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Potential impact on outer borough hotels and workers

1:06:40

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Council Member Farías inquires about the potential impact of the proposed licensing requirements on outer borough hotels, workers, and small businesses. Carlos Ortiz from DCWP responds to these concerns.

Farías expresses concern about the impact on BIPOC workers, immigrant communities, and smaller hotels in outer boroughs
DCWP acknowledges the importance of considering these impacts and welcomes input from stakeholders
The agency emphasizes that the licensing is meant to create a standard for hotel operations in New York City, not to be punitive
DCWP aims to level the playing field between businesses following the rules and those that are not
The agency positions itself as a resource for businesses rather than a purely enforcement entity

Amanda Farías

1:06:40

Okay.

1:06:40

And then have you folks looked at, like, the Outer Burrow impact for some of these hotels and workers?

Carlos Ortiz

1:06:49

Could you clarify which what do you mean by impact?

Amanda Farías

1:06:51

Just in terms of who could be directly impacted whether it's bipoch workers, immigrant communities, and some of the smaller hotels.

1:07:02

Like, I have small hotels, motels in my district.

1:07:05

I don't have any of the large branches.

1:07:08

And just trying to gauge, have we looked at the economic impact both of the worker that's going to be impacted locally and of the small business.

Carlos Ortiz

1:07:16

Well, I think I'm I think it's I think that's something that would be important to consider and why we're having the hearing today.

1:07:22

It's it's great to be to hear directly from those stakeholders on the issues of those impacts.

1:07:26

You know, I think given we we have been we have been also working to learn as much as we can in the past week since the hearing was noticed.

1:07:33

Mhmm.

1:07:34

But that said, I I think for us, I wanna make sure that folks understand that we wanna be here as a resource for them, not not meant to be punitive.

1:07:41

It's meant to create a to create a floor, a standard in New York City for how hotel should operate.

1:07:47

You know, one one situation that I frequently encounter, for example, is a business that feels they're following all the rules, doing all the right things by their workers, by their consumers.

1:07:54

And then just down the street of business, that's not.

1:07:56

And I think we need to correct that situation, and that's what the intent of this bill is.

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