QUESTION
What are NYC's plans for extending subway safety measures and addressing unlicensed cannabis businesses?
1:41:42
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NYC aims to increase subway safety by extending overtime hours and seeks authority to enforce padlock orders on unlicensed cannabis businesses.
- NYC plans to extend overtime hours for subway safety from the current 3,000 to 5,000, with a goal of reaching 10,000 hours.
- The state previously funded $62 million for a 3.5-month enforcement period, and discussions are ongoing to extend this through the end of the year.
- For cannabis business enforcement, the city awaits clarity on the mayor’s authority and will assess funding needs upon receiving it.
- The goal is to collaborate with the city council to allocate the necessary funds for enforcement against unlicensed cannabis businesses.
Keith Powers
1:41:42
One is, at the subway safety plan, which I believe the administration recently announced, will there be extending shifts in the subway system to to address recent uptick in subway crimes.
1:41:54
Can you talk to us about what spending will be associated with that?
1:41:57
I thought in the last version of this with the governor, the state had also provided funding for that to reimburse at least for overtime costs Can you provide us an update on that?
1:42:07
And second is the governor's executive budget included a proposal to allow local governments to execute padlock orders on unlicensed business businesses through the Office of Cannabis Management.
1:42:21
If that was to pass, and the city council took action in the enacted budget after the enacted budget, will we be doing anything to increase means to shut down those unlicensed businesses or adding anything into enforcement as part of this budget or in the future?
Jacques Jiha
1:42:38
Yes.
1:42:41
The plan is to go back to about 5000 hours over time.
1:42:46
From the currently, we have 32 hours 3000 hours over time.
1:42:51
That's what the the deployment supposed to be.
1:42:54
Ultimately, the goal is to get to go because we've been working with the state to see if we could get 10000 hours over time, okay, been added to this plan.
1:43:07
Last time, the state covers about 3.5 months for about $62,000,000.
1:43:12
We're working with them to see because we're trying to get that expansion to be done through the end of to the end of this year.
1:43:24
Okay.
1:43:25
So I don't know where we're gonna end with the state, but that's what I'm gonna end with situation.
1:43:30
We're talking to them to see if we will get to the 10,000 because that's what they truly believe that we really need But what they announced last week was just an expansion of, like, 55,000 hours, which was, like, you know, compromise things from their perspective, but what they truly need is about 10000 hours.
1:43:51
Regarding the cannabis, we definitely will make an assessment.
1:43:55
Okay?
1:43:56
And and and as we go through this, and as I said, the mayor wants to have the authority, okay, to jail to to manage, to close down these shops.
1:44:07
And once we do the assessment, if we get the authority, we would provide the work with the council and provide the appropriate funding, okay, to make sure that we have the necessary enforcement.
Keith Powers
1:44:18
And I just and I was and I was gonna say, do you have any send do you have any sense of what that investment would look like in order to do proper enforcement.
Jacques Jiha
1:44:25
Again, we're waiting to find out exactly what kind of litigation of authority.
1:44:29
What does it what does it mean?
1:44:31
That's what we need a lot more before we could give an assessment of our major headquarters.
Keith Powers
1:44:37
Okay.
1:44:37
Thank you.