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.

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.

Regards to all!