QUESTION
What happened to the $2.1 million funding for the Rockaway Avenue Compost site's build-out?
1:05:55
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The $2.1 million for the Rockaway Avenue Compost site's build-out was halted due to budget adjustments in the November plan.
- The $2.1 million was allocated through the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project, not solely through the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) budget.
- No construction has started at the Rockaway site despite initial design work.
- The funding pause impacts the Lower East Side (LES) Ecology Center, which was promised this site as part of program relocation efforts.
- The issue will be further discussed in upcoming council hearings.
Shaun Abreu
1:05:55
What my other question is, what happened to the 2,100,000 in funding?
1:05:59
That was allocated to the build out of the Rockaway Avenue Campos site for the LES Ecology Center.
1:06:05
This funding was allocated through the east side, close to resilience project, not solely through the DSNY budget.
1:06:12
The build out of the Rockaway Ave Campos site was a promise made to the ecology center through the relocation of their programs as a result of the ESCR construction.
Kate Kitchener
1:06:27
Unfortunately, that 2.1 was part of the peg in the November plan.
1:06:30
And so although we had done design to start to fill the facility, we had never actually started construction on the Rockaway site.
Shaun Abreu
1:06:37
Thanks for your transparency.
1:06:39
And it'll be something that I'm sure will come up in in the hearings that we're gonna have in the next few weeks.
1:06:46
You know, expanding our infrastructure is very important.
1:06:51
We, you know, we need especially Manhattan.
1:06:52
Right?
1:06:53
I mean, you know, we we have we we're we're seeing good signs somewhere, but in other in other places, we need to make sure that's equitably done.
1:07:01
And I think that the LES Ecology Center is gonna be very important to that as well.
