QUESTION
What are the details regarding the outreach and budget for the new commercial waste zone program?
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The commissioner explains that the $1.5 million contract covers outreach capacity for the entire city's commercial waste zone program rollout.
- The initial $1.5 million budget is more than needed for outreach in just the first zone.
- The department will learn from the first zone pilot if more or less outreach budget is required citywide.
- The commissioner shows examples of mailers and flyers in multiple languages for business outreach in the first Queens zone.
Shaun Abreu
0:56:12
And will there be a a new RFP, or were they or were this or were this would this company also do the outreach for the other borrowers or as they get rolled out?
Jessica Tisch
0:56:23
We size this contract to make sure that we would have the capacity for them to do the outreach for the whole city.
0:56:33
If we find we mentioned that we are gonna be learning from this pilot program.
0:56:39
And if meaning for the 1st zone.
0:56:42
And if we find that we need more outreach, more budget, we will certainly come back to you on it, but we'll learn more this summer as it proceeds.
Shaun Abreu
0:56:54
And do you think that 1,500,000 is, you know, suffices for the initial phase of
Jessica Tisch
0:57:00
outreach.
0:57:00
So but oh, for the for the initial zone.
0:57:02
Oh, yeah.
0:57:03
It's way more than we need for the initial zone.
0:57:05
I think it's what we need city wide.
0:57:07
But I may come back to you after we've done the 1st zone and say, actually, I think we need a little more, I think we need a little less I keep saying that this first phase is an important phase to learn from.
0:57:18
And among the things that we are going to learn is did we size the outreach appropriately.
0:57:28
Oh, I brought I brought with with me for you.
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This is the mailer chair that every business in Queen Central is gonna get.
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It's in multiple languages.
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And also the flyer that will be given door to door also in multiple languages.