QUESTION
How are lifeguard training locations chosen to ensure accessibility for all New Yorkers?
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The New York City Parks Commissioner confirms that they have doubled the number of lifeguard training sites to enhance citywide accessibility.
- Sue Donoghue mentions the addition of training sites, including one in Chelsea, to improve accessibility.
- The increase in sites aims to address concerns about the commuting challenges for trainees from distant boroughs.
- The expansion is part of a prioritized effort to ensure broader access across the five boroughs.
- Challenges remain in further expanding the number of training sites, including the availability of qualified instructors.
Shekar Krishnan
0:57:35
And my last point, oh, and then one more question I have too, which is, you know, I'm glad to hear the number of training sites that are now in in in use.
0:57:47
Do you know if that serves all New Yorkers And the reason I asked that is because I have a constituent whose child just passed the lifeguard qualifying exam, but they have to go to Fort Hamilton from Jackson Heights to participate in the training.
0:58:05
That's a 2 hour at least Subway ride all the way from Jackson Heights Queens to Fort Hamilton.
0:58:12
Mhmm.
0:58:12
To me, if that is representative of what others who who have to participate in the training you have to do.
0:58:19
That's another way you're limiting the amount of people who can participate, which is very difficult to manage getting one that far for training.
0:58:26
So can you talk a bit more about what are the sites and how do you accommodate, especially for bottles like Mountain Queen's and others How do you accommodate having training facilities that are close enough, that don't create a burden in themselves, people who are who are who have passed the qualifying test?
Sue Donoghue
0:58:42
Thank you for the question, and we absolutely agree the importance of having training sites that are located across the city.
0:58:49
Which is why, as we said earlier, that we doubled the number of those training sites available.
0:58:54
So Fort Hamilton, the s is a different from Queens.
0:58:57
We have Chelsea, our rec center, and then We've worked hard to make alternative sites available for the qualifying tests, and it's been a big priority.
0:59:06
Of this administration and of commission and run rate as we're set to expand those sets.
0:59:11
So we've doubled the number of training sites.
0:59:13
Where we're limited in going beyond the doubling of sites is that it takes, you need the instructors, you need the people who are can actually accommodate those tests, which will also look to improve those numbers.
0:59:26
But as I said earlier, we have this year.
0:59:29
We've doubled the number of sites of available.
0:59:31
So we agree with you.
0:59:32
It's really important to have more access and have more access across the five borrowers, and we've worked hard to do that.
