Q&A
DSNY efficiency metrics and overtime costs from the Mayor's Management Report
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4 min
Council Member Abreu inquires about DSNY efficiency metrics, particularly the 'dump on shift' rates and overtime costs reported in the Mayor's Management Report. Deputy Commissioner Goodman explains the 'dump on shift' metric and how DSNY has improved it through creative planning and route optimization.
- 'Dump on shift' is an efficiency metric measuring whether trucks complete their routes and dump waste within a single 8-hour shift
- DSNY has improved 'dump on shift' rates through creative planning and route optimization
- Overtime costs have decreased by about 15% from FY23 to FY24, but remain significant at $158.3 million in FY24
Shaun Abreu
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Alright.
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So those are I I I I personally share the goal of of of increasing compost or rather source separation of organic materials at businesses, but I'm I'm just I need to know to what extent has under the law that passed many years ago how enforcement has looked like for those businesses subject to that before we decide, you know what?
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Everybody should be subject to this.
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Right?
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That's an important piece that we're gonna need as as as a committee.
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Alright.
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I'm gonna turn over to talk about plastics really quickly.
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Actually, before I do that, let me just dive into the mayor's management report.
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The mayor's management report was recently released and we have some additional questions on what we read.
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56.8% of refuse trucks and 26.2%.
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Of recycling trucks were dumped on shift in fiscal 2024, resulting in a need for staff overtime Mhmm.
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For dumping of over 40% of DSNY collection trucks.
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DSNY paid 158,300,000 in overtime pay during FY 24 and 176,200,000 in FY 23, acknowledging that the agency has made a significant improvement in this area over the last year, 15% or so.
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How will BSNO continue to improve this number to reduce staff overtime costs?
Joshua Goodman
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So, dump on shift just to provide some definitions for everybody in the room is a an efficiency metric.
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In sort of an ideal world, when you're not dealing with the actual reality of life on the streets of New York City, sanitation worker would go out on a route, fill up their truck with material, and take it to the dump and empty it on the same 8 hour shift, bringing the truck back to their garage empty so that it's ready to be used.
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However, in many parts of the city that is not possible, filling up the truck alone takes a full 8 hour shift and because of the geography of the city.
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So DumpunShift has seen a substantial increase, particularly on the refuse side, thanks to creative planning by commissioner Tisha and our collections office around the destinations of some of the districts.
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Okay?
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Instead of going to this dump, you'll go to this dump because it's you know, the people from here will go there.
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Moving things around has seen a big increase.
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It remains one of our most important efficiency metric and we're continuing to analyze options and discretion that we may have within our contracts.
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Because, of course, you know, one of the things that sort of protects the city's waste stream broadly is our contracts for waste for waste transport.
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And so those contracts protect us, and they protect in this city from having trash piling up everywhere.
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But they also come with some sort of, okay, this much material has to go here, this much has to go there.
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So we're looking for ways within those contracts to continue to increase that efficiency metric, and we're happy to say we made a lot of progress.
Shaun Abreu
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So you would say that dumped on shift has increased because of the reduction in time travel or distance travel.
Joshua Goodman
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Yes.
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That's a major piece of it.
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There is some change to the collection routes themselves, although the the biggest change is creative thinking about where where within the city.
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The truck is taken to be dumped.
Shaun Abreu
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And have you identified other opportunities in the upcoming year or so to continue dumped?
Joshua Goodman
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I I don't wanna I'll just say anything that could potentially conflict with current or future procurements.
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I'll just say that this is a goal that's important to us.
Shaun Abreu
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Alright.
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Well, we we would like to see that improvement continue.
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I appreciate your answer on that.
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The average proportion of collection trucks that were out of service and school 24 increased from 26% in FY 23 to 28% in FY 24, a 5 year high.
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As DS and Y refreshes its fleet, to what extent is it looking to
