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DSNY's strategies for reducing overtime expenses

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Council Member Abreu inquires about DSNY's strategies to reduce overtime without compromising essential services. Acting Commissioner Lojan explains some of the department's tactics for managing overtime costs.

DSNY uses existing personnel for garage utility jobs and sometimes postpones non-urgent tasks
Recycling routes are occasionally pushed to later shifts to avoid overtime
These strategies aim to balance cost-saving with maintaining essential services

Shaun Abreu

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Thank you.

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I also like to recognize council member Sandy Nurse who has joined us.

0:31:05

What steps is the department taking to reduce reliance on overtime without compromising essential services such as waste collections, snow removal, and street cleaning?

Javier Lojan

0:31:14

So a lot of times what we call as we call them as garage utility jobs where we have to transport equipment to a service facility for for that's under warranty.

0:31:28

We've tried to be more efficient in that and use existing personnel.

0:31:32

Sometimes we have to push those jobs to another day.

0:31:36

Another thing we do is when we have absences, we push some of the recycling routes to the later shift.

0:31:45

It's not something we want to you know do in practice generally, but that's a way that we try to keep the overtime down and you know not not go into overtime costs.

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