HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Summary of November 16 2016 Meeting

BALLOTS for our Tenant Association election - Jan. 18, 2017

We distributed ballots for the tenant association elections coming up on January 18, 2017. If you would like to run for the board or for the executive committee, please email Sue ( at  ) janak  dot  org.

POSSIBLE MAJOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT (MCI) increase coming after balcony repairs.  Stellar has sought permits to repair our balconies.  In other buildings, that has meant an MCI.  It won't be for a couple of years, we think, but we're gearing up to fight it.  So please contribute to our Legal Fund!  Contact your floor captain or our treasurer, Joan.

GENERAL ADVICE ON BUILDING ISSUES:

• If you have bedbugs and Stellar's exterminator is not coming, let the Executive Committee know.
• Don't let anyone take up broken floor tiles. They contain asbestos.  Ask Stellar to cover them with other flooring.

LARRY WOOD spoke.  Larry is Director of Organizing at Goddard Riverside. Goddard is a settlement house with some 20+ projects and programs, including the Senior Center at 598

Columbus Avenue and the arts center - and after-school program -  at 647 Columbus Avenue.  It has been around for 30 years and provides representation for tenants, social works, and more.  Larry has worked the gamut and has served in groups working toward building and preserving affordable housing funded by the federal, state, and city governments.  He has worked on the Right to Counsel campaign, the Real Rent Reform campaign, and more.  More than that, he has been a dedicated and sane voice int eh tenant activist community.   

The federal elections are changing the course of the government in Washington, but we also voted for state representatives.  As has been the case for the past few decades, the Democrats control the Assembly and the Republicans control the State Senate.  

How will the elections affect us? Nov. 16, 2016 - come to our General Tenants Meeting

National elections, State elections, and soon Tenant Association elections

Come to our 

GENERAL TENANTS MEETING

Wed., Nov. 16, 2016

in the Community Room at 8 PM.

We'll share thoughts, hear from an expert, and see how you can make a difference here.  Volunteer to run for our board or executive committee!

VOTE on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016: 040/69

Our polling place is P.S. 163, on the north side of 97th Street between Columbus and

Amsterdam Avenues.  

It is open from 6 AM to 9 PM on Tuesday, November 8th.

Our ED (Election District) is 040
Our Assembly District is 69

This election is very important for us as a society and as tenants.

To see who's on the ballot, click here.    

Please encourage your friends and family to vote.  If the State Senate should get a Democratic majority (not counting the "Independent Democratic Conference" who caucus with the Republicans), there is a better chance of serious progress on pro-tenant bills. 

If you WANT Trick or Treaters at your door, post some decoration!

If you would like children to come to your door on Halloween, please post some decoration on your door - such as this one (available in the mail room) 

Trick or Treat for the Tenant Association - Oct. 22nd

Trick or treat for the Tenants' Association  

Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 

Noon to 5 PM 

in the lobby

Been meaning to contribute?  

Come to the lobby table, leave a check, pick up some information and take some candy.

Funds, Unity, and Sweets!

Right to Counsel in Housing Court - and more

On Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, the New York City Council will consider a bill that could make New York City the first city in the nation to guarantee the right to legal counsel to tenants who are up to 200% of the poverty line and facing eviction in housing court - and in doing so, take a giant step to address the crisis of homelessness in our City.    Be part of history and join the Right to Counsel Campaign on 

Monday, September 26th, at 9:30am 

at New York City Hall Steps 

for a press conference 

in support of  intro 214-A

followed by 

City Council hearings 

on this historic piece of legislation

and sign the petition to Mayor de Blasio.