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Exploring City Council funding opportunities for FDNY projects
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Council Member Marmorato inquires about ways the City Council can provide funding assistance to FDNY. Commissioner Tucker expresses gratitude and discusses potential projects that could benefit from council support.
- The City Council has been generous with funding support for FDNY
- Smaller projects like firehouse door replacements are appreciated
- The department recently received $3.5 million from the Queens Borough President for 15 response vehicles
- Commissioner Tucker offers to provide a list of specific projects for potential funding in Marmorato's district
Kristy Marmorato
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All right.
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Chair, can I just have two more questions?
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Absolutely.
0:49:54
Okay.
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What can my office as City Council provide funding for your officers?
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I know that we try to help with structural at the firehouses.
0:50:04
We try to help with the upgrades, but are there anything that we can use our discretionary funding to assist with the fire officers?
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I don't know if it's like if we're allowed to do like I know you guys have washer and dryers that break very Like, is there anything that you could think of off the top of your head that we can help fund?
Robert Tucker
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Sure.
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What I say first of all is thank you.
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The entire council has been incredibly generous.
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We will ask you for help now.
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There are things that the council can help with.
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They're not large major projects but council member Schulman called me the other day and asked me if she could replace the door of a firehouse in her district.
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That's incredibly generous and we appreciate that.
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And even though it doesn't, when we're talking about almost $3,000,000,000 budget, that's a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
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It's needle moving to me and I'm deeply grateful that you would ask.
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We have projects.
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We were in Queens the other day with the borough president.
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The chair was there, so was council member Schulman.
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I made a presentation and left with $3,500,000 of the borough president's generosity to buy 15 response vehicles for Queens County.
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If I knew I could go to any borough which I go to regularly anyway and come home with a duffel bag full of money like that for projects that are really lifesaving I would be there.
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So can I come back to you with some individual projects and perhaps
Lincoln Restler
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her district?
0:52:08
Yeah.
0:52:08
Great.