REMARKS
Financial impacts of containerization on communities and property owners
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Council Member Julie Won addresses the financial impacts of new containerization requirements on communities and property owners in New York City. She emphasizes that these administrative decisions have real-world consequences for various stakeholders.
- Property owners, especially smaller ones and single homeowners, face significant costs to comply with new bin requirements.
- Smaller BIDs are caught between new mandates and existing obligations.
- Won expresses concern that DSNY's proposed changes may end sidewalk sweeping and supplemental litter basket emptying as currently known.
- There are worries that smaller BIDs may not be able to handle the new work and might end supplemental contracts for sanitation altogether.
Julie Won
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The bottom line is that these just aren't just administrative decisions.
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They have real financial impacts on our communities, prop communities.
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Property owners, especially smaller ones for single owned homeowners, are facing significant costs to comply with new bin requirements.
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Our smaller bids are caught between these new mandates and their existing obligations.
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DSNY's proposed changes have a potential to end sidewalk sweeping and supplemental litter baskets emptying as we know it.
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And we also know that there is a high amount of concerns that the smaller bids, may not be able to do this work and may end the supplemental contracts for sanitation altogether.
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We need to make sure our contracting approach considers the practical reality here as we expand the city's waste management goals that we all share together.
