DANIEL DROMM, Democrat for City Council

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From Times Newsweekly: By Sam Goldman

The area’s newest lawmaker came to the Monday, Mar. 1 Communities of Maspeth and Elmhurst Together (COMET) meeting at Bethzatha Church of God in Elmhurst to talk about his work so far and his future plans.

City Council Member Daniel Dromm told the crowd that his Jackson Heights office is “off to a good start,” with 30 of 48 constituent cases solved at the time of the meeting.

Among the issues solved are tree plantings, pothole filling and social service requests.

Dromm also told the crowd that he wants to add seats to School District 24, adding that he hopes to persuade the Department of Education to lease the Blessed Sacrament School building in Jackson Heights.

The topic shifted to health care, with Dromm telling residents that Elmhurst Hospital Center is straining to accommodate the increase in clients stemming from the loss of nearby St. John’s Queens Hospital.

As a mitigation measure, he wants to add more primary care facilities to the area, to prevent residents from “using Elmhurst (Hospital) as a doc- tor’s office,” leaving the staff to tackle more urgent cases.

Finally, he shifted to quality-oflife issues. “We have a lot of plans,” said Dromm. “I believe in the broken windows theory.”

One plan involves getting the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to lease some of the commercial spaces at the 74th Street/Roosevelt Avenue transit hub, which Dromm claims is quickly becoming dilapidated inside.

He then took questions from the crowd, including one from Ellen Kang on how he plans to help small businesses in the area.

Dromm pledged to “cut that red tape” and reduce the amount of paperwork necessary so small businesses get up and running faster.

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From Queens Courier: By Luisa Garcia

Years of dreams and hard work went up in smoke for the owners and employees after an accidental fire destroyed several Jackson Heights businesses the day before Valentine’s Day.

Nevertheless, with the help of friends and customers by their sides, many owners have already taken the first steps towards restoring their businesses.

Maria Laura Ines Solano, co-owner of Lalita’s gift shop, feels the urge to continue and finish what she started.

“I have a moral obligation to my clients,” she said. “This week I have been taking calls and working on baby shower decorations and sales paid before the fire took place.”

Solano came to the United Sates in 1994 with the hope of making money to help her three sons, who she left in Peru. The blaze that started in a nearby furniture store on Saturday, February 13, has forced her to start over again.

“I arrived in Florida [in the 1980s] and began working very hard; I was a babysitter for three years and moved on to taking care of an elderly woman,” said Solano. “After her death I was determined to continue moving on. I began working as a house keeper, doing alterations for clothing and then party decorations.”

In 2007, Solano’s younger sister persuaded her to open their own business in the city. After finding the location at 84-05 37th Avenue, an enthusiastic Solano moved from Florida to New York and became the third generation of women in her family to open a business. She began selling toddler clothing and imported items her sister sent from Peru.

Now that her store has burned down, she fights off tears of confusion as she sees herself and her employees left with nothing.

“I am very thankful to the people who have called me and kept me in their prayers,” she said, thanking in particular Councilmember Daniel Dromm, who put her in touch with someone at the NYC Department of Small Business Services. “They have kept me going and filled me with warm feelings that have me looking ahead to what is to come.”

The fire, which took all of the material items Solano kept for her business, has only motivated her to sell more and become more prosperous. She continues to hold on to her entrepreneurial spirit and hopes to find an affordable new space to rent and continue on with her gift shop, selling children’s clothing, floral decorations and party supplies.

“I am safe and the fire did not harm any of my employees or neighbors,” Solano said. “I am still healthy and I will continue on fighting to bring back my own shop once again.”

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by Steve Mosco

In an effort to connect with small businesses in the area, newly-elected Queens City Councilmembers recently met with members of the Queens Chamber of Commerce at the organization’s Jackson Heights headquarters.

Councilmember Danny Dromm, representing District 25, said he looks forward to working very closely with the Chamber in the near future. The newly elected Dromm, a former city teacher, was excited to introduce himself to the business community.

“I believe very much in small businesses and I know large businesses also need our support because they are major employers,” said Dromm. “What happens in the business community affects the rest of the community.”

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Jackson Heights business owners say coin-fed parking meters limit turnover in shoppers
by Clare Trapasso

Welcome to No Park Heights - aka Jackson Heights. Residents and shoppers compete daily for scant street parking while dodging ticket agents in one of the city's most ethnically diverse neighborhoods. The crunch is worst in the 70s, between 35th and Roosevelt Aves., local leaders said, where densely packed rows of South Asian shops compete for customers. But they - like officials in other areas that Queens News has spoken to for its "Queens Parking Crunch" series - had some ideas that could help alleviate the mess. The city Department of Transportation will hold an open house to address parking and transit concerns at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 27 at Public School 69, 77-02 37th Ave. City Councilman Daniel Dromm would like to see many of the coin-fed parking meters along the busiest streets replaced by muni-meters.

"If you took out all of these meters, you might be able to get two or three cars per block extra," said the newly elected Jackson Heights Democrat. Dromm also proposed turning many of the two-hour spaces along a main shopping drag - 37th Ave. - into one-hour spots. "Cars come and they stay all day," he said of the congested streets. "What we need to do is keep them moving."

He has even asked the city to remove the parking spot his predecessor, Helen Sears, reserved for herself in front of the district office he now occupies. The Transportation Department is processing Dromm's request to remove that spot, officials said. The agency is also looking into installing muni-meters.

But Dromm's long-term goal is to create parking permits for locals. This could dissuade commuters from parking in Jackson Heights all day while they take public transit into Manhattan.

That could cut down on the roughly 30 minutes it takes Jackson Heights resident Teemoia Marino, 35, to find a parking spot.
"It's like you win the Lotto if you find the parking," he said. The dearth of parking isn't just driving motorists nuts - it's hurting businesses, too.

"If you can't park, you can't do the shopping," said Fatema Shakoor, 46, whose sister owns the South Asian clothing shop Aanggan on 74th St. "They can't take their time [or] they get a ticket."

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by Anna Gustafson
A four-alarm fire ravaged an entire block in Jackson Heights Saturday, destroying eight businesses and forcing the evacuation of about 100 residents, fire officials said.

Nearly 170 firefighters worked for 3 1/2 hours to extinguish the blaze that began at 9:53 a.m. Saturday morning in the Acme Furniture store at 84-09 37th Ave., officials said. Four firefighters sustained injuries and were treated at area hospitals, officials said. No civilians were hurt in the blaze, an FDNY spokesman said.

The fire, which sent plumes of smoke into the sky that could be seen from miles away, was under control by 1:30 p.m., according to an FDNY official.

City Councilman Daniel Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) said his office met with owners of the affected businesses Saturday and said the city Department of Small Business Services has arranged to give those affected by the fire “immediate assistance.”

Dromm also met with evacuated residents, many of whom have been able to return to their homes, to help secure “medical assistance for those in need, including seniors and the disabled, and make special arrangements for pets.”

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From Western Queens Gazette: by Thomas Cogan

Community Board 3’s first meeting of 2010 at the board’s usual meeting place, I.S. 227, the Louis Armstrong School in Corona, three politicians introduced themselves and talked. A spokesman for a local ambulance service sought letters of approval for a plan that would expand its territory. There was a new election of board officers. Near the end of the meeting, there was word of a proposal to build an elementary school, while the MTA proposal to eliminate free transit fare for students was not appreciated.

City Councilmember Daniel Dromm was the first politician to the front of the room. New to political office, he first defeated incumbent Helen Sears in a primary race for nomination to the City Council’s 25th district seat then won the November election, where, he acknowledged, his share of the vote was 75 percent. Just after being inaugurated, he was named head of the council Immigration Committee.

Dromm has a 25-year background teaching in city schools and spoke first of educational matters. He noted that the local problem of overcrowded classrooms would be allayed considerably if an arrangement could be effected for public school students to fill 700 seats at the now closed Blessed Sacrament elementary school at 34-20 94th St. “It would be like getting a new school,” he said. He praised the Renaissance Charter School, a K-12 school that has operated at 35-59 81st St. for nearly a decade. Turning to another critical area, he deplored the healthcare situation since the recent closing of three Queens hospitals, saying the closings have had a particularly severe impact on Elmhurst Medical Center, where people in need of treatment often must wait nine or 10 hours just to be admitted. He said that several primary care centers are needed locally, and added that he and Congressmember Joseph Crowley have been trying to gain funds from the federal stimulus package, which might be used toward getting some of those centers.

He said that day laborers, widely seen as a great problem in the vicinity of Roosevelt Avenue, should instead be seen as those “least amongst us” that he learned about in his Catholic youth. Allowing that they have caused some problems, he said that they need community centers to address their situation of being unattached to just about anything. He praised the closing from time to time of 78th Street to make it a play street for children, hailing Board 3 Member Ed Westley for his part in bringing it about. Considering the number of local restaurants, he said that Jackson Heights should stage something like Atlantic Antic in Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue neighborhoods. He concluded by saying: “The strength of our community is the diversity of our community.”

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City Council Member Daniel Dromm joined union and community members will pledge not to patronize Amish Market Tribeca until the owners demonstrate a reversal of their stand against workers rights. Dromm was joined by the leadership of UFCW Local 1500, the Building and Construction Trades Council of New York, the New York Central Labor Council, and New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

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From NYPost: by Jeremy Walsh

The same day last week that the MTA approved a doomsday budget that eliminated two subway lines in Queens, elected officials in Jackson Heights called the agency’s attention to a potential lost funding source: the 74th Street-Roosevelt Avenue transit hub.

“It is absolutely shameful that the MTA is considering throwing students under the bus before pursuing revenue from these valuable properties,” City Councilman-elect Daniel Dromm said of the new budget, which includes charging students for trips to and from school. “The MTA must focus on all revenue opportunities before they talk about any service cuts or massive fare increases for students.”

State Assemblyman Jose Peralta (D-Jackson Heights) said the Metropolitan Transportation Authority “needs to look deep into their reserve fund and find appropriate sources of funding.”

Assemblyman Michael DenDekker (D-Jackson Heights) also urged alternate methods of increasing revenue.

“Before the MTA starts to implement any service cuts at all, it should check all available financial resources, such as the leasing of MTA property and all other revenue sources they have,” he said.

The $132 million 74th Street station project took five years to finish, Dromm’s office said. It boasts 14 commercial spaces that could be rented out to tenants.

At the time, elected officials said the MTA Real Estate Committee had received a stunning number of applications for the storefronts. But when the new facility opened in November 2006, merchants complained that the MTA charged much higher rents than other landlords in the neighborhood.

MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said 11 of the commercial spaces at the station are either currently occupied or licensed and awaiting the tenant to move in.

The largest of the spaces, a 4,000-square-foot storefront on the street level, is empty right now because the vendor is having problems with his architect, Ortiz said.

“What we said was, ‘As a sign of good faith ... would you increase the amount that you give the MTA up front as a security deposit?’ And he did that,” Ortiz said. “He’s assured us he’s coming.”

Dromm’s office pointed out another transit hub, the Fulton Street station in Manhattan, was recently renovated with 20,000 square feet of commercial space that goes for $150 a square foot annually.

The 74th Street station was the 14th-busiest of all the MTA’s subway stations in 2008, serving 16.4 million passengers that year.

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From New York Daily News by Clare Trapasso:

They wait on the city's streetcorners, often shivering in the cold, hoping someone will drive by and offer them a job. Soon, they will be able to come indoors.

Beginning next month, day laborers will be eligible for job training and social service programs in three Queens neighborhoods under a new $1.2 million initiative paid for with federal stimulus dollars.

But advocates say they won't be satisfied with anything less than full-fledged immigration centers.

Councilman-elect Daniel Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) said he plans to advocate for permanent centers during his term.

"We need to address the problems that day laborers face holistically, rather than piecemeal," Dromm said.

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From Village Voice: by Candice M. Giove
As shoppers scurried to snatch up last minute gifts inside the Queens Center Mall, local elected officials and community organizations painted the shopping destination's landlord, Macerich, as the latest Grinch in the ongoing fight for living wages -- just days after the city council rejected a Kingsbridge Armory plan that had no living wage requirement.

Most of the 3,100 retail workers in the sprawling urban mall earn $7.25 an hour.

Standing on a snowy corner of Queens Boulevard, Santa symbolically held gift-wrapped boxes marked "living wages." A menacing green Dr. Seuss character represented the mall owner. Activists from Make the Road New York, a citywide organization focusing on economic justice, demanded that the landlord place a living wage clause in its leases -- which would require stores to pay $10/hour with benefits, or $11.50 without.

The mall, which lures over 26 million consumers a year and is considered one of the most profitable malls in the country, has already completed a $275 million makeover, adding thousands of square feet of shopping space and parking to the already busy site.

Like many major commercial property owners in New York, Macerich saved $48 million in taxes through the Industrial and Commercial Abatement Program between 2004 and 2009. Make the Road New York predicted that by 2018 those abatements will total $129 million.

Even after years on the job, most mall employees barely climb the earnings ladder, the report said. Their examples include Juan Cucalon, a 28-year-old, $8.25-an-hour cashier at Victoria's Secret who struggles to pay a $400 rent with monthly earnings of $600, and Saa'datu Sani, whose earnings rose to $8.47 an hour at J.C. Penney after eight years.

The group and the officials plan to continue their campaign against Macerich with street demonstrations and letters. "Just like the story of Scrooge, where the ghost visited him on many occasions," said Councilman-elect Daniel Dromm, "we're going to come back, and we're going to visit this mall on many occasions until we get what the community needs."

Dromm, whose predecessor, outgoing City Councilwoman Helen Sears, was the lone supportive vote for the Kingsbridge Armory plan, said that he would pay special attention to ensuring that developers kept their promises.

Activists were also angry over what they portrayed as unrealized guarantees for a community space at the mall. "They're unwilling at this point to open that space up to desperately needed community programs like English as a second language or an afterschool program," Friedman said.

Their report claims that local teens become mall rats, vacuously hanging out in the food court, while a tourism office stands as the only community-oriented space in the mall.

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Creating a Business Improvement District for 73rd & 74th Street

The merchants and businesses on 73rd and 74th Streets in Jackson Heights have created a commercially viable area. However, the current City Council Member has not effectively dealt with the quality of life challenges this has made for the larger community. As your city council representative, Daniel Dromm will work with local small business owners to create a formal organization made up of property owners and commercial tenants which is dedicated to promoting business development and improving the area’s quality of life. This Business Improvement District will deliver supplemental services such as increased sanitation and maintenance, public safety and visitor services, marketing and promotional programs, capital improvements, and beautification for the area. The time is now for the commercial property owners to take responsibility for these streets and work with the community. We need new leadership to bring the community together to meet the challenges we face. Daniel Dromm is ready to work on improving our community.

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Daniel Dromm pauses while speaking in Spanish to the Queens Vantage Tenants' Council to allow a translator (right) to translate his words into English.

On December 3, 2008, Queens Vantage Tenants' Council (QVTC) held a rally at St. Joan of Arc Roman Catholic Church in Jackson Heights which was attended by over 250 people. Dromm spoke out against the abuses of Vantage Properties (and its chief financial backer, Apollo Real Estate Advisors) which owns numerous buildings in the 25th Council District.

Many tenants accuse Vantage of using many under-handed and possibly illegal tactics to force tenants from their homes including taking many tenants to court for no reason, harassing tenants who cannot produce a valid lease and trying to evict those tenants even though they have lived in their apartment for many years.

Vantage has been alleged to remove superintendents from a number of its buildings and telling tenants to call a service number when they have concerns or need repairs. Vantage has also been reported to return rent checks from tenants because of minor technicalities and thereby triggering eviction proceedings.

At the rally, Dromm spoke in Spanish and said, "I fully understand what you are going through having myself been a victim of an abusive landlord. Vantage needs to understand that although these are just investments to them; to us, they are our homes." Dromm served on the executive board of the tenants association of the rent-stabilized building where he used to live (70-35 Broadway) in Jackson Heights during the 1980's. Dromm has been fighting for tenants issues for over 25 years.

Dromm signed the QVTC's pledge promising "to stick by you through this battle. The only way Vantage can win is if we don't remain united in our efforts to secure justice. We must stay united."

Dromm supports the Council's demands that Vantage stop harassing tenants, that an independent monitor review all of Vantage's cases before Vantage takes them to court and that Apollo write a letter to all its tenants in all its buildings explaining who they are and that they will address the concerns of the QVTC.

In conclusion, Dromm thanked the Council and one of the main organizers of the event, Robert McCreanor, Director of Legal Services for the Immigrant Tenant Advocacy Project of the Catholic Migration Office of the Diocese of Brooklyn.

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Daniel Dromm joined 32BJ Union President Mike Fishman and the leadership of SEIU Local 32BJ for a candidate reception to kick-off the union's 2009 political and policy agenda for New York City. The event gave candidates running for Mayor, Comptroller, Public Advocate, Borough President, and Council the opportunity to hear about 32BJ's policy priorities for the next four years and beyond.

32BJ represents tens of thousands of building service workers in New York City; our commitment to improving the lives of all of New York's working families is the foundation of the union's 2009 platform. 32BJ looks forward to engaging candidates on the issues that impact low-wage workers - good jobs that pay family-sustaining wages, healthcare, affordable housing, and responsible government. This reception was the first in a series of events to discuss the issues with candidates and engage leaders in a discussion on how to best address the issues that matter to New York's working poor.

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Less than one year from now, you will go into the voting booth and you will select who will represent you in the New York City Council. You're going to have to ask yourself when you vote in the primary in September and in the election in November, "Who will lead us toward a better tomorrow?"

We are at a crossroads in the history of New York City. Our economy is in danger. Our schools are not adequately educating our children. Our streets are dirtier, louder and more dangerous. And our political process is being taken over by corporate interests and self-serving career politicians.

I am running for City Council to make New York City a better place to live. I am running to build a better future for the children and families of Jackson Heights, Rego Park, LeFrak City, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst, Woodside and Corona.

As a public school teacher for the past twenty-four years, I know first-hand what is working in our education system and I know all too well what desperately needs fixing. As a community activist, I have been at the forefront of making sure that everyone has equal rights and a strong voice in our society. As a district leader, I work with elected officials, businesses, civic groups, and non-profit organizations to make our neighborhoods livable.

A vote for Daniel Dromm is a vote to bring the community together.

A vote for Daniel Dromm is for vote for better schools, cleaner and quieter streets, and safer neighborhoods.

Join me in making tomorrow better than today.

Sincerely, Daniel Dromm

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From Queens Chronicle:
Across the borough, Con Edison customers like Laura Cadorette are cutting back on electricity, buying energy efficient light bulbs and suffering through hot summer days without the air conditioner, all because of an expected 22 percent Con Ed rate increase over last summer’s rates. Only in Cadorette’s case, all that conserving didn’t translate into a lower, or even a modest increase in her electric bill. Like millions of New Yorkers, the Jackson Heights resident recently got a shocker in the mail — a $190.80 Con Ed bill for her 1,000-square-foot apartment, outfitted with $100 worth of new energy saving bulbs and with her 15,000 BTU air conditioner left silent, a relic of better times.

At a rally in Jackson Heights last week, Daniel Dromm and lawmakers joined area residents to rail against Con Ed, a utility with few friends among city ratepayers and co-op managers like Debbie DaGiau at section three of Southridge Co-op in Jackson Heights.

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From Queens Ledger:
"How much is too much? That is the question being asked by community leaders regarding another increase in electricity costs that will be wreaking havoc on the finances of everyone who lives and works in New York City.

To combat the rate hikes, Daniel Dromm, Democratic district leader, and a number of elected officials have created several initiatives that will hopefully get utility prices down, including a postcard mailer and re-regulation of Consolidated Edison.

“I wanted to use the occasion to call attention to Con Ed’s fleecing of the public,” Dromm said. “Con Ed places shareholder profits over customer concerns and customer well-being.”

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From NY Daily News:
With New Yorkers already feeling the pinch from historically high gas prices, locals are now focusing their ire on Con Edison.

"This summer, Con Ed increased its rates for residential customers by 22% and for its commercial customers by 25% for its supply of electric power. This comes on the heels of a 6% increase for the delivery of electric power in April," said Daniel Dromm, a Democratic district leader in Jackson Heights.

"Now we are turning our disgust into action," said Dromm, who organized the rally to announce a campaign to send protest postcards to Con Ed chief Kevin Burke.

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From El Diario:
A comienzos de verano, Con Edison anunció que las tarifas aumentarían un 22% entre los meses de mayo y septiembre del 2008. La compañía ha explicado que adquiere electricidad a través de diversas compañías reguladas por el gobierno estatal a precio del mercado, el cual ha subido a la par que el petróleo y el gas natural. También ha advertido que las facturas son más altas porque la gente consume más electricidad en verano.

Sin embargo para Danny Dromm, líder del Distrito 39 de la Asamblea Estatal, de Queens, son frecuentes las quejas de los residentes y dueños de negocios.

Dromm dijo que la comunidad “va a luchar en contra de los aumentos de tarifa”, y pidió a los residentes que firmen una tarjeta que se está distribuyendo en la comunidad, llamada “Aquí tenemos algunas brillantes ideas”, mediante la cual se demanda que Con Edison deje de lado los recientes incrementos de tarifa.

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From NY1:
Laura Cadorette of Jackson Heights removed her air conditioner this summer, bought dozens of energy efficient lightbulbs and does everything she can to conserve energy. Yet she says her Con Edison utilities bill still keeps going up.

“I was outraged by the fact that I had spent a lot of money and a lot of time trying to decrease my electric bill, and it seems like no matter what you do, your electric bill goes up,” said Cadorette.

Con Ed’s supply costs are going up this month, meaning consumers will see an increase of 20 percent in their bills, following a rate increase in April.

So Cadorette joined a protest in Jackson Heights lead by Daniel Dromm calling on Con Ed to stop raising prices and start improving service.

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Community activist Daniel Dromm leads a rally of Queens residents and business owners in protest of Con Edison rate hikes.

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Con Edison has jacked up its electric rates 22% for residential customers and 25% for its commercial customers this summer; that's right after getting a 6% increase in April. Soon, Con Ed will be back asking for more money. Enough is enough!

Con Ed has failed to provide reliable service in an affordable way. In 2006, thousands of Queens residents lost power for 9 days in the middle of a dangerous heat wave. Con Ed lied about the scope of the blackout while our community suffered.

Your rates are going up to pay for Con Ed's CEO Kevin Burke's 24% salary increase - paying him almost $5.5 million (including a $1.1 million performance-based bonus)!

We are demanding a reduction in rates, more accountability, improved reliability, and major changes in the way Con Ed conducts business.

Sign our petition and join us at a community rally:
Thursday, August 14th - 11 AM
Corner of 37 Avenue & 78 Street in Jackson Heights

Attending:
Assembly Member Jose Peralta
Council Member Eric Gioia
District Leader Daniel Dromm
District Leader Dorothy Phelan

image credit: flickr/shoehorn99

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