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Efforts to remove scaffolding from city-managed buildings
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Council Member Restler inquires about DCAS's efforts to remove scaffolding from city-owned buildings, referencing Mayor Adams' priority on this issue. Commissioner Molina provides an update on the agency's progress and current status of scaffolding on DCAS-managed buildings.
- DCAS has removed scaffolding from eight sites
- 11 DCAS-managed buildings still have scaffolding, with active work on four of these sites
- Discussion of the 360 Adams Courthouse scaffolding removal project, which has been up for over 18 years
- Clarification that some scaffolding projects, like the 360 Adams Courthouse, are managed by other agencies such as DDC
- Commissioner Molina commits to following up with DDC on the timeline for the courthouse scaffolding removal
Lincoln Restler
1:13:53
Okay.
1:13:54
I have a few questions on city managed buildings.
1:13:58
I'll start with a topic that's a favorite for many in the council which is scaffolding.
1:14:03
Mayor Adams, you know, has made it a whole big thing about how big a priority it is to to get scaffolding down, declaring it bad public policy, bad for public safety, etcetera.
1:14:14
Yet of course the city is responsible for many many buildings that have had scaffolding up for many many years on end.
1:14:20
What is DCAS doing to get scaffolding down from city owned buildings?
1:14:23
How many city owned buildings have had scaffolding up for more than five years?
1:14:27
How many city owned buildings have had scaffolding up for more than ten years?
1:14:30
Does DCAST have a plan to eliminate all, you know, buildings that have had scaffolding up for over, I don't know, twelve months?
Louis Molina
1:14:36
So let me me talk about the the city buildings that DCAST manages.
1:14:41
I'm happy to share that we have removed scaffolding from eight sites.
Lincoln Restler
1:14:45
Okay.
Louis Molina
1:14:45
One of those eight sites, we not only removed the scaffolding but we put up net netting because as 8811 that's something Boulevard, we did netting and that was just better for the cosmetics of the neighborhood in Queens.
1:14:57
We have 11 buildings up that still have scaffolding, and we are working we four of those 11, we're actively working on those sites with an effort to bring that scaffolding down.
1:15:07
We can send you a list of those 11.
Lincoln Restler
1:15:10
So there are only 11 city managed buildings that have scaffolding up
Louis Molina
1:15:12
That are managed by DCAS that have scaffolding.
1:15:15
So there may be other city buildings that are managed by other agencies directly and not DCAS that possibly could have scaffolding up.
Lincoln Restler
1:15:23
Okay.
1:15:23
I have, you know, celebrated the fact that 360 Adams Courthouse and Kings County Courthouse is finally gonna begin work later this summer I believe for scaffolding to begin to come down.
1:15:37
There's been scaffolding up there for over eighteen years.
1:15:39
So there are kids graduating from high school this year that are younger than the scaffolding at this courthouse which is in Columbus Park.
1:15:46
Some people here today shop at the farmer's market there and are frustrated by the blight that we have on that courthouse.
1:15:53
Can you commit that the timeline for when that work is gonna begin and that DeGas is gonna be removing the scaffolding in sections as the facade and roof
Louis Molina
1:15:59
work believe that work is primarily done by DDC.
1:16:03
Yes.
1:16:04
Done by DDC.
1:16:05
So we'll confer with DDC to make sure they're on schedule.