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Clarification on service providers for Local Law 97
4:47:56
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Council Member Sanchez seeks clarification on the term 'service providers' in the context of Local Law 97 implementation. Deputy Commissioner Popa explains the role of these entities in assisting building owners with compliance.
- Service providers include Registered Design Professionals (RDPs) and retro commissioning agents hired by building owners to conduct work and file reports.
- The DOB has been working closely with these providers, who often have numerous clients in the city, to ensure smooth implementation of the law.
- The department has shown flexibility in adjusting requirements based on feedback from service providers and building owners.
Pierina Sanchez
4:47:56
Just two quick clarifying questions.
4:47:59
When you say service providers, what kind of entities are you referring to?
Laura Popa
4:48:03
Right, so the entities that the building owners hire to do the work, the RDPs, and to file the reports.
4:48:10
There are several different people who work together in that.
4:48:13
The reports need to be signed off by an RDP, at least the three twenty reports do, a registered design professional.
4:48:19
The three twenty one reports can be a retro commissioning agent or an RDP.
4:48:26
And then these service providers that we've been working with have thousands of clients in the city, so we are comfortable that we're working with the people who have the most clients and getting them comfortable with how to file the report, educating them on that.
4:48:39
Also, though we beta tested the reporting portal with them so we could get feedback and make it better, and we continue to do that.
4:48:48
So recently there had been a requirement that in order to get an extension you had to have hired someone by a certain date, and we saw that that wasn't working because some building owners hadn't hired someone by that date, but we still wanted them to get the extension if they needed it.
4:49:03
So we issued a service notice that changed that because of all the feedback we were receiving from both the service providers and the building owners.
4:49:11
So we're trying to be nimble.