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Progress update on council-funded projects at NYCHA
1:49:10
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Council Member Avilés inquires about the progress of council-funded projects at NYCHA. The Chief Asset & Capital Management Officer provides an update on the status of previously paused projects and the benefits of the pause process.
- About 50-55 council and mayoral funded projects were paused 1.5 years ago
- 75% of paused projects have already restarted, with some completed
- The remaining 25% are set to restart by June
- The pause allowed NYCHA to focus on major compliance commitments and larger projects
- The process has helped right-size workloads for project teams, improving quality and attention to all projects
Alexa Avilés
1:49:10
Thank you.
1:49:11
I'll follow-up more specifically.
1:49:13
But in terms of council funded projects, in the testimony it said, those projects are moving forward after kind of long awaited delays.
1:49:23
Can you speak to me more specifically about that?
Shaan Mavani
1:49:26
Sure.
1:49:26
Thank you for the question.
1:49:27
So yes, back about a year and a half ago, for capacity kind of constraints, we put about fifty, fifty five projects that were council funded mainly and some mayoral funded projects on pause formally to rather than just not be able to move them forward but not communicate that we wanted to be more explicit.
1:49:48
And that allowed us to focus our resources on some of our major compliance commitments and larger projects, you know, the boilers, the elevators, things like that.
1:49:57
We had committed to restart any paused projects by this July.
1:50:01
We have restarted 75% already, and in fact a number of them have completed construction.
1:50:06
We have about 25% more restart between now and June.
1:50:10
And that should not be a challenge for us.
1:50:14
What the benefit we've had from this process is that our project teams now are not overloaded and they're able to focus on quality and other components on each of their projects, you know, much more in line with what other capital project teams typically are managing.
1:50:28
And so that one year or one and a half year pulse process really benefited us to be able to right size the work so that our teams are giving the due attention to any project no matter how big or small.
Alexa Avilés
1:50:39
Thank you.
1:50:40
Thank you, chair.