QUESTION
What are the plans to increase sanitation services for growing business corridors?
1:42:10
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85 sec
The council member inquires about any plans to enhance sanitation services like additional garbage cans for expanding business areas. The sanitation commissioner explains that while individual council members can use discretionary funds to install more litter baskets in their districts, the department's budget is primarily for replacing existing worn-out baskets, with no provision for increasing services beyond that.
- The department receives a fixed budget for replacing old/broken litter baskets each year.
- There is no separate allocation to add more baskets in growing business areas.
- Council members can use their own discretionary funds to install additional litter baskets.
- The new litter baskets last longer than the old ones, making them a worthwhile investment.
Susan Zhuang
1:42:10
And also the other question is, for the I have business corridors.
1:42:18
And as the area is growing, business is growing.
1:42:22
Do you guys have any plans for the area?
1:42:25
Business is growing, put more, garbage can put more service is something we have to order it?
Jessica Tisch
1:42:33
A number of your colleagues have used in their discretionary funds to fund additional litter baskets, the better bins, in their districts, and it's something that has been very popular and very successful.
1:42:50
And what I would say is The new litter baskets, they last so much longer than the old ones did.
1:42:57
They'd break every break every year.
1:42:59
These these will last quite some some time, so it's a great investment to make not just now, but for the future.
Susan Zhuang
1:43:06
So the city in general don't have any plan for that.
1:43:10
So only for us
Jessica Tisch
1:43:12
We get a certain amount of money each year to spend on new litter baskets.
1:43:19
And those generally replace litter baskets that that were existing but are, you know, old or or worn out.
1:43:28
And so, no, we don't have money in our budget to do more than that.
Susan Zhuang
1:43:34
Okay.
1:43:34
Thank you.
1:43:35
Thanks.