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Support for veteran vendors and permit fees
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Commissioner James Hendon explains the Department of Veterans Services' role in assisting and informing veteran vendors about permit fees and relevant agencies. The department focuses on connecting vendors with the appropriate city agencies and resources.
- DVS provides information and assistance to veteran vendors through nyc.gov/vetvendors
- The department helps connect vendors with relevant agencies such as the Department of Sanitation, Parks, Health, and Consumer Workforce Protection
- There's a suggestion to explore the creation of a business council specific to veteran street vendors
Vickie Paladino
0:51:32
I just wanna touch, if I may, on some of the vendor permit fees and all of that.
0:51:39
What's going on with some of our vendors?
0:51:41
Can you bring me up to speed a little bit on that?
James Hendon
0:51:44
For us, I thank you for that question.
0:51:46
With the vendors it goes back to assistant informed.
0:51:49
So for us it's making sure the vendors know if they have needs from certain agencies where to go and that's why we put that on nyc.gov/vetvendors.
0:51:55
We're not in the weeds in certain ways, but if a vendor says, hey, you know, I have a need, who do go to at the Department of Sanitation, who I go to at parks, who I go to at the Department of Health or at the Department of Consumer Workforce Protection.
0:52:06
So for us, our main role there is to tie them in to those things and we try to bring more of our vendors in with the veteran business leadership association.
0:52:13
It's one the things I was recommending if an opportunity comes for us to we think that there's a there's an opportunity there in having, I guess, business council specific to veteran street vendors and that's something we think is an opportunity that we'd like to explore between us and between councils as far as something.
0:52:28
But for us, it's a lot of it is assisted informed mountain council member, and we put that information on nyc.gov/vetvendors.