What Will I do as Mayor to Keep New York City Afloat Economically During the Current Economic Crisis? Empower small businesses in every borough by creating a City of New York Heritage Enterprise Fund (NYCHEF) that will be a part of a borough-wide commercial Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT.) The Fund is designed to encourage citizens to take charge of their own neighborhoods and help their neighbors to find a “NEW” pioneering sprit to reinvent themselves economically.
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Small business empowerment has been an issue bypassed by current and past administrations. Small businesses are the life’s blood of a city, especially in difficult economic times. Small businesses are inextricably linked to the success of the City of New York. The Rogers Administration will create innovative ways to ensure that communities remain vibrant and economically viable for neighborhoods and proprietors and will see to it that those areas that have remained depressed for decades have a chance for new life. Because of that partnership between the community and City Hall, the safety, health and consumer rights of residents, as well as those that come to work in the City of New York marketplace and its tourists from the world over, must be reassured.
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These accidents killed 19 construction workers in 2008, while others have been maimed and disabled, including pedestrians and residents. Such tragedies have increased at an alarming rate over the past 2 years. However, precedent for such benign neglect goes back nearly 30 years. Therefore, a thorough review and assessment of such preventable catastrophes is a promise Roland Rogers makes to the people of the City of New York.
Issues regarding gentrification and the rezoning of entire neighborhoods will be community decisions. No longer must residents and small business owners be bulldozed by big business. Far too often corporate development has not only displaced residents and business owners from their neighborhoods, but has left them displaced from having a voice as well. In a participatory Rogers Administration, that will not happen.
Unprecedented in recent times, these issues all simultaneously escalated in 2008, along with MTA railroad fares for commuters to the City of New York. Yet in 2008, subway services declined in on-time performance, in the provision of adequate subway security and in the provision of hygienically adequate subway cars. It will be a commitment of the Rogers Administration to closely scrutinize the performance and fiscal health of the MTA and its overall performance will not go unchecked.
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Health care services for the uninsured, the underinsured and single parent households must be examined to make health care system of the City of New York accessible for all. Preventative medicine must be encouraged and covered by insurance carriers in order for hospital emergency rooms to go back to the purpose for which they were originally intended—attending to emergencies. The staggering unabated escalation of medical and insurance costs in the City of New York must not cause the City to falter and become a city where available healthcare becomes a thing of the past reserved for but a few. The good health of a city begins with the health of its residents.
Crime statistics including homicides, gang violence, drug trafficking, rape, robbery and domestic battery have risen in recent years. However, these statistics will be moved from the back burner to the front burner in the Rogers Administration. Policing in cooperation with residents is the optimum way for law enforcement to be effective. It will not happen without both components working together, nor without a plan to see that such comes to fruition.
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The reliability standards of the transmission of electricity in the five boroughs of the City of New York has been especially suspect and the local utilities must deal with an aging infrastructure for which investment has remained dormant for decades. The unheeded deregulation of public utilities purchased by multi-national conglomerates remain unaccountable to the electric and gas consumers of the City of New York. Maintenance is inefficient and must be adhered to on a routine basis not after disasters have already overwhelmed communities.
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The Rogers Administration will emphasize literacy and mathematics programs in elementary and secondary schools and help to redirect priorities to ensure as educated a populace as possible. Working parents will be embraced and encouraged to play that ever important role in their child’s education.
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