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Business customer data for Queens Central commercial waste zone
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Council Member Shaun Abreu inquires about the number of businesses identified as customers of awardees in the Queens Central commercial waste zone. DSNY Acting Commissioner Javier Lojan provides data on the total number of businesses and those that were existing customers of awardees.
- Total businesses identified in the zone: 6,400
- Existing customers of awardees: 3,300
- The numbers aligned with DSNY's pre-implementation projections
Shaun Abreu
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I'm now gonna now take a deeper dive into Queen Central before I have my colleagues ask some questions.
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How many businesses did DSNY identify as being a customer of awardees in the Queen Central commercial waste zone?
Javier Lojan
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So we relied on the BIC registry which was about 6,400 businesses in the zone.
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And then about out of those 6,400 about 3,300 of those being existing customers of awardees in Queen Central.
Shaun Abreu
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They're you're saying about?
Javier Lojan
0:49:47
So about 6,400 of them we identified of having business in Queen Central.
Shaun Abreu
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Okay.
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And 3,300 of them
Javier Lojan
0:49:57
Were had already were existing customers with the awardees.
Shaun Abreu
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Got it.
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So there were about another 3,000 or so new relationships?
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Correct.
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Okay.
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How did this differ from pre implementation projections?
Javier Lojan
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There really wasn't much of a differ a difference it was pretty much what we expected.
Shaun Abreu
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Okay.
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What was the expectation then?
Javier Lojan
0:50:23
You mean the expectation of what we were going to encounter there?
Shaun Abreu
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In terms of customers, how many businesses were identified as being a customer of awardees that number?
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Was it this what you were predicting to be that number was it about the same?
Javier Lojan
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Yeah it was it was about the same correct.