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DOB representatives explain procedures for enforcing repairs after fires
1:05:54
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Council Member Áviles questions DOB representatives about their procedures for ensuring landlords make repairs after fires, and DOB officials explain their enforcement process.
- Council Member asks about guardrails and notification procedures
- DOB Deputy Commissioner Yigal Shemash outlines the process of issuing orders and monitoring compliance
- Assistant Commissioner Jamell Isidor adds information about enforcement actions for non-compliant owners
Alexa Áviles
1:05:54
I'll follow-up with Thank you.
1:05:56
In terms of DOB, what kind of guardrails are, I'm sorry.
1:06:00
I'm looking at you, but I meant you.
1:06:03
Both of y'all.
1:06:04
What kind of guardrails are you putting in place to ensure landlords are actually responding and making good faith efforts?
1:06:12
And this notion of notification is a serious one.
1:06:15
People get dispersed.
1:06:16
They move out of emergency housing.
1:06:19
They're couch surfing and never get notified that they return to their places.
1:06:25
So if you could talk to me about notification and also what guardrails DOB is putting into place.
Yigal Shemash
1:06:30
In terms of follow-up after after a fire, we'll we will issue commissioners' orders or DOB violations with specific time frames on when those repairs need to be implemented, when they need to hire a registered design professional or RDP, when do they need to submit the applications to us for the repairs, time frames on the permits, and then time frame for the repairs.
1:06:56
Specifically, I know we're referencing 2910 Wallace.
1:07:00
We we, implemented those DOB orders.
1:07:04
The owner hired their own security, hired their own professionals.
1:07:10
We were there for weeks at a time, making sure that the owner was in good faith, doing what they could to get the tenants back in to retrieve belongings.
1:07:22
We continue working with the owners professionals and making sure that the applications are meeting our requirements and having those conversations and making sure that the work is proceeding per the commissioner's orders that we issued.
Jamell Isidor
1:07:39
And I'll add just similar to HPD, if we do not receive any contact from such owners after DOB violation is or DOB order is sent, then we could follow-up with enforcement action whether that be an oath violation for failure to comply, a criminal court summons, or in conjunction with the law department some sort of affirmative litigation.