you know, we always want to focus on the ABC's, 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.800 but we don't understand that in order to get there right, 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.240 a child would have needed to have a good night's sleep, 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.360 would have needed to have a hot meal, would have 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.360 needed to have you know, the ability to move their 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.960 bodies and get out their energy, and an absent all 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.840 of that ABC's don't come right. Absent understanding what it 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.040 is that parents need, our caregivers need in order to 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.480 be able to parent and care give. We don't do that. 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:51.160 I see schools as community centers, right the center of community. 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.160 And you know, but when I look at where the 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:59.280 investment goes in our cities, where the money goes, there 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.560 is a blatant disparity. And so how do you think 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:07.840 about right sizing right? When we look at right sizing budgets, 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.840 we see and you know, we'll talk in a minute 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.640 about our policing in New York and the criminal justice 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.480 system in New York. But when we look at the 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.720 budget of let's say the NYPD, which is in the 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.840 billions of dollars, right, the six and seven billions of dollars, 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.920 and we look at the largest school district in the country, 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.760 if not in the world, and we don't see that. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.200 We don't see those bees following and following the dollars signs. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.520 How do you begin to right size something that seems 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.400 like there's such an enormous gap for us to close. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:48.000 That is a question I haven't answered to. And I 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.720 do want to focus it on policing because I've already 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:56.280 said and and this is as someone who has a godson, 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.800 who I've been, who lives in public housing, who have 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.840 has been you know, who's had experiences with police officers, 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:07.400 who have cared, but has also been hit by police officers. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.120 Is a child I have had to a young adult now, 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:16.000 but I've had to accompany to court on things like skateboarding, 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.840 on things like being in the park after dark, things 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.520 that are not things that should result in me going 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:27.080 to court with him with my law degree. So number 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:34.440 one because as interrupted his educational experience that has traumatized him, 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:39.320 and he will graduate from high school, but only with 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.840 a lot of support because of those experiences. So we 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.440 want our kids to learn, particularly our black boys and girls, 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.680 who far too often are criminalized in our system or 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:55.640 treated as problems rather than being treated as people deserving 0:16:55.840 --> 0:17:00.640 of support for the problems they have, that we have 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.720 to that we will not be successful, and we can't 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.960 afford to fail our children. So it starts with taking 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.639 eighteen million dollars out of the police department budget and 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:15.439 putting it in participatory justice funds for communities that have 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.240 high rates of gun violence. Because when I had a 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.080 friend who lost his nephew, his nephew was shot and 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.359 killed at four thirty pm in bedsty just going to 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:28.600 the neighborhood store. Now, what the family, in its trauma 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.720 and pain called for was things like trauma informed care, 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:37.520 was more employment opportunities for young people. Was all the 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:41.400 things that are about investing in communities and in our kids. 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:46.720 So that Participatory Justice Fund is one where communities can 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:51.200 say what helps it solve it's problem. So that could 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:55.080 be after school programs, that could be additional trauma in 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.520 foreign care in addition to what I'm going to make 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.560 sure goes into those school tools. That could also be 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:06.080 for more workforce development and other programs that communities want 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:10.280 in their school's mentorship. But the point is communities know 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:15.439 what they need, and the reality is government can be 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:20.000 a different partner by helping provide those resources that community 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:24.679 can direct to problem solving. But the other thing I 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.800 will say is we've already looking at it as a 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.520 caring economy, right because our economy has been broken for 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.800 so many of our communities and people. And so we 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.760 are also going to reduce the incoming class sizes, cadet 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:43.760 class sizes, take advantage of the savings and corrections we're 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:48.639 going to get by not prisoning people for poverty and 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.800 closing rikers, as well as taking some other dollars that 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.640 are still on the table and childcare black rents to 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.240 create community drop off centers for childcare and elder care 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.639 in communities. That also creates care jobs that will be 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.479 union jobs, there'll be good jobs. But we will also 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:12.800 create a five thousand dollars a year grant program for 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:16.199 the neediest families in order for them to care for 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.359 their family members. And we're not good, by the way, 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.400 you don't have to be a documented immigrant to benefit 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:26.080 from that grant, because that's also important for our communities. 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.399 People forget that black community has immigrants too, and that 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:34.240 the immigranty of all races is also our community, our neighbors. 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:39.439 So we'll do that. But that's about investing in opportunity, 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:44.240 investing in solutions, solving problems, and looking at our budget. 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:46.400 And I will tell you that will also produce more 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:50.679 public safety because so much of what we see in 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:54.960 violence is trauma induced. Is induced because it's easier to 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.600 get a gun than a job. We're going to flip 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.560 that script and we're going to focus please on the 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:04.440 job of policing, which is not mental health crisis calls. 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:08.200 It is not running into school buildings. It is less 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:12.680 absolutely necessary, but certainly not for students support needs. And 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.959 we're going to make sure that we have counselors instead 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.400 of cops in our schools and that our kids can 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:22.600 get jobs critically important if we're really looking at what 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.679 investment in our communities mean, and then the police can 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:27.920 focus on things like keeping illegal guns out of our 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.560 city and out of our communities, which is something that 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.679 is absolutely important and that we want police officers to 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.600 be able to focus on. You know, I think that 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.840 we have, over the course of decades conflated what it 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.000 is that we believe that policing was supposed to be right. 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:48.919 And we know the historic the historical understanding and birth 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.560 of policing in this country. But what we have seen 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:54.160 is that much in the same way that I'm talking 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:58.560 about lopsided budgets, you're talking about lopsided justice. Right where 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:02.159 you know your few or godson can be skateboarding in 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:04.440 a park and then end up in a court of 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.399 law and thankfully he had you. But if he hadn't right, 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:10.359 where would he have been? Would he been like Calif Broader, 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:13.000 who would have ended up in Rikers, and you know, 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.040 and the key would have been thrown away, never to 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.600 be heard from again. When we talk about this term 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:24.040 of defund the police right and and and of creating community, 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.760 creating investment in community, we see that there is incredible 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:31.720 pushback from the police. We see incredible pushback from police unions. 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:37.720 And I want to know, how do you both create 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:43.120 a city that is that is equitable in terms of 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.560 the fact that my tax dollars go to funding them police, 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:50.080 just like my white neighbors tax dollars go to funding 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:53.040 the police. Except I would be fearful to call the 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.240 police if I needed them because I don't want to 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:58.280 end up as a hashtag. And so how do we 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:02.840 look at this the readjustment in terms of the relationship 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:05.560 that police have with the communities that they are policing, 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.920 the excess violence that we have seen over the course 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:11.960 of decades with too many black lives lost, and then 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:14.760 also recognizing that we are not putting money in the 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:18.360 right place. But when we talk about defund that spins 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:21.720 off into something else. So how does your campaign, how 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:26.920 would your administration deal with this balancing act that has 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:31.440 been that we've seen play out across the country. Yeah. Look, 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:35.960 I start with it from the perspective of a moral budget. 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:41.000 A moral budget and a moral budget requires us one 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:44.560 to look at how we build revenue effectively, but in 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:48.560 ways that solve problems, not create them. Right, So revenue 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:52.040 generation means thinking about as I said, you know, we're 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:55.159 going to take ten billion dollars, actually didn't say this 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:57.719 part the caring economy is one piece of that. Right, 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:01.359 We're actually putting money back in people's pockets. They can 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:05.640 care for themselves, they can care for their communities. They 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:08.800 can put money back into the economy when we help 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:12.439 them get those jobs, when we help them work because 0:23:12.880 --> 0:23:15.200 or deal with emergencies, because they have a safe place 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:18.240 to leave family members. We also, by giving them those grants, 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:20.920 are ensuring that they can put money back into the economy. 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:23.800 That's good for everyone, and that actually brings revenue back 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:27.359 into the city. Coffers, it's also looking at it from 0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:31.200 what our resources are that we control. That creates more 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:34.080 of those opportunities. So I'm going to spend ten billion 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:39.399 dollars capital construction budget that is separate from the expense budget. 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:41.560 We're often talking about budgeting, is if we don't have 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:45.640 two different budgets, but we do the capital budget. That 0:23:45.680 --> 0:23:49.520 just means money we borrow to build things we need 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:52.919 built and fix things we need fixed. And what do 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:56.680 we need. We need affordable housing that's deeply affordable for 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:59.240 so many of our workers who work hard but can't 0:23:59.240 --> 0:24:02.360 afford the rent. We need, you know, to make sure 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:06.320 that they're creating. We're solving the problem with nitscha. So 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:09.880 we'll put two billion dollars into renovation and rehabilitation. As 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:12.479 I said, my god son lives in public housing. This 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:15.800 ain't be a radical for me. People are unsafe and 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:22.080 unsanitary conditions and they deserve better h green economy, green jobs. 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:25.720 You know how we're thinking about building resiliency when you 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:27.920 know two thirds of our people who are in flood 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:30.719 zones or low income people of color. So these are 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:34.159 all ways where we're fixing problems we have as a city. 0:24:34.520 --> 0:24:37.280 But we're doing it by creating a hundred thousand jobs. 0:24:37.320 --> 0:24:39.879 We're going to do local targeted hiring. We're going to 0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:43.240 think about local procurement buying the things we need for 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:45.560 those projects. We're going to be thinking about how that 0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:50.320 creates jobs for artists and creatives as well, so that 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:54.639 while we're while we're spending and borrowing, to spend in 0:24:54.680 --> 0:24:57.679 a way that is stimulative that we know from the 0:24:57.720 --> 0:25:01.120 Great Recession to the Great Depression has helped us come 0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:04.040 back in the past. We're also going to focus it 0:25:04.119 --> 0:25:07.640 on art what I call communities of concern, which were 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:11.000 the communities that were worse off before COVID, and we're 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:14.680 worse off during COVID, and we'll have a long trajectory 0:25:14.760 --> 0:25:19.720 to recovery and deserve investments post COVID. And so that's 0:25:19.720 --> 0:25:23.200 really looking at our budget differently, and we've already talked 0:25:23.200 --> 0:25:25.280 about it on the police side. It means that when 0:25:25.320 --> 0:25:29.800 we make cuts, and we will, that we're making choices 0:25:30.400 --> 0:25:33.199