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Collaboration between city agencies to address syringe litter
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Council Member Linda Lee inquires about the collaboration between city agencies to address syringe litter in public spaces. Rebecca Linn-Walton explains the inter-agency cooperation efforts.
- Multiple agencies are involved, including Parks, Sanitation, Department of Homeless Services (DHS), and NYPD
- Regular meetings are held to coordinate efforts and address various aspects of the issue
- Collaboration aims to address safety, substance use, mental health, and homelessness concerns
- The approach is tailored to the specific needs of each neighborhood
- Community providers are also involved in the collaborative efforts
Linda Lee
0:29:31
Thank you.
0:29:34
So just to clarify because I know that you had mentioned parks and sanitation, So are those the only city agencies that are partnering to currently ensure that the public spaces like the parks and playgrounds are free of syringe litter?
0:29:48
Is it those two mainly, sanitation and parks, or are there others?
Rebecca Linn-Walton
0:29:51
No.
0:29:51
Part of what I love so much about working in city government is so we work with we have many, many, many mass all the organization meetings, so we work very closely with DHS and then sometimes we find that our outreach workers and their outreach workers would actually do better to just let our community providers be doing the outreach together.
0:30:09
So we're working hand in hand with DHS, with parks, with sanitation, with NYPD, with if they're interested, we'll we'll bring them in, you know.
0:30:20
So we have many, many meetings where we're trying to figure out what are all the angles because there's a safety angle.
0:30:25
Maybe in some neighborhoods the issue is more sales, and in other neighborhoods the issue is more street homelessness, and in other neighborhoods it might be substance use or mental health or a combination of all of those.
0:30:37
And so you want all of those players at the table to figure out what is each agency's piece of that and how do we work more effectively with community providers.