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Chair Sanchez's closing remarks on agency coordination and bill follow-up
1:51:25
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Chair Pierina Ana Sanchez provides closing remarks, emphasizing the need for better coordination among agencies and expressing disappointment at NYCEM's absence. She also mentions follow-up actions on proposed legislation.
- Sanchez highlights the issue of residents being asked for the same information multiple times by different agencies
- She expresses disappointment that NYCEM (New York City Emergency Management) was not present at the hearing
- Sanchez mentions the need for follow-up on Intro 749, which proposes creating an office of residential displacement remediation
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:51:25
Thank you so much Councilmember Ressler and yeah just to reiterate, you know, what ends up happening especially in the bigger fires, as you know, is residents get asked the same question over and over and over.
1:51:37
They register with ARC, then they get asked their contact information from us, and then you know they go and register with EHS, right?
1:51:42
And so just like when we all do case management and case services, being able to minimize that and just be more efficient for folks who just potentially lost everything would go a long way.
1:51:55
So that concludes our questions.
1:51:57
I once again you know want to you know just express the disappointment that NYSEM isn't here.
1:52:04
Not to knock the great work that they do because they are on the ground when there are three alarm fires and above and many many other kinds of emergencies and when we call.
1:52:13
They also come and they help with coordination, But being able to to hear from them how they coordinate on the ground with all of the agencies if DEP, if there's asbestos suspected to be present, they get DEP involved.
1:52:27
They they just they do a lot of work on the ground and it's helpful to have that perspective.
1:52:32
It would have been helpful to have that perspective here.
1:52:34
And so on council member Gutierrez's bill seven forty nine creating the office of residential displacement remediation, that we didn't get a firm answer today on the administration's perspective, but I certainly will be following up along with council member Gutierrez to make sure that we understand where that function could live and should live, so that folks are able to get the best information possible when they've gone through this life changing event.
1:53:01
With that I