00:00First, I want to announce my first Deputy Mayor, Dean Fulahan, except that I know for
00:12many he will require no introduction.
00:16I am grateful to him for returning to public service, and I know he has chosen to do so
00:21because he believes in our administration's ability to deliver universal childcare, making
00:26the slowest buses in America fast and free, and freezing the rent for more than 2 million
00:31rent-stabilized tenants in this city.
00:36Dean has been an incredibly influential leader and manager in New York City government and
00:42state government for almost five decades.
00:45No one is better versed in how city government functions, how it engages productively with
00:50leadership in Albany, or has a deeper understanding of how to achieve positive outcomes from even
00:55the most challenging of situations.
01:00I also want to announce my incoming Chief of Staff, the unparalleled El Bisgard Church.
01:12Few have played a more central role in this movement, or in every victory we achieved together
01:17in the Assembly, than El.
01:20She became my Assembly Chief of Staff nearly five years ago to the day.
01:24She worked closely with me to win hundreds of millions of dollars in relief for taxi drivers,
01:29and served as the campaign manager for our historic primary campaign.
01:34Anyone who knows El knows her as someone unapologetically committed to the cause of improving the lives
01:40of working people.
01:41A million people said last week that they want more from City Hall, that they expect better
01:54from their leaders.
01:56They said loudly and clearly, it is not asking too much that New York be a place people can
02:01afford to live.
02:03The mayor-elect has received a democratic mandate.
02:07We take seriously the responsibility of this mandate, and all that it will take to run the
02:11city well.
02:13We will work relentlessly to make good on our campaign promises.
02:17During my tenure, I promise that this administration will be open-minded, strategically oriented, and
02:24pragmatically focused.
02:26We will be open to new ideas, because we know the old ones aren't working.
02:32It is my pleasure and honor to welcome the Mamdani Administration's First Deputy Mayor, Dean Foulihan.
02:45I come from an immigrant family.
02:48My father, an immigrant from Lebanon, my mother whose parents immigrated from Lebanon, and her
02:53first language Arabic.
02:55They struggled, and succeeded, and instilled in my brothers and me a deep sense of public
03:02service, and a commitment to providing others that same opportunity.
03:09The same is true of my wife's parents, who both immigrated from Korea.
03:14The mayor-elect has provided that same hope in every message throughout the campaign.
03:23I am one of the many that was deeply inspired by that message of hope.
03:29I firmly believe in this agenda, and I am proud to join a team that will be devoted to
03:35this agenda and will work every day to make it happen.
03:38A specific thing that you have dealt with is a Trump administration, and I wonder if…
03:50The truth is I am 5'11".
03:52It's true that I am shorter than one of the previous mayors.
03:55I am going to create a new City Hall.
04:04It is a City Hall that will look to experts in the work of government, experts such as our
04:13soon-to-be First Deputy Mayor.
04:15But it is not a City Hall that looks to any previous administration as a model that we
04:19will take on word-for-word, step-for-step.
04:22We are making our own, and we are lucky in that there are many who have come before us
04:26who have shown us both the ways in which we can succeed and the pitfalls that await those
04:30who look to do so.
04:31And I am excited to build on that.
04:52You
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