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Council Member Menin asks about structural reforms for street vending
2:24:32
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Council Member Julie Menin asks representatives from the Meatpacking District and the National Supermarket Association about their recommended structural reforms for street vending. The representatives discuss enforcement challenges and propose specific measures to improve the current system.
- Meatpacking District representative calls for clearer enforcement guidelines and agency directives
- National Supermarket Association suggests expanding enforcement resources, setting clear requirements, and creating a mayor's office of street vending
Julie Menin
2:24:32
Okay.
2:24:33
Thank you very much for your testimony.
2:24:34
I do have a question.
2:24:35
I know for the and just in looking at the written testimony, the Meatpacking District, the National Supermarket Association, both of you are recommending particular structural reforms.
2:24:47
Could you talk for a minute about what those reforms are that you urge the city to implement?
Evan Sweet
2:24:53
Sure.
2:24:54
From my experience directing the operations in the Meat Packing District, can say that even working with city agency partners to enforce issues that we see as it relates to time, place and manner are very difficult, if not impossible, to undertake.
2:25:07
We think that there needs to be substantive changes to the way that enforcement is done or in clarity from perhaps the council or from the city itself to direct different agencies on how to undertake enforcement and what actions are clearly enforceable or not enforceable to undertake.
Nelson Eusebio
2:25:24
Yes.
2:25:26
We believe expanding enforcement resources, allocate $10,000,000 to hire additional 118 DSNY enforcement agents, two per community board to ensure educated year round proactive oversight, set clear enforceable requirements.
2:25:44
We ask for a 50 foot buffer from the front of our stores, decriminalized violations.
2:25:50
We feel people shouldn't be criminalized because they're out there vending, Create a mayor's office of street vending.
2:25:56
We support the intro, intro four zero eight, but we advocate to centralize or coordinate of many agencies involved in street vending.
2:26:03
With these measures, we believe we can support this bill.