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In council

Council committees

Committees are where the real work happens: councillors question the mayor, aldermen and members of the public on plans before the council decides.

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Council Committee on Sustainability and Circular Economy3:20 speaking time

Follow-up on her Congo motion

The committee discussed how the executive had dealt with her motion 422 on Amsterdam’s responsibility in the energy transition without harming human rights in the Global South. Carla explained why cobalt and coltan from eastern Congo, with its armed conflict, child labour and environmental destruction, matter to Amsterdam: they are in batteries, phones and medical equipment. Alderman Pels said it is important that attention keeps being drawn to Congo. Some of her questions were referred to Alderman Van Buren; Carla took them to his committee (in Dutch).

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Questions + answers · 6:34

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Raadscommissie Woningbouw en Volkshuisvesting19:02 as chair

Nieuw beleid voor de realisatie van middenhuurwoningen

Carla chaired the meeting during the discussion of nieuw beleid voor de realisatie van middenhuurwoningen, monitor Prestatieafspraken 2024 and voorstel van het college over de invulling van het compromis dat is gesloten in het kader van het Volksinitiatief Eerlijke kansen op sociale huurwoningen (in Dutch).

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Council Committee on General Affairs1:35 speaking time

Ombudsman and Children’s Ombudsman: annual review

On the annual review of the Ombudsman and the Children’s Ombudsman, Carla asked what they think of one coordinator per family, so that agencies do not work past each other. She also asked how residents who have been sent from pillar to post themselves can help find solutions, and whether the city can think creatively about people-centred and predictable services, where residents can signal faster where the system causes unnecessary suffering (in Dutch).

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Council Committee on Finance, Arts and Diversity2:12 speaking time

AFIS and the civil servants’ work stoppage

After a new error in the AFIS payment system, in which amounts were paid twice, Carla said: mistakes are human, but this one was avoidable. She asked which technical and procedural safeguards are now in place, whether recommendations from earlier studies have not yet been implemented, and what the consequences are for care and youth providers. On the civil servants’ work stoppage of 1 September she asked why civil servants should remain neutral, when we now reject such behaviour from the Second World War (in Dutch).

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Questions + answers · 2:17

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Council Committee on Education, Care and Poverty1:54 speaking time

Hidden poverty

On the study of hidden poverty, Carla pointed to the working poor and entrepreneurs who do not know about available schemes. She asked whether people in that situation, or those who support them, can help think about how to reach them, and how much contact there is with entrepreneurs’ groups organised around ethnicity: one message in such a group reaches hundreds of people. She also asked whether the database from the COVID period is still used to approach entrepreneurs, and how children can help their parents. The alderman said the database has been used and that communication is targeted in the Masterplan areas (in Dutch).

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Questions + answers · 8:09

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