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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Parks and quality of life improvements across New York City
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Jacques Jiha outlines the city's investments in parks and quality of life improvements, focusing on cleanliness, green spaces, and community amenities.
- Expansion of second shift cleaning to 200 more hotspots at 60 parks.
- Hiring of additional park staff to treat up to 4,000 tree beds annually, helping to reduce the rat population and address public service requests.
- Funding for 54 new programming and support staff, such as recreation specialists and lifeguards at the new Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center in East Flatbush, set to open in fall 2025.
- Opening of additional schoolyards as public playgrounds, putting 20,000 more New Yorkers within walking distance of a park.
Jacques Jiha
0:24:45
To help the city clean to help keep the city clean and green and improve the quality of life across the five walls, the preliminary budget adds funds to the Parks Department's budget to support the mayor's state of the city's commitment to expand second shift cleaning to more to hundred more hotspots at 60 parks.
0:25:06
Additional park staff will also be hired to treat up to 4,000 trees, tree beds annually to help reduce the rat population and address public service requests.
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Further, we funded 54 new programming and support staff such as recreation specialists and lifeguards at the new Shedi Chisholm Recreation Center in East Flatbush that is set to open in the fall of twenty twenty five.
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And to ensure that more families have safe supportive places to play in their own neighborhoods, we are opening additional schoolyards for use as public playgrounds which will put 20,000 more New Yorkers within walking distance of a park.
0:25:51
Finally, we have invested in the city's largest ever ten year capital plan.