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Small businesses more likely to need assignment than larger ones

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Council Member Abreu inquires whether small businesses are more likely to need assignment compared to larger ones. DSNY officials confirm this observation and discuss the implications.

  • Smaller businesses were more likely to receive assignments from the department
  • Larger, more sophisticated businesses (e.g., CVS, McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts) were less likely to need assignment
  • DSNY agrees to provide more detailed data on the margin of difference between small and large businesses needing assignment
Shaun Abreu
0:56:59
Okay.
0:56:59
Yep.
0:56:59
Alright.
0:57:00
That's that's that's a lot better.
0:57:01
Provide some color here.
0:57:04
Did you find that and this gets at you're really outreach in the future.
0:57:10
Are small customers more likely to need assignment than larger ones?
Frank Marshall
0:57:18
Yeah.
0:57:19
So it was it was I mean as you mentioned, yes.
0:57:22
So smaller quarters I'm sorry, smaller businesses were more likely to to receive an assignment.
Shaun Abreu
0:57:29
Were more likely to?
Frank Marshall
0:57:30
To receive an assignment from the department.
0:57:32
So like
Shaun Abreu
0:57:32
Got it.
Frank Marshall
0:57:32
CVS, McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts, they are more sophisticated but the smaller Carter's, sorry the smaller customers were more likely to receive an assignment.
Shaun Abreu
0:57:43
Do you have any idea by like by what margin like and obviously this all depends on how what we define a big business versus small business.
0:57:51
But I would like to understand like it's an eightytwenty, ninetyten, sixtyforty in terms of assignments.
Frank Marshall
0:58:00
We can we could look into that and get back to you.
Shaun Abreu
0:58:03
That'll be very helpful because I think that I mean I'm my guess is that it's a pretty big margin.
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