QUESTION
What are the agency's plans to utilize fumigation techniques for rat mitigation?
1:07:22
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The commissioner explains that she does not oversee rat extermination techniques as that falls under other agencies like the Department of Health and Department of Education.
- The commissioner's role is focused on getting trash off the streets to stop feeding rats
- She is not up to speed on specific extermination methods used by other agencies
- The council member had success using fumigation in tree pits in her own office
- But fumigation is labor intensive and difficult to fund from a council office budget
Julie Menin
1:07:22
And my next question is on RATMID So I know you and I've had a number of conversations where I'm using in my office our expo to actually treat the tree pits where we fumigate them.
1:07:35
We've had tremendous success with that.
1:07:38
But it's labor intensive, obviously, and it's not something that we can just fund out of our office.
1:07:43
It does the agency have any plans to utilize that technique.
Jessica Tisch
1:07:49
I am not the rights are.
1:07:50
I'm the sanitation commissioner.
1:07:53
And my stake in the war on rats is to get the trash off the streets and stop feeding the rats.
1:08:04
The exterminators don't report to me.
1:08:07
They work at the Department of Health, the Department of Education, Nigia, and so unfortunately, I am not up to speed on what specific techniques they use or don't use.
Julie Menin
1:08:18
Okay.
1:08:19
Thank you.