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Council Member Nurse's criticism of the composting enforcement pause
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Council Member Sandy Nurse expresses her disagreement with DSNY's decision to pause composting enforcement, calling it arbitrary and poorly reasoned. She highlights inconsistencies in DSNY's approach to enforcement across different initiatives.
- Nurse points out that DSNY has quickly enforced other new rules
- She emphasizes that the composting law was carefully negotiated and structured
- Nurse suggests that enforcement is necessary because not everyone voluntarily complies with regulations
Sandy Nurse
1:06:15
Okay.
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So to me this feels a little bit like an arbitrary decision because DSNY has made decisions over the last two years about what it can enforce quickly and what it can't.
1:06:29
The law that the organics the curbside organics law took a long time to negotiate.
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It wasn't the first time that it was brought before the agency.
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We completely retailored it and restructured it to fit the former commissioner's vision, including in a very extensive period of just warnings.
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So how is it that you have a rationale that you had to stop enforcement for that, but you could enforce everything else very quickly.
1:07:00
Buying new trash cans that allegedly are rat proof, stopping the sub, you know, enforcement on supplemental cleaning that they now have to put their bags into bins.
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A bunch of other things that you all have rolled out and enforced.
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So It just feels like it's poor reasoning.
Javier Lojan
1:07:19
So council member, is is you mentioned the bid rule which we did the same thing.
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We extended the
Sandy Nurse
1:07:29
By how long?
Javier Lojan
1:07:29
By six months.
Sandy Nurse
1:07:31
Okay.
1:07:31
And you have an enforcement date, right?
Javier Lojan
1:07:33
Right now, yes.
Sandy Nurse
1:07:34
Right.
1:07:35
And you all intend to enforce that, right?
Javier Lojan
1:07:37
Well, I don't want write off any I What I mentioned in one
Sandy Nurse
1:07:39
of previous sessions never really want tickets but people People have millions and millions of people here in this city.
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Right.
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There are carrots and there are sticks.
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We have sticks because people don't always do the right thing.
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You saw that when you put out the enforcement Mhmm.
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People were participating in greater numbers.
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We also had the headlines.
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Mhmm.
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So great that you might need to open up new sites.
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I just I just find it to be trying to affect us with poor reason.
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I just I don't I reject it, but I'll move on.