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Council Member Paladino addresses illegal truck parking and debris issues
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Council Member Vickie Paladino raises concerns about illegal truck parking and debris on a service road near the Throgzak Bridge in her district. She describes the problems caused by out-of-state trucks parking overnight, leaving messes, and affecting local residents and park users.
- Paladino has allocated funds for cameras to address the issue
- She requests increased enforcement, suggesting 3-4 times a week
- The council member emphasizes that this type of waste is beyond what supplemental cleaning services can handle
Vickie Paladino
1:50:37
Good afternoon and thank you very much for being here.
1:50:40
You know we are tremendous supporters of the Department of Sanitation over in District 19, so I wanna start off always by saying thank you
Javier Lojan
1:50:48
Thank you.
Vickie Paladino
1:50:48
To each and every one of you.
1:50:50
We have a, area I wanna let me start first with the August cameras.
1:50:58
Now I have allotted x amount of dollars for August cameras.
1:51:03
There's certain areas of my district, one in particular which is the service road that takes you over to the Throgzak Bridge.
1:51:10
We have illegal trucks.
1:51:13
We have trucks parked there.
1:51:15
They stay overnight.
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They track the trails.
1:51:17
They change their oil.
1:51:18
They leave their mess there, whether it be personal mess as well as debris from them working on their vehicles.
1:51:26
Now a lot of these guys are from out of state.
1:51:29
So, you know, I've consulted with the 109 because that's their precinct.
1:51:34
And yet the poor neighbors who back back their backyards are actually butt right up against this service road.
1:51:42
I wanna know what I could do to get more enforcement there possibly as many as three and four times a week because those neighbors that live there, and the people, the sports, it's right there by a park, called Harvey Park.
1:51:58
They should not have to go through this tremendous amount of, tractor trailers and the garbage and debris that's left there.
1:52:05
I'm telling you, my borough guy is amazing.
1:52:08
I I love my chief.
1:52:10
He does a great job.
1:52:12
And I also, you know, I fund sanitation into the tune of close to 200,000 out of my own pocket.
1:52:19
And I also give, CEO an additional hundred thousand and to keep my district really spotless.
1:52:28
But this is garbage that is rough picking up.
1:52:32
I mean, CEO cannot be picking up this type of waste.
1:52:35
Like I said, I just wanna know what we could do about that.
1:52:39
Working together.
Javier Lojan
1:52:40
I think, sometimes the what's been effective in my experience is, we have our permit inspection unit that can go out to an area
Vickie Paladino
1:52:48
Yes.
Javier Lojan
1:52:49
And and maybe do like a a focused blitz, so to speak, for a limited amount of time and see if that's effective so we can try that and see if that has any impact on it because I had similar concerns in other areas of Queens that
Vickie Paladino
1:53:01
They're all over?
1:53:01
Yeah.
1:53:02
I mean, the big thing is, what do you do?
1:53:04
The truck drivers stop, they get in their car and they drive away, they leave their trucks there overnight, they do their business and leave it, and then they go.
1:53:13
And sometimes the same tractor trailers are lined up.
1:53:16
You could be six, eight, 10 of them, and and yet they don't come back for two or three days.
1:53:23
So this is really this is one of the, bigger problems because I hear constantly from the people who live in that area and the sports now that it's gonna start to pick up in spring.