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Assessment of FDNY firehouses needing immediate repair
1:14:02
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Council Member Ariola inquires about the number of firehouses needing immediate repair and associated cost estimates. FDNY officials indicate they need to follow up with specific information.
- The FDNY maintains information on outstanding work orders and priorities for replacements and reconstruction projects.
- Council Member Ariola notes frequent issues in firehouses such as leaks and plumbing problems.
- The council member requests information on the timeline between when a structural complaint is made and when it gets fixed.
Joann Ariola
1:14:02
I appreciate your answer.
1:14:03
I'd like to mention that we've been joined by Councilmember Feliz.
1:14:08
Just before I council member Feliz has a question, but I have just one follow-up here.
1:14:14
How many fire firehouses and stations would you say are in need of immediate repair, and do you have cost estimates?
Robert Tucker
1:14:24
Commissioner Kristoff.
Lizette Christoff
1:14:27
I think we would have to follow-up on that.
1:14:29
I mean we do have information on outstanding work orders at various firehouses and what we know to be our priorities for replacements and reconstruction projects, which we generally work down in priority order given the funding that we have available.
1:14:48
But we can follow-up with specifics.
Joann Ariola
1:14:50
That would be great because oftentimes, and I visit the firehouses often I do see they're in desperate need of rooms and they have leaks in their changing rooms and in the locker rooms and in the showers, borders running when it shouldn't.
1:15:05
And we were able to mitigate a lot of those issues only because our office got involved.
1:15:11
So what is the timeline from when a complaint is made about an issue structurally to when it gets fixed?
1:15:17
If you don't have that you can get back to me with that as well.
1:15:20
You can follow-up with that.
1:15:22
I now yield to council member Feliz.