Q&A
Monitor's approach to overseeing large-scale projects like Sandy resiliency construction
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Council Member Avilés raises concerns about the Sandy resiliency construction project in Red Hook and inquires about the monitor's approach to overseeing such large-scale projects. Matt Cipolla explains their holistic approach to monitoring NYCHA's performance across various areas.
- Avilés describes the challenges and resident frustrations with the ongoing Sandy resiliency project in Red Hook
- Cipolla emphasizes the monitor's value in looking at data across various areas rather than focusing on isolated pillars
- The monitor team aims to consider the broader impact of projects on multiple aspects of NYCHA's performance, including pests, capital deployment, and other maintenance issues
Alexa Avilés
0:39:34
Yeah.
0:39:34
Great.
0:39:35
Thank you.
0:39:35
We do we'll appreciate that, especially since you're you're new and I'd love to understand where you expect to maybe build out, and I suppose you're as you're building out your plan.
0:39:47
That will evolve.
0:39:49
So going right back to another question, chair, this will be my last one.
0:39:54
So I represent a development in Redhook, which is the 2nd largest nitrogen development in New York City.
0:40:02
And it is one of the, I think, I forgot how many that has undergone a sandy resiliency construction project.
0:40:11
In fact, it was a city limits article.
0:40:14
That came out, I think yesterday, about the travails of these major resiliency projects, half a $1,000,000,000 project, 12 years later.
0:40:24
Definitely progress and a lot of complications.
0:40:27
I think things people could not anticipate blood really profound frustration by the residents of the conditions that they've been living in.
0:40:38
That are everything from just eating dust all day because there's mountains of of, you know, soil everywhere to having nowhere where to go and a phone full of rats actually climbing chain link fence, which I never knew actually happened.
0:40:57
We're all working through them.
0:40:59
I guess what I was curious about is given the pillar areas for the monitor, how how does the monitor handle the overlay of a project of this kind of magnitude in their kind of investigation and monitoring.
Matt Cipolla
0:41:17
Yeah.
0:41:17
It's a great question I think fits in with one of our values, which is not to look at things as pillars, as much as possible.
0:41:24
I mean, obviously, it's it's an important thing to be able to tell you the answer for a heat metric, what is it?
0:41:30
But for these types of issues like these Sandy projects or some of the things Neil mentioned, you have to look at it.
0:41:37
Broader than that.
0:41:39
So when we do this type of work, one of the value ads that we're trying to bring is looking at the data across the various areas to make sure that If it's having an impact on pests, we're not looking at pests in isolation, we're also looking at how the capital is being deployed and is it on schedule, we're also looking at whether x interior work is being is being done for, you know, lead abatement or pest management.
0:42:10
But the point is we want to bring all of those things together, and that that is a core value for us.
0:42:16
Okay.
