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Funding allocation for FDNY fire truck maintenance and replacement
1:09:26
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Deputy Commissioner Christoff provides a detailed breakdown of the FDNY's budget for fleet maintenance and replacement, covering both operating and capital expenses.
- The current OTPS (Other Than Personal Services) budget for fleet maintenance is $42.5 million, an increase from previous years.
- The capital budget includes $761 million for vehicles over an 11-year window from 2025 to 2035.
- Ambulance replacements are funded separately through the Health and Hospitals capital budget, totaling $462 million across the plan window.
Joann Ariola
1:09:26
Okay.
1:09:27
And how much funding is allocated in this current budget for fire truck maintenance replacement, and how does this compare to prior years?
Lizette Christoff
1:09:37
Yeah.
1:09:37
So we don't separate out the maintenance funding by fire trucks and ambulances.
1:09:44
So kind of combined to maintain our fleet, as the commissioner had mentioned earlier, we have about two forty staff.
1:09:52
And our OTPS budget right now is 42,500,000.0.
1:09:56
Some of the OTPS money that we got as part of the preliminary budget actually went towards that to increase the amount that we had available for things like auto parts.
1:10:07
That OTPS amount is a little bit higher than prior years, So we spent $31,000,000 in FY '22, dollars '30 '7 million in '23, and $39,000,000 in '24.
1:10:20
So our budget has gone up a little bit in '25.
1:10:23
It does go down again in '26.
1:10:26
So that's something that we're looking at and might need to be adjusted in the future.
1:10:31
In terms of sort of vehicle replacements, that happens through the capital budget.
1:10:38
Overall in the eleven year window from '25 to '35, we have seven sixty one million dollars funded for vehicles in our budget.
1:10:49
That includes $430,000,000 for frontline fire apparatus, 151,000,000 for supervisory specialty and support vehicles, and 181,000,000 for initial equipment on all of our vehicles.
1:11:02
Oddly enough, the capital funding for ambulances is not in our capital budget.
1:11:06
It is in the health and hospital's capital budget, but they are funded $462,000,000 across the plan window for our ambulance replacements.