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DSNY explains decision to pause fines and focus on education
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Acting Commissioner Javier Lojan explains DSNY's decision to pause fines for buildings under 30 units and focus on education and outreach. He emphasizes the importance of warnings and interactions with residents to ensure program success.
- DSNY issued over 30,000 warnings prior to April 1, which had a positive impact
- The department plans to continue issuing written warnings and tracking them
- DSNY will leverage existing resources, including sanitation supervisors, to focus on education and outreach
- Fines will still be issued for buildings with 30+ units after four warnings
Javier Lojan
0:17:27
Sure.
0:17:28
So as you know that the outreach is the most important part of any program and we supported the decision to pause the fines and continue and focus on education and outreach for buildings under 30 units.
0:17:47
One of the things I I feel good about is that I think that the warning period prior to the actual enforcement period, We had focused on warnings right prior to April 1 date.
0:18:01
We issued over 30,000 warnings and we felt that that had a really good impact.
0:18:05
So I think that that approach taking that now with the pause, will still have a meaningful impact.
0:18:11
And I think we're gonna take a little bit of a different approach where we're gonna focus more on the same warnings.
0:18:17
The residents will still get warnings.
0:18:19
And the warnings are not just verbal warnings, they're written warnings which we track.
0:18:24
The interaction piece is gonna be one of the things we focus more on as well.
0:18:27
So we have two hundred and thirty two secondtions across the city.
0:18:31
Right?
0:18:31
They've broken up, you know, 59 districts, 202 secondtions.
0:18:35
Each of those sections usually get a sanitation supervisor during the day.
0:18:40
Our plan is to have them, the existing resources, focus on the warnings and the interactions with all the customers, all the residents in across five boroughs that, you know, in the one to 29 unit buildings.
0:18:54
On the 30 unit plus buildings, we still have the ability to issue summonses after four warnings.
0:19:01
So but the good thing about one of the things we did with with this program, as you know, chair, is we created a new service request through 311 where any resident can call and complain about their building either not participating in in in the program So that right as of this date, we've received over a thousand of those complaints and those are the areas that we will focus on.
0:19:24
I think that we're still going to be successful with with the with the program.
0:19:28
It's the service is not going to stop and we're just gonna continue to do outreach.