WEBVTT - Mayor Ras Baraka Interview 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.640 A real key for real celebrity real time joined the 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:10.640 Breakfast Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Ye, Showman the guy. 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:12.720 We are the Breakfast Club. We got some special guests 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:16.240 in the building with us this morning. Yes. JD Williams, actor, Yo, 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:20.840 what's up ros Bacca Morning morning. You know. So she 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.040 produced said you are the reason that she started dating 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.520 lights king thugs. Yeah, well that on the wire. No, 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.120 she told me that story. She said she thought I 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.640 was a thug at the time. She dated a blood 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.360 and she said she fixed She said she fixed them up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:39.159 She said she was watching me on oys when I 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.960 was younger. You know, I played a crazy character and 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:43.959 she says she was looking for a boyfriend. She found them. Dude, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.240 he ended up being a blood and then all types 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.440 of craziness. But she said she fixed them up. She 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.720 got to turn his life around everything. So see, something 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:54.760 good came out in jail after seeing you. Man, that's 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.600 what she did. Hey man, that wasn't me. That wasn't me, 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.160 but you know, you know, something positive came out of 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:02.760 it at the end. So that's that's good. She's working 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.400 with y'all. Now, you know what I'm sade it. She 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:10.959 was in jail. She's part of all charity outreach program 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.319 that we also have. The mayor of Newark, New Jersey. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.160 I haven't had the call him yet because I told 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:16.560 him I will call them if I had to, and 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.839 I haven't. At the point I've been already new good, good, 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:20.840 good good. Now what have we got going on? You 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.600 got a new program that we're doing now, yeah, let's 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.600 talk about This is from Youth one Stop. So we 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.720 have a Department of Labor workforce dollars that usually use 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.640 for training people to find jobs in the city of Newark. UM. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.360 So we have one that's called the one Stop for adults. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.480 Then we have a Youth one Stop for younger kids. 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.440 And uh we have JD and a few others Rod 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:46.560 Digger that are teaching classes to young people acting, music industry, photography, 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.080 teaching them the ins and outs of the business, which 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:50.640 I think is great. And there's a lot of young 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:52.720 people who are excited by the one to being a program. 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.160 We have to find a way to expand it because 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.080 there's so many people that are interested in being a 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:57.640 part of it. Then once they finished that, they're going 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.960 to some kind of vocational Uh, training after that, so 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.080 we're trying to get him on the right path and 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.440 not just jump into it and say I want to 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.000 be a rapper, I want to be an actor and 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:08.760 just out there. So they need to have some kind 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:10.480 of skills behind it. And these guys are doing a 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.200 great job and they're give them back to the city 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:13.840 and we love them for It's dope, man, because I 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.120 don't mind it the devil's playground, and these kids, especially 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.720 in New York, needs something else. You don't know, yo, 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:20.560 I mean, well, it was funny a little. I started. 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:22.160 As a matter of fact, I was on audition. I 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.919 ran into Charlemagne sometime last year and I was telling 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:26.600 him I was starting an acting class, but that was 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.560 geared at adults. And once the city got winned, I 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.320 was looking for someplace to hold it. You know, I'm 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:33.919 met up with some people. They talked to me. We 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.600 look hooked up with ros and Middy his brother, and 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:38.400 they were like, look, you know, we can get this 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.920 towards the kids because they kind of needed more. And 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.440 you know, right now, there's no extracurriculus. There's no where. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.680 Like he said, it's the Devil's playground. When I don't 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.720 have anything to do, you know, so we're like, yo, 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.400 let's give him something to do. Let's give him something 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.680 to focus on. And I'm glad, Like I said, first off, 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.080 let me say, I'm glad to be sitting here with 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.120 this man right here, the mayor a New Jersey, rosm Rocca. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.360 Ever since I was a kid, we always been waiting 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.720 for him to be the mayor. So yeah, so I'm glad. 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.120 I'm I mean through his father, you know, Amry b 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.639 Rocca up to him, like, I'm very proud that this 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.480 man has made it, you know, to the position that 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:10.880 he is in the city. I know he's gonna fight 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.640 for us. So just for us to be all, you know, 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.680 coming together and working together and getting this done, it's 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.720 like amazing, And I just want to make sure that 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.760 something you know, positive comes out comes out of it. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.359 I know we're gonna get a couple of more stars 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.639 out of it. You know, Nork were always generating somebody, 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.360 whether it's Tavi, Mike be Joy and myself, whatever, somebody 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:29.800 always coming out of there. You know. The one thing 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.880 about York. We joke about New York a lot about 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.080 it it being it's crime, but you cleaned up New 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.440 York a lot, you know, and how difficult was it 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.160 to clean up? It's getting in of work to do. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.440 But you know now, you know, I eating York. Now, 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.440 my kids played basketball in NewYork and the AAU team, 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.480 so I do a lot of parties in New York. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.480 Is cleaning It's way better than it was. Well, we're 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:53.800 doing we can, man, you know, we're trying to. Programs 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.240 like this help us out a lot. We put more 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.160 police on the street, but but more importantly, the things 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.560 that happened that that are not dealing with long enforcement 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.840 is what helps us move. Creating jobs for people, opportunities 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.640 for them to go to training, to meet people like 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.000 JD to talk to the young people, to give them 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.360 opportunities to do something different than just being the streets 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.040 all day. I mean, that's what we have to do. 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.560 The more programs that we have like this, targeting towards 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.400 high school kids, elementary school kids, out of school, kids 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.720 who dropped out, who need places to go to be 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.359 re engaged in society, all those programs help us to 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.680 reduce crime and make the environment better. You don't look 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.760 stressed down at all, man, I know, it's only you know, 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.640 it's stressful, but I'm not stressed up. And it's another 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:34.400 thing as far as people always stay he's trying to 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.200 stunt on Nook like it's a lot of money coming 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.200 through Nook right now corporate wise. Just all of that 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:40.960 is going on, and you know, I think, what was 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.800 it three summers ago was the sum of the Death? Yeah, yeah, 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.120 just three summers ago before he got an office, we 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:47.600 had what we called the Sum of the Death where 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.799 it was just crazy over there. I'm talking about every modify, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.680 handguns and all types of craziness. So just for us 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.440 to come from there to him, like you said, you 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.520 got it to the point where it's like tolerable where 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:58.920 you're like, yo, I could I could have my kids 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.039 go through it. I know how to manu through New York. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.120 Now my kids played through, but kids playing in New 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.520 York and it's and I feel comfortable at it. Yeah. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.640 So Weak the beautiful Community Center one of the best 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.000 I've ever seen in this area. I mean they have 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:15.480 everything from rock climbing, their basketball. Oh you must be 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.000 talking about Grafting. Yeah, that's that's where I'm from. Yeah, 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.240 that's where I'm from. That's where I'm from. But yeah, man, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:21.640 and it's like I said, we come in a long 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.039 way and it's slowly but surely it's picking up. But 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.880 it's definitely not like it was, you know, so that 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.839 that's got to get I think also the og you know, 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.720 gang gang members out there are realizing that wasn't the way, 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:35.760 and they're teaching the kids like yo, y'all can't be 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.760 out here just killing each other. Like they've got a 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.960 different mindset, some of them. But for the mayor, for 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:41.800 rasping Racket, didn't you sit down with some of the 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.680 gang members and set up a meeting. I remember reading 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.559 about that many times. But when I as the mayor, 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.440 we did it, and I think that's effective. And we 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.960 have a program called nvr R New York Violence Production 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.800 Initiative where we talk of the paroles and people uh 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:59.040 violent offenders, trying to get them social services and other programs, 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:00.839 but also talk to them about what's happening in the 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.400 community and where we're trying to go. Where we're take 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.640 in Newark, and you guys are like an obstacle to it. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.119 We can't do the development we need, We can't create 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.200 the opportunities and jobs for children, for your families. If 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.800 you're gonna continue to shoot the neighborhood up. Nobody wants 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.479 to come and be a part of the city. So 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.680 we have those kind of frank, open conversations that they 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.440 probably never even had in their life before, you know, 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.120 especially not with the mayor president saying listen, you know, 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.120 we're trying to build a community center here. You can't 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:25.840 be hanging out here shooting people like this. Can't. It's 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:27.560 not gonna work. Either gonna help us or you're gonna 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.400 go to jail, like one or the other. But you 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.000 have to be a part of this community, and we 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.479 want you to be a part of the community in 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.800 a positive way where the program offer any any other 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.960 alternatives other than just athletics and like entertainment. Oh yeah. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:44.000 We have a lot of workforce development programs in the 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.080 city for in the summertime. We're doing coding, the coding 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.480 program for young people within j I T. We're doing 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.560 urban design kind of a program for about eight hundred 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.440 kids that we're organizing now. So we're trying to increase 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.320 the summer youth employment this summer and get more kids 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.719 involved in these kind of training programs specifically targeted again 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.960 out of kids who more than likely may not finish 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.680 high school in a traditional way, trying to grab them 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.720 before they decide that they want to make crime a career, 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.720 because that's what a career criminal means. You're making crime 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.400 a career, that we have to give you another career 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.760 besides crime. And uh so we we're we're looking for money. 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.880 The financial institutions have been involved, the banks have been involved, 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.800 uh to other you know, nonprofits and all of the 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.680 philanthropic organizations have been involved. Trying to raise the revenue. 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.440 We need to put these kids to work in the 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.080 summertime and get them to kind of work for us 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.640 training that they need. Performing Arts school. Yeah, I went 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.880 to Arts High School. Yep, right there on Martin Luther 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.840 King Downtown Nook or you know, Like, like I said, 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.480 a lot of us came, but what made you decide 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.240 to go? Now? Actually like it, it was just a 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.240 blessing that I ended up there because I actually was 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.880 going to go to week Back then, we had science, 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.800 how we had university, how we had Arts High and 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:58.920 I was more into science, you know. I mean I 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.760 was always acting in schools that I was in, but 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.120 I figured that I wanted to be a science scientist. 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.720 So I tried to get into science and university. Things 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.640 was wrong with my application, like where I was living 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.920 and all types of craziness, and I ended up going 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:12.760 in the arts and it was like, you know, I 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.880 got accepted right away and then I got there and 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.720 I just ended up so involved in what it was 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:19.800 I was doing and being a drama major that everything 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.440 just kind of took off from this. So when you think, 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.120 because you know, you from New York, like when when 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:26.440 did it go up? Because I remember when I was young, 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.400 we used to go walk around downtown New York, you know, 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.080 coming from South Carolina, and the one somebody was like, no, 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:32.880 we can't go to New York no more. Yeah, um, 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.720 well it was I say it was after the ninety 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.920 eight was like remember ninety eight, that was pretty good 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:41.600 year for all of us. You know what I'm saying. 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.400 It kind of blew up. So I say somewhere around 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.960 two thousand, maybe you know, people started having I don't know, 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.679 less care or less respect about whatever was going on. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.520 But then there's that disparity between having a father figure 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.720 or role models or mentors, you know, male mentors. And 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.079 so once that, once that happened, where like we used 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.200 to listen to our old heads, you know what I'm saying. Like, 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.840 but once that that age group of kids came up 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.240 past ten to about twelve, and they wasn't listening to 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.680 us anymore, or we wasn't talking to him anymore. How 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.080 it went, That's when everything kind of went, you know, left. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.440 So I say, somewhere between two thousand two thousand and five, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.000 stuff started getting like kind of rough. But it's a cycle, 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.240 you know what I'm saying. You learn, you know, they learned, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.040 they grow up because now they're grown up and they 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:22.920 in a position where they got to try to force 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.440 the little heads to listen to them. So, you know, 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:27.600 you guys have had a lot of events there recently, 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:31.800 Black Girls Rock was there last week, Will Smith, Jada, 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.720 that's beautiful, Jill, everybody was out there this Yeah, it was. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.480 It was incredible too. Now, No, Newark also has a 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.200 lot of prim real estates right by the by the water. Now, 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.720 are you scared of losing that to to big investors 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.560 and people are not necessarily from the community, No, not 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.640 at all. I mean, first of all, Newark is not 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.600 like these other cities where it is really the population 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.080 is so condensed and heavy that you have to put 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.840 people out in order for other people to come in. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.360 So we can stand another one hundred two hundred thousand 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.800 residents in the comfortably uh you know, New York. At 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.880 one point, I had almost a half a million people 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.320 in it, you know, right now, and we're about three 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.600 hundred thousand. So we have opportunity for more business, more investment. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.640 We're trying to bring more manufacturers, big box industries to 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.280 the city of New York. We are a prim location 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.840 for manufacturing. You know, we have the third largest seaport 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.920 in the nation. There mostly all the goods and services 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:23.800 that come through this trosted area come through the New 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.400 York Seaport. We have an international airport. The transportation in 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.079 the city is you know, next to none. So the 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.680 kind of manufacturing we're trying to uh, you know, create 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.800 in the city is where is the type that has 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.520 the trucking, that puts out people to work, that uses 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.880 the seaport, uses the transportation, uses the airport, and we 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.560 want them to come. So and they are coming almost 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.640 twenty dollars pew, they got shot. Well, you know, people 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.520 start leaving, you know, people people leave the city. You know, 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.839 there was a trend where people began leaving cities right 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.880 so after the New York Rebellion in sixty seven, and 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.760 many people started moving to the suburbs. Now there's trending 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.920 in the the way all over the country. Everybody wants 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:03.800 to live in a city. The millennials, they want to 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.160 have conveniance. They want to live next to the train station, 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:07.760 they want to walk, you know, they want to have 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.720 all of the amenities around their house where they don't 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.240 have to get public catch the train all the time, 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.800 or drive, you know. So they're coming back to these cities. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.120 And so New York is a part of that. And 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.120 New York is expensive, for Bogan is expensive. These city 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.199 is expensive. So people are looking for opportunities to have 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.719 decent housing in safe environments where the amenities are right there. 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.640 I'm looking at I'm looking at downtown Nook crazy because, 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.559 like I mean, I've seen it change a whole bunch 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.640 of different ways. But what it's turning into right now, 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:37.959 as far as it's having a Prudential Center down there 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.120 and and Jay Pack down there, and then all these 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.240 people will be coming through for these hockey games, and 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.040 I mean they don't just go there for the game, 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:48.319 maybe walking around downtown and I'm like, wow, Like, yeah, 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.440 they don't know, but but that's good for us, you know, 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.280 because we get to see them, they get to see us, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.760 you know. And they're fixing up downtown. We got all 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.559 of the a new type of strip mall coming up downtown. 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:04.360 And yeah, Whole Foods is coming in. But that's nice. 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.640 We have three more hotels coming downtown. Yep, yep, yep, 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.439 it is. It's about to happen. That's what the programs do. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.640 You all encourage industries like all these new like hotels 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.280 and stuff that are you know, coming up. You' all 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.720 encouraging them. The higher kids that absolutely absolutely. Endigo hire 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.640 ninety percent of new workers. Wow. And what happened was 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.760 when we found out the hotel was coming, they partnered 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.240 with the city to create a hospitality program, hotel motor 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.520 management program that we did in the city and we 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.800 trained the residents so they'll be able to get those jobs. 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.840 And so the beautiful thing about it is we did 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.760 that just for the Endigo, not knowing that three other 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:38.400 hotels will come in. And so we've been working and 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.640 working and working, and so now we have three other hotels, 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.959 So that program is going to live past the hotel Indigo, 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.240 so we get more people through the program and higher 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.400 the other hotels that are coming to the city. Do 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.319 you give owners breaks for hiring Newark residents, because that 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.000 would be something now I'm sure a lot of people 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.840 are coming. I opened up a business, you know, hire 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:58.080 Newark residence, a discounting taxes or discounting in or discounting 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.959 that is that possible? Well, right as possible. But right 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.480 now when people get when you get a tax abatement 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.520 or subsidies from the city, there's requirements. So most developers 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.080 don't most of them don't use all of their money 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:09.520 or none of their money at all as a matter 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.240 of fact, and they get a lot of state and 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.679 city subsidies when that happens, or they get a tax 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.520 abatement from us, which means they don't pay full taxes. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.120 They pay a pilot or a payment in leewer taxes. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.520 And if they if we grant them that, then in 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.720 turn they have to hire a certain percentage of new 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.400 Rakers and that's usually like forty percent. But what we're 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.000 doing now is we're working above that forty percent, telling 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.520 folks that the jobs that you want, let us know 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.480 in advance, and you will use our work for US 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.560 dollars and training people so they will have those jobs 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.640 and become available. Yes, what about people who want to 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.880 get into nursing in medical field, we have a robust 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:44.000 allied health work training program that we do with Essas 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.840 County College right now and with Rutgers University. As a 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.200 matter of fact, in a couple of days, we're going 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.960 to do a press conference with beth Israel Essas County 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:56.000 College in the city. We're doing a pharmacology program where 0:13:56.040 --> 0:14:00.000 you could go and take courses at Essas County College 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.720 or I worked Force training place and get a job 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.679 right in bethis Hospital at the end of it. So 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:07.880 all of our training programs have jobs at the end. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:09.559 That's because there's a lot of people in Nowork who 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:16.880 know how to treat bullet wounds. Yet universal go yeah, no, 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.599 he gotta keep it breakfast club, because I'm looking like 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.800 this ain't the breakfast club right now. I can't even 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.600 listen to y'all in the morning. I'm taking my daughter 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.040 to school. Y'all talking about oral sex and seven thirty 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.120 in the morning, I'm like click, oh, baby, don't worrybody, 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:33.040 of course, but I'm talking about it. What's next, what's 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.800 next that could benefit the city. And now that y'all 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.920 doing other than the programs, well, uh, well my program 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.960 when we're doing with the acting, we also off a 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.200 photography like set building, um, and a whole bunch of 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:45.600 a host of other things. Like I said that we're 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:47.160 all trying to put under one hub and that's just 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.080 based on that thing. Uh. He just did his State 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.200 of the City address last week. It was crazy, Like 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.960 I mean, I felt the energy. He had me yelling 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:57.400 at the end of it, you know what I'm saying. 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.400 And right now he he rebranded Nook and instead of 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.640 brick City, we're going towards nor three point zero now. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.120 So I'm trying to get that wrapped around my head 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:06.680 right now. So y'all gonna start seeing a lot of 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.240 Nork three point Oh. But you know, I know he 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.480 can tell you point oh. Well, it's it's what we 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.920 talked about. The millennials, the the young youngsters that out 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.600 here that use the iPad, the internet, that that want amenities, 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.680 that want space, and you know, we're creating an opportunity 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.080 using the infrastructure that we have under the ground the 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.400 fiber optic cables to create Wi Fi in the city, 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.720 free Wi Fi in public places. It's taking the city 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.560 to the to the next level, right, So creating more 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.080 jobs for people using the manufacturing that we talked about, 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:41.080 building quality housing to turn Newark into a place, uh 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:42.720 that you would want to live at, you know, a 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.080 destination city that people want to come to, uh and 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:47.920 keeping the same people in it at the same time, 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.480 so not throwing people out, training them to be a 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.600 part of a new Newark, a newer three point zero. 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:54.640 Like you know, you get a new video video games, 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.000 it's the new video game. It's better than the old ones. 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:58.880 So the whole concept of newer three point oh is 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:03.080 this is Newark at the next level, in the next century, bigger, better, brighter, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.280 batter You think it's a negative connotation with the brick 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.880 city term, I do. I mean, well, I think it's 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.960 outlived as usefulness. Really, you know, at the end, when 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.680 I was a kid, I was brick city all the way. 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.720 You know, you know, it made you feel rugged, tough, 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.960 you know, I'm from NewYork. That's what's up. And it's 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.160 really more about because we had so many projects in 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.000 the city more per capita than any city in America, 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:25.360 you know, as a matter of fact. That's why we 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.160 were the brick city, and everybody felt gritty and grimy 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.400 about that. So we're not that anymore. We moved on. 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.600 A lot of those projects are torn down. We moved 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:37.840 into the next, next generation, next opportunities. Well not really. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.680 So we're trying to advance the city without getting rid 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.120 of the people. What I said, we don't want to 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:43.720 get rid of new Ark because we love the people, 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.200 their families. We like JD and Rod Digger and all 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.400 those folks. They from Newark, you know, Mike Jordan, they 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.520 went to the same high school. New York has a 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.480 lot of great people. You know, we don't highlight them, 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.200 and we're trying to highlight them now so the kids 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.480 can see we got great people that came from lived 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.480 on your same block, living in Rafton the Avenue. Now 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.640 and they start it's doing all kinds of things. You well, 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:08.040 but yeah, but she heard her. You know yet Irvington, 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.800 all of those East Irvington and Nook, they all we 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.639 all consider that one s you know pretty much. So 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.199 now besides being man, is there a bigger run that 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.480 you after you finish your New York duties that you 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:26.200 might be jumping into. Nah, man, I'm home, Man, I'm home. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.080 I feel good and in the seat driving a bus 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.280 in New York, you know it. It feels good for me. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.280