Hi, I’m Connie Murray. I’m a 22-year LIC resident, native-born New Yorker.

I am thrilled that people are up here asking for the Board to have a resolution for public land for public use: I want to toss my name in that as well. And I also wanted to follow up on a couple of things that happened at last month’s meeting.

Some Board members had expressed interest in finding out more about ULURP [Uniform Land Use Review Procedure]. I’ve been going to ULURP meetings; I would love to be able to share information with you guys so I’ll follow up with an email to you. [editor’s update: and I did that, babies!]

And then after the YourLIC people spoke and left, before, a lot of them left before the community got up to speak afterwards, there was something said at the end, that the EDC (New York City Economic Development Corporation) has all the power, I think Lisa [Ann Deller] you said that, so I just want to point out to all of us the EDC, which is the Economic Development Corporation, is a public benefit corporation but it reports into the Mayor’s office so who pays for something that reports into the Mayor’s office?

Who pays for that?

We do.

Tax money pays for the EDC so let’s keep that under consideration when we think about the power that the EDC has because all you have to do is point to the EDC and ask what it’s doing and that can affect a change.

That happened with Amazon so keeping the EDC accountable reduces its power.

The EDC wants us all to roll on our back and say “ok, whatever you want to do” and I’m not going to do that and hopefully you don’t have to do that either because we do have the power.

We pay for it.

And maybe the EDC needs to not report into the Mayor’s office, maybe it needs to be its own entity as opposed to a government agency.

Thank you.