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Proposal to make NYPD vehicles capital eligible to support electrification efforts
1:26:33
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Council Member Restler and Deputy Commissioner Kerman discuss the potential for making NYPD vehicles capital eligible to support the city's electrification efforts.
- Average cost of an NYPD vehicle is around $53,938, including necessary outfitting
- Discussion on why these specialized vehicles should be capital eligible, similar to fire engines and sanitation equipment
- Electrifying police vehicles would help meet overall fleet electrification goals
- Multiple stakeholders, including DCAS, NYPD, and the City Controller, support this change
- Main obstacle appears to be the budget office
Lincoln Restler
1:26:33
So my notes are that the average cost of an NYPD vehicle are $53,938 Is that consistent with your understanding?
Keith Kerman
1:26:42
I wasn't prepared to answer that question, but sounds right.
Lincoln Restler
1:26:47
Ballpark is.
Keith Kerman
1:26:47
You could certainly find that.
Lincoln Restler
1:26:48
Would that include outfitting or would that just be the vehicle itself?
Keith Kerman
1:26:51
That sounds like an outfitting cost.
1:26:54
There's about $12,000 of outfitting that can go into an NYPD vehicle.
1:26:58
You have your lights and sirens here and And
Lincoln Restler
1:27:03
those lights and sirens, the technology, all of that totally essential to the vehicle.
1:27:08
NYPD can't operate, you can't put an officer in that vehicle without it.
1:27:11
Former you can help me here, right?
1:27:13
I'm getting a nod from the commissioner.
Keith Kerman
1:27:14
We also remember all those vehicles are being bulletproofed and set up with
Vincent Ignizio
1:27:19
armor
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1:27:19
followed by
Vincent Ignizio
1:27:19
None
Lincoln Restler
1:27:21
of us would ever send a police officer out in any other type of vehicle in good conscience.
1:27:26
So we're north of the $50,000 number.
1:27:29
Why, for sake, is that not capably eligible?
Keith Kerman
1:27:34
Well, as we've discussed before, we are working with OMB and the police department on that very proposal.
1:27:41
And so we agree and we appreciate your support that police cars, not just for NYPD but for other agencies, law enforcement vehicles, are specialized equipment just like fire engines, just like sanitation equipment and should be capital eligible.
1:27:57
That would really help our cause plus the electric upfit will also be 10,000 to 15,000.
1:28:02
So as you electrify those, we're working now with Ford and others on a plug in hybrid and all electric options so that we can get plugs on these cars.
1:28:12
So we are absolutely supportive of that and and appreciate your assistance.
Lincoln Restler
1:28:17
I I just Councilmember Ariola, myself, this is a priority for both of us.
1:28:22
We've raised it with the commissioner's office and the police department.
1:28:24
I know that they believe that this is a priority as well.
1:28:27
I know this is a priority for Decas if I can say that.
1:28:30
So and I've spoken to the controller and his team.
1:28:32
It's a priority for them too.
1:28:34
Seems like everybody agrees except for the budget office over on Greenwich Street.
1:28:38
So if we could all try to work together to get them to see that this is so obviously in the benefit of us achieving our electrification goals and for us to be able to much more smartly manage the fleet, this feels like the most obvious thing in the world, and I would love for us to achieve it this fiscal year.
1:28:54
Can we work together on
Keith Kerman
1:28:55
that?
1:28:56
Absolutely.
Lincoln Restler
1:28:56
Wonderful.