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DSNY's response to non-awardee carting companies' information requests
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Council Member Shaun Abreu raises concerns about DSNY's responsiveness to non-awardee carting companies requesting information about Commercial Waste Zones implementation. Acting Commissioner Javier Lojan explains DSNY's approach and reasons for limited communication.
- Some non-awardee companies have reported that DSNY hasn't been responsive to their information requests
- DSNY was cautious about providing information before announcing the full implementation schedule
- The department wanted to avoid premature information leading to hasty business decisions by non-awardees
- With the full schedule now announced, DSNY commits to reaching out to all carting companies, both awardees and non-awardees
Shaun Abreu
0:36:12
What has been DSNY's response to non awardee carding companies that have requested information from DSNY about commercial way zones implementation.
0:36:21
We've been getting a lot of you know messages from non awardees you know saying that DSNY hasn't been responsive.
0:36:29
Obviously as new zones come online that's gonna impact their businesses or even their ability to you know consolidate with others.
0:36:38
What is your response to that?
Javier Lojan
0:36:40
So I think part of the part of the challenge with that was we didn't announce the full schedule.
0:36:49
So I think that was one of the things that we didn't want to prematurely give to any of the awardees or non awardees because the last thing we wanted to do was give a non awardee information and then they make assumptions on timeline and then they're you know, they're laying off or getting rid of like operators scaling down operations, so we didn't want that.
0:37:09
But now that we have committed to rolling out the Bronx, the full schedule could be completed by the end of twenty twenty seven, we will, make every effort and and and have commitment to to reach out to all of them.