“I said this when I was running my campaign that I would try to file an order around forming a police commission or at least starting the conversation just because of  another piece of oversight I guess overall for the police department and also to spread the responsibilities out from just the mayor not just having the mayor and the chief being responsible for everything but having a commission that can work in collaboration with the mayor and the chief and the council to be sure that services are working where they’re supposed to be,” said City Councilor Israel Riuver, also chair of the Public Safety Committee. “I think that a commission of three to five different people would allow the room and the space to be able to do that to be able to together create and devise a strategic plan on how best to approach some of these issues that were addressed in the audit.”

At the City Council meeting of April 18, the public comment included views by city residents on excessive force used by the police.

Also, a tenants rights advocate noted there have been more than 15 code violations her city building ” by the slumlord I mean property owner Alex He.”  Also speaking up against the property owner was another resident of 446 Maple St..

“He has multiple code violations I read them today it was like six pages worth of code violations. He’s a bad actor. These are not mistakes of a novice landlord which he told me he was when I met him last summer,” the resident said. “These are egregious and frankly criminal violations.”

Another resident brought to the council’s attention again matter that needs addressing, he said.

“I’ve spoken about this issue multiple times in the last two-three years that I’ve been attending these City Council meetings and it’s the development of our cities without tenant protections this keeps happening over and over and over and over and over again. It’s really important to look for look out for our most marginalized peoples those are poor.”

Carmen Ocasio spoke about the creative work she and her daughter have been doing to the electrical box at Appleton St. dedicated the to city’s police officers.

“They just had graffiti all over it,” she said. “Whoever is doing I, stop doing it.”

City Councilor Juan Anderson-Burgos commented on the “checklist” for the city’s schools to be released from Bpston-controlled receivership.

“Best actions to take to get our receivership [out], ” said the city councilor, “is not a checklist –n it’s a strategic plan that involves the goals and priorities that were identified in the plan. The plan should have been sent to all the city councilors earlier last week.”