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Impact of containerization law on supplemental cleaning organizations
1:23:32
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Council Member Banks inquires about the fiscal impact of the city's containerization law on small organizations providing supplemental cleaning services. He expresses concern about these organizations potentially ceasing operations due to compliance costs.
- Commissioner Lojan explains that DSNY conducts site visits to assess actual needs and explore alternative methods.
- The discussion highlights the potential gap in services that may occur in high-need districts if supplemental cleaning organizations cannot comply with the new regulations.
Chris Banks
1:23:32
With the implementation of the city's containerization law requiring organizations, including those that provide supplemental cleaning, to purchase and maintain complaint complaint maintain complaint containers, what fiscal considerations, if any, were made for small organizations that may not have the capacity to absorb these added costs?
1:23:58
And the organizations that provide these supplemental cleaning, obviously, will will will force them to cease operations to comply with these particular laws.
1:24:12
What contingency plans does the the department have to prevent these services, these gaps that may come about in these high needed districts where the supplemental services are needed badly.
1:24:28
And also too, when it comes to these organizations like ACE and Center for the Employment of Opportunities, do you see any value in these organizations?
Javier Lojan
1:24:45
Okay.
1:24:46
Me see if I get the so the first question was the financial impact.
1:24:49
Correct.
1:24:51
So yeah.
1:24:51
I think that's part of our conversations with them.
1:24:55
And then once we set up the site visits, we work with them on seeing what their actual need is.
1:25:04
I think sometimes when we do the site visits, we find areas where maybe they don't need as much of the containers as they need or sometimes they don't realize about the tilt trucks or any other methods that we have.
1:25:19
So I think that's one area where I think we work with them.
Chris Banks
1:25:22
Do you see value in these organizations that provide these supplemental services to especially to communities like mine?