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Case in point: Cuomo's last budget included new firing powers over the Public Authorities Control Board, the very body that spelled the end of the Amazon deal. #HQ2Forumhttps://twitter.com/andEps/status/1118662718658097152 …

.@AlisonHirsh worries that the reaction of the Albany political class to the collapse of the Amazon deal will have far more negative consequences for progressive policy than Amazon's presence in Queens would have. #HQ2Forum

Summary thread on the #hq2forum talk @CivicHallhttps://twitter.com/andEps/status/1118643460909731840 …

"If you followed the news, you'd think there was a $3B pot of money that cld go to Amazon or something else & that the Mayor + Governor said 'Amazon looks better'. That's not what happened and it seems the debate was divorced from reality" - @juliepsamuels at @CivicHall #hq2forum

Now on Q&A. Tristan Louis of a small start-up, Casebook, says he was opposed to HQ2 because they are bad for startups. They are snapping up the workers he wants to hire. #HQ2Forum

.@lpafridi: "Training programs are not enough...we need a quota for local hiring." #HQ2Forum

Government has to play a bigger role in this, @juliepsamuels notes. Tech is helping, she says, pointing to CSNY4all, computer science training in public schools. Or @civichall's planned expansion which include a lot of tech workforce training, she notes. #HQ2Forum.

Tech jobs aren't all bad, @lpafridi points out. This is about who gets those jobs, who gets to stay in NY, who has agency and gets to participate. We should insist those jobs go to local residents. More nodding from whole panel. #HQ2Forum

Issues of dignity at work, pay rates, community benefits, these are all issues of power, @alisonhirsh says. We have to use the leverage and power that we build to force corps to be better citizens. #HQ2Forum But saying "no development" isn't a solution, she adds.

Key difference between Amazon in Queens and Google in Manhattan or tech development in Industry City is the land use process, @lpafridi argues, which the Amazon deal circumvented. It's about whether community gets a voice in planning. #HQ2Forum

Amazon aside, @alykatzz asks how we address the influx of tech companies that's still ongoing--and the gentrification that comes with it. #HQ2Forum

So much rich debate at this post-mordem #HQ2Forum on #AmazonHQ2 @CivicHall -- perspectives from @MaketheRoadNY and other groups

.@lpafridi challenges the entire model of development that prioritizes anything that increases tax revenue and just hoping service sector jobs will trickle down. The problem is development pushes out service sectors workers from even living in the city. #HQ2Forum

.@juliepsamuels says the hope was Amazon workers at HQ2 would start their own companies in NY. .@DebAxt counters that Amazon's role in the economy has suffocated the ability of small businesses to start or survive. #HQ2Forum