QUESTION
What is the plan and timeline for dredging Alison Pond Park to address flooding concerns?
4:26:03
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Council Member Kamillah Hanks highlights the need to dredge Alison Pond Park, a crucial component of the North Shore runoff drainage plan, to alleviate persistent flooding in the Randall Manor and Livingston neighborhoods.
- Commissioner Sue Donoghue acknowledges the importance of enhancing the city's resilience through green infrastructure initiatives like wetlands mitigation.
- However, she lacks a specific timeline for the dredging project at Alison Pond Park.
- The discussion concludes with a commitment to follow up offline to address the dredging plan and timeline.
Kamillah Hanks
4:26:03
So in the city council's fiscal preliminary 2025 budget response, we noted that the parks and recreation park maintenance needed to be restored to prior levels.
4:26:13
The budget response also called in the administration to add 59,700,000.
4:26:17
The executive plan does not include any additional funding for the council's priorities.
4:26:22
And so I say that to say that we have repeatedly called for the dredging of Alison Pond Park, which is a vital link to flood resilience in the North Shore runoff drainage plan.
4:26:34
And because this dredge dredging has not taken place, several flooding incidents have occurred in this in this year in in Randall Manor And Livingston Neighborhoods.
4:26:44
What is the plan to dredge this important parkland and relieve my district?
4:26:50
Some of this persistent and consistent flood concern.
Sue Donoghue
4:26:56
Thank you, Councilwoman for the question.
4:26:58
And We are very much focused on enhancing the resiliency of the city and utilizing green infrastructure initiatives, a number of opportunities to enhance the resiliency of the city very much concerned about flooding.
4:27:17
That's why we're planting as many trees as we can.
4:27:19
That's why we're very focused focused on our wetlands mitigation and lens management framework.
4:27:25
They're dredging at that particular location.
4:27:28
I don't think I have a specific timeline on, but how happy to address that.
Tami Lin-Moges
4:27:32
Yeah.
4:27:32
We'll offline.
Kamillah Hanks
4:27:33
We'll also I don't know if you have anything to yeah.
4:27:36
Add to that.
4:27:36
You look very like, you had something to say.
Matt Drury
4:27:39
No.
4:27:39
Not at all.
Sue Donoghue
4:27:39
Just like we'll get back to figure out on it.
Kamillah Hanks
4:27:42
So one more question.