PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by David Goldberg, Principal of Streetplus Company, on Containerization Challenges for BIDs
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David Goldberg, a principal at Streetplus Company, testifies about the challenges Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) face with the proposed garbage containerization efforts in NYC. While supporting the goal of a cleaner city, he raises concerns about the financial and operational impacts on BIDs, especially smaller ones.
- Highlights the potential shift in duties for clean ambassadors, from cleaning to managing containers
- Questions the logistics of container implementation, including quantity, cost, and maintenance
- Emphasizes the need to address various sources of trash beyond typical pedestrian litter
David Goldberg
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Good morning.
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I am David Goldberg, a principal with Street Plus Company.
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We we have been providing supplemental sanitation services to bids since 1991.
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We applaud the effort to try and containerize garbage towards a cleaner city.
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However, it's important to understand that bids, and especially smaller bids, will need more financial resources to execute containerization successfully.
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I'm afraid that our clean ambassadors will be spending an inordinate amount of time moving bags into containers and less time cleaning our vibrant commercial districts.
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Our teams presently sweep the sidewalks, curb lines, and empty and reline the trash receptacle.
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All bags are placed adjacent to the trash receptacles, providing an efficient way for the DSNY teams to go through a district quickly, cutting down and idling on our congested streets.
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Many bids have asked me, how many containers will I need, and how much will it cost?
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It's an important question with varied answers.
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How frequently will DSNY empty the containers?
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How accurate are the DSNY schedules and pickups?
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Will a city budget deficit or financial issue reduce pickups, resulting in the need for more containers if the pickups are reduced?
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Bids will also need to pay the vendors like myself to power wash, maintain, and clean these containers.
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It's also important to understand how garbage finds its way into the con corner trash receptacles and garbage bags.
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It's not only coffee cups and food wrappers that end up in our corner receptacles, but garbage that is in proper disposal, legal dumping, legal and illegal vendors, as well as businesses without private carders, as well as residents who use these trash receptacles for their own garbage.
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If we move forward with containerization, we must simultaneously confront the aforementioned aforementioned violators to reduce trash in our city streets and sidewalks.
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Moreover, our teams routinely need to clean, mounds of garbage from the unhoused population that's strewn our streets all day.
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Thank you.
