Council Member Gale Brewer (6th District – Upper West Side) is holding an open house at the district office on Sunday and Monday.
Here are the details:
6TH COUNCIL DISTRICT SPRING OPEN HOUSE
Sunday, May 18, 4:00-7:00 PM
Monday, May 19, 5:00-8:00 PM
563 Columbus Ave. (at 87th St.)
I’m going to attend and I hope you will too. It’s remarkable that Council Member Brewer has been thinking seriously about bed bugs and what the city should do about them since 2005. That’s when she first introduced “The Bed Bug Bill” which sought to ban the sale of reconditioned mattresses in our city and form a task force to study the health impact of bed bugs.
We support her continued efforts to find ways to control the spread of bed bugs in our city. And we need you to support these efforts as well. Unless you and I and lots of people like us raise our voices in support and speak to our own council members and other representatives to educate them about our problems and the many practical things that can be done to achieve control of bed bugs in our city, we will continue to be where we are. Let’s certainly not wait until more people get bed bugs.
So, let’s go meet Council Member Brewer and her hard-working staff, to thank them and let them know we are committed to working with them to find solutions.
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I’m going also Renee. How will we know each other? Shall we wear red carnations?
Any news about what happened at Ms. Brewer’s Open House for those that attended?
I think the meetings were last night and tonight? Not sure, but looking forward to hearing how it was…
Oh, sorry. Thought they were Sat. and Sun. nites. Looking forward to reading what went on as well.
Regards to all!
Hi guys,
Gale Brewer and Rosalba Rodriguez (the district office director) are very, very nice. They think we’re doing good work and were very encouraging of our efforts. They are keeping track of the letters that are cc’d to them or that are received via the CitizenSpeak email service and they get inquiries from other council members who receive letters.
So, it was great to finally meet them and thank them for what they have done. It seems to me quite obvious that the HPD seminars that are being offered are the fruit of behind-the-scenes work by Gale Brewer.
I also note that there other council members now who also support these issues. But we of course need many more of them to understand what this is about. That’s why people need to contact their own representatives (at all levels) to put this issue on their radar.
My personal feeling is that we clearly have our work cut out for us. We are in an economic downturn and the Bloomberg administration has not shown itself interested in the bed bug issue. It will take more than a handful of letters, frankly. We need many, many New Yorkers to add their voices to this effort and let their representatives know that a coordinated approach is the only viable solution.
So, we’ll keep working. Waiting for someone else to do it is no longer an option.
On Sunday I met Gale Brewer and her wonderful staff. They were very, very welcoming and appreciative of our efforts and I told them that we certainly appreciated theirs. Rosalba told me they need MORE LETTERS!
Visit the “Take Action” section and click on CitizenSpeak to send yours and if you choose to write you own, please cc it to Rosalba at Rosalba.Rodriguez@council.nyc.ny.us. They do track the letters and they really do matter. One at a time, the letters will add up.
As Renee wrote, the Bloomberg administration has not been particularly receptive so far to our plight. The more active we are, the more letters we write, the harder for him to ignore us.
Let’s all be very squeaky wheels.