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Council Member Shaun Abreu's opening remarks for the FY2026 DSNY budget hearing
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Council Member Shaun Abreu, chair of the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management, delivers opening remarks for the fiscal year 2026 executive budget hearing for the Department of Sanitation (DSNY). He outlines the department's budget, thanks sanitation workers for their efforts, and highlights key areas of focus for the committee.
- DSNY's FY2026 budget is $1.97 billion with 9,587 full-time positions
- The capital commitment plan for FY2025-2029 totals $1.6 billion
- Key topics for discussion include containerization of waste, commercial waste zones, lot cleaning, community composting, and various sanitation initiatives
Shaun Abreu
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Thank you chair Brandon.
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Good morning everyone and welcome to the fiscal twenty twenty six executive budget hearing for the committee on sanitation and solid waste management.
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My name is Sean O'Bradyou and I'm the chair of the committee.
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This afternoon we will be discussing the department's 1,970,000,000.00 fiscal 20 20 6 budget as presented in the executive financial plan and the executive capital commitment plan for DSNY for fiscal twenty twenty five to 2029 which totals 1,600,000,000.0.
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I would like to begin by thanking members of the sanitation department for their hard work over the past year.
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The frontline responses of sanitation workers have been on full display throughout the year.
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And because of their actions our city is a cleaner place.
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The sanitation department members are known as New York's strongest for a reason and I believe that nickname is aptly given.
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The sanitation department's fiscal twenty twenty six budget totals 1,970,000,000.00 with 9,587 full time positions.
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The fiscal twenty twenty six budget as presented in the executive financial plan is 25,100,000.0 more than the fiscal twenty twenty five budget at adoption.
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Budget actions in the executive plan increased DSNY's budget by $33,100,000 in fiscal twenty twenty five and forty point five million dollars in fiscal twenty twenty six compared to the preliminary plan.
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The plan includes an additional $36,100,000 for higher than projected PS and OTPS spending across multiple program areas and litter basket service.
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The sanitation department's fiscal twenty twenty five twenty twenty nine capital commitment plan totals 1,600,000,000.0 and supports 154 distinct capital projects.
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The committee has held oversight hearings on various topics over the past year about the city's containerization of refuse and organic waste and commercial waste zones.
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The committee would like to revisit these items and others including lot cleaning which was provided a partial restoration of the plan, community composting, and New York City bins reimbursement.
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I would also like to discuss various restorations to the mayor's Get Stuff Clean initiatives such as TNT and Parks Perimeter Cleaning.
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It is essential that the budget that we adopt this year is transparent, accountable and reflective of the priorities and interests of the council and the people we represent.
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As the chair of this committee, I will continue to push for accountability and accuracy and ensure that the budget reflects the needs and interests of the city.
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This hearing is a vital part of this process and I expect DSNY will be responsive to the questions and concerns of council members.
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I look forward to an active engagement with the administration over the next month really to ensure that fiscal twenty twenty six adopted budget meets the goals the council has set out.
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I'd like to thank our committee staff for their hard work, financial analysts Tanveer Singh, unit head Alia Ali, committee counsel Morgan Barrett, policy analyst Ricky Challa and my chief of staff Jalisa Quickley.
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I'd like to welcome and thank commissioner Javier Lojan, our sanitation workers and department civilian staff for the work that they do.
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I'm looking forward to hearing from the commissioner.
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The committee council will now swear you in.