Q&A
Loo York City working group composition and activities
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Council Member Sandy Nurse inquires about the details of the Loo York City working group, including its composition and meeting frequency. Ya-Ting Liu provides information on the group's structure and focus areas.
- The working group meets biweekly and includes representatives from various city departments
- Core members include the deputy mayor for operations, DOT, and Parks department
- The group focuses on advancing the existing pipeline of restroom projects and citing automated public toilets
Sandy Nurse
0:46:36
The I wanted to talk about the Lou York City.
0:46:38
I love that name, the working group.
0:46:41
You're coordinating between agencies, advance the existing pipeline of restrooms now in development.
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You're generating new policies.
0:46:48
Can you give us a little more details in terms of who's a part of this working group?
0:46:53
Has it met yet or and how often is it scheduled to meet?
Ya-Ting Liu
0:46:56
Yeah.
0:46:57
That's a great question.
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We we've been meeting on a biweekly basis.
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The core members of this team are deputy mayor for operations.
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We have DOT in the Parks department because right now we're really focused on making sure the Parks pipeline of restroom projects are being moved on the on time, on budget.
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And then also really focused on citing those 14 automatic public toilets that's sitting in DOT's portfolio.
0:47:28
We welcome other city agencies, so sometimes we'll pull in DCP to look at POPs, for example, the publicly owned private spaces, to see what is the status of restrooms in those spaces to make sure that they are readily open to the public.
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We'll also pull pull in other agencies like Mox, for example, to look at other tools that may be at city agencies disposal as a way to figure out how do we get units out faster.
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So for example, mocks, they are piloting a new tool that is called challenge based procurement.
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And they really recently gave us a briefing on that.
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That could be a strategy to help the parks department or other agencies think about getting more restrooms out on the street.
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So
Sandy Nurse
0:48:28
given the I mean, you're kinda getting at my next question, especially around automatic automated public toilets.
