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Discussion on DOB violation categories and correction rates
1:41:20
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Council Member Pierina Ana Sanchez inquires about DOB violation categories, correction rates, and the agency's position on these rates. DOB representatives provide detailed statistics and explain their approach to violations.
- DOB has three violation categories: Class 1 (immediately hazardous), Class 2 (major hazards), and Class 3 (lesser violations).
- For Class 2 violations in 2023, about 46% were corrected within six months. In 2024 (partial year data), about 37.8% were corrected within six months.
- For Class 3 violations in 2023, about 42.83% were corrected within six months. In 2024 (partial year data), about 34.79% were corrected within six months.
- Class 1 violations, which must be corrected immediately, saw about 48% correction within six months in 2023 and 41.83% in 2024 (partial year data).
- DOB doesn't have a specific position on these rates but aims for quicker corrections while acknowledging the time needed for proper remediation.
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:41:20
Look ten years of working with HPD, I'm not trying to put it on your lap or your responsibility, but for both agencies it would be helpful if there was a way that we were confirming that the landlords and the owners are telling the residents what they need to know.
1:41:40
Okay.
1:41:45
In relation to Intro seven fifty, DOB you testified regarding your concerns about changing the amount of time that landlords have to correct violations for more than six months.
1:41:58
Can you can you tell us how many DOB issued violations remain uncorrected for more than six months and what enforcement actions are currently used by the agency and then I just have one more.
1:42:14
Sure
Jamell Isidor
1:42:16
A couple of things to unpack there but speaking of just the major and the lesser violations, we have three categories or three classifications for summonses.
1:42:28
One of them is class one which is immediately hazardous must be corrected forthwith.
1:42:32
So, the class two and class three are major hazards, some threat to public safety.
1:42:40
So, for 2023, we issued class two violations, 24,749, and of those that were not dismissed which are 22,000 eight hundred and 30 one approximately forty six percent were corrected within six months, and in 2024 which is still not over, so we're still counting that number.
1:43:05
29,367 were issued of those twenty seven thousand eight hundred and twenty six were not dismissed, and about thirty seven point eight percent have been corrected within the first six months, but we're still again we're not six months from December yet or November.
1:43:25
For class three violations issued in 2023, which are the the most low level types of charges.
1:43:33
We issued 2,076 summonses, eighteen forty were not dismissed, and approximately 42.83% were corrected within six months and in 2024 we issued 2,346, about 2,100 were not dismissed and approximately 34.79 were corrected within six months.
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:43:59
Did you you share the numbers for class one?
Jamell Isidor
1:44:02
Class ones, I do have that number.
1:44:05
This legislation would impact twos and threes, is why I focused on that, but for class ones,
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:44:12
let's see here.
1:44:14
Class ones are already required to be corrected within?
1:44:18
Within thirty days.
1:44:20
Or
Jamell Isidor
1:44:21
actually fourth width so immediately so it should really be second day but after thirty days respondents could be subject to an additional civil penalty for failure to correct.
1:44:33
For class ones in 2023, let me just make sure, total summonses without, total summonses excluding dismissals were at fourteen thousand two hundred and twenty nine and forty eight, about 48% were corrected within six months and for 2024 we have 17,926 excluding dismissals and about 41.83% were corrected within six months, which again still not done with the full count since we're still waiting for November, December.
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:45:17
I'm a lay person and but it seems to me like half, over all classes it sounds like consistently half are corrected within six months.
1:45:28
What is the agency's position on this rate?
Jamell Isidor
1:45:36
I don't think we have a position per se, we do what we can in order to get correction as quickly as possible, but whether that number is a success or not, ideally we would love it for it to be corrected earlier, but we understand that respondents do have to take some time in order to file the permits, get the right contractors, and file the certificate of correction and get it approved.
1:46:06
Okay.