QUESTION
Has the Economic Development Corporation discussed noise mitigation or monitoring with the Port Authority?
1:29:19
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Mikelle Adgate confirms that the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) has not yet discussed noise mitigation or monitoring with the Port Authority.
- Adgate mentions the EDC's role in amplifying community concerns at airport board meetings.
- Despite past discussions on environmental sustainability, noise mitigation has not been a focus in EDC's conversations with the Port Authority. - Adgate recommends addressing these concerns directly to the Port Authority in the upcoming advisory council meeting.
- Council Member Brooks Powers emphasizes the need for the Port Authority to engage directly with government bodies on this issue.
Brooks Powers
1:29:19
And then in the lease extension, it talks also about the environmental component, and I know the port authority has been heavily focused on sustainability, electrification of the the buses on airport.
1:29:37
And what have you.
1:29:38
But there has been and this is within the redevelopment or even looking beyond the redevelopment and just said, SJFK as a neighbor in terms of the noise mitigation investments.
1:29:53
They hasn't really been anything that I've heard of as it pertains to noise mitigation or monitoring.
1:30:02
Is that any part of the conversations that EDC has had with the Port Authority?
1:30:07
Because this has come up in past committee vising council meetings.
1:30:11
I think this was before EDC actually started going to them, but I'm not sure if you look back to any of the notes or anything.
1:30:17
But has that been a part of any conversations that you all had?
Mikelle Adgate
1:30:23
You know, as as we were saying to council member, nurses, it it has not been yet.
1:30:29
As, you know, as we've explained, I think, part of our role now is to really think critically about how to amplify community concerns in those airport board meetings.
1:30:43
But I can't say that.
1:30:44
We've, like, gone back to, you know, previous Community Advisory Council meetings, you know, prior to 2023.
1:30:52
To check-in on on status updates.
1:30:55
And, you know, again, I would just encourage that with this upcoming advisory council meeting, that that would be a really appropriate venue to ask the Port Authority those kinds of questions directly.
Brooks Powers
1:31:13
I hear you, but I think that the portatory as a government agency also has the ability to come to a government and body intensified just like EDC is doing as well.