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Council Member Julie Won questions DOT on daylighting implementation costs
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Council Member Julie Won questions DOT representatives about the costs and staffing requirements for implementing hardened daylighting across New York City. She challenges the DOT's cost estimates and asks for clarification on various aspects of the implementation process.
- Won questions the need for additional $2 million in staffing costs on top of the estimated $10,000 per intersection.
- She inquires about potential cost-sharing with DEP for rain garden implementations.
- Won asks about the timeline for implementing 1,000 daylit locations per year and ways to speed up the process.
Julie Won
1:40:03
But I'm gonna move on to budget since we're running out of time.
1:40:06
DOT has informed my office that it estimates that it costs $10,000 per hardened daylight location for labor and materials, but to have capacity to handle a thousand hardened locations per year, DOT would likely need 20 additional staff totaling about $2,000,000 for staffing, a total of $12,000,000 to comply with this law.
1:40:25
If the cost of labor and materials is already included in your $10,000 per intersection estimate, why do you need an extra $2,000,000 for staff on top of the cost of 1,000 intersections?
1:40:35
Does labour get more expensive per intersection when DOT scales up?
1:40:39
For intersections that are daylit using rain gardens, is the cost and staff time for from DEP subtracted from your estimate?
1:40:48
And what is the fastest that DOT could implement a thousand daylit locations per year?
1:40:52
What could speed up this timeline?
Eric Beaton
1:40:56
So we're looking for just the 2,000,000 number, but the 10,000 number, yeah, that's a very round number rule of
Gale A. Brewer
1:41:03
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Eric Beaton
1:41:03
estimate to get at things like the cost of the blocks and the day to day cost of the labor to put them out there.
1:41:11
When we put together a full budget need, have to think about both the purchase and the maintenance of vehicles, the space and the maintenance of space, the cost of gas, the cost of needing to go out and move the materials every time the street gets repaved and then put them back.
1:41:26
So there's the cost of doing it once and then there's the cost of maintaining it over a long period of time.
1:41:32
And we're to we're happy to discuss the numbers in more detail, but that may be where the difference is.
Julie Won
1:41:37
Okay.
1:41:37
It sounds like it's unclear.
1:41:39
It's not really set in stone.
1:41:40
But I will yield my time so that we can move on to hearing testimonies from all these people behind you.