QUESTION
Has the Department of Correction been in talks about transferring decommissioned buildings and vacant land to DCAS?
4:02:05
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The NYC Department of Correction has not yet identified properties for transfer but continues to assess potential opportunities.
- The Department of Correction is currently assessing properties for potential turnover.
- No properties have been identified as available for turnover to DCAS at this moment.
- Council Member Sandy Nurse highlights the existence of unused land and buildings during a tour.
- Sandy Nurse references the city's non-compliance with the Renewable Rikers law and urges for the transfer of vacant parcels to DCAS.
Sandy Nurse
4:02:05
I did have one more question.
4:02:07
I'd be remiss if I didn't ask Has DOC been in any conversations regarding the now decommissioned buildings in terms of when we might be turning that the new building in Kim Sea and vacant land over to Decast have you been in any conversations where there's a plan being developed?
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
4:02:29
We continue to assist.
4:02:32
Right now, there are no available available properties to turnover, but that's something that's ongoing our assessing of that.
Sandy Nurse
4:02:39
When we toured, we toured fully outside of facilities.
4:02:43
There was swaths of open vacant land that has no plans, you know, storage containers that probably need to be emptied, offices that aren't being used.
4:02:55
It seems like there was an abundance of land available to transfer over.
4:03:00
As we know, the administration is now almost coming up on almost five times of being noncompliant with the renewable rikers law of 2019.
4:03:09
There's just really no rationale for are not transferring these parcels of land open.
4:03:14
We're not building new jails, so any vacant land should just be turned over.
4:03:19
And it would be really great to see some kind of some kind of plan for how the city can become compliant because it really would be very simple to start handing over some of those parcels over to Decast.
Althea Stevens
4:03:34
Okay.
Sandy Nurse
4:03:35
Okay.
4:03:36
Great.
4:03:37
Thank you, commissioner.
4:03:38
It was nice to meet you in person.
4:03:41
Thank you for for being here, and we're gonna take another break.
4:03:44
Thank you.