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Councilmember Marmorato questions DSNY on Local Law 67 implementation and vendor enforcement

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Councilmember Kristy Marmorato inquires about the implementation of Local Law 67 regarding fines for sanitation violations and the status of vendor enforcement in her district. Acting Commissioner Javier Lojan responds to her questions, explaining the current state of these initiatives and the department's plans.

Local Law 67 has been fully implemented, but results are still pending due to the adjudication process.
There are no plans to increase the number of sanitation enforcement officers for vendor enforcement in FY2026.
Marmorato expresses disappointment with the current level of vendor enforcement and requests further discussion on the matter.

Kristy Marmorato

1:45:14

Thank you, chair, and thank you commissioner and the team for our partnership throughout the years.

1:45:20

I just wanna follow-up with the question I had last time about Intro 97 that became Local Law 67.

1:45:28

It's about the, you know, the violators, super fines for people for student line violations.

1:45:35

I believe last time you said that is being issued, that this has been in effect.

1:45:40

However, I have is there still any updates on numbers in my district because I feel and I don't think I'm the only district feeling this way that a lot of, frankly, lot of businesses, I don't really see much improvement in what's going on.

1:45:55

So I really would appreciate an update on those numbers.

Javier Lojan

1:45:58

Yeah.

1:45:59

It has been fully implemented.

1:46:01

One of the things that with that law is that we have to wait for them to be adjudicated in order for the escalator to come into play, so I think, it would take some time to actually have what those numbers are.

1:46:13

But it has been fully implemented, and it's one of the things that we are looking at as far as the results it yields in all the community districts.

Kristy Marmorato

1:46:21

Okay.

1:46:22

Thank you.

1:46:22

And my second question is about vendor enforcement, which I think you all know it's my top priority in my district.

1:46:29

I know there's only 40 to 45 sanitation enforcement officers for citywide.

1:46:35

Is there any plans to increase this in FY twenty six?

Javier Lojan

1:46:40

No.

1:46:41

Right now, that's the amount I think we've reached the saturation point as far as positions.

1:46:50

I think we'd be happy to work with you on on seeing what that number would be, but I think right now there is no plans to increase that headcount.

Kristy Marmorato

1:46:57

Well, I I would speak for myself.

1:46:58

I I think that's rather unfortunate because I think you know myself including many others have you know expressed a dissatisfaction I guess with the vendor enforcement.

1:47:08

But yes I would like to talk to you more about vendor enforcement in my district.

1:47:11

Thank you.

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