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DSNY staffing and budget for composting operations
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Council Member Abreu inquires about DSNY staffing for issuing composting fines and the budget for composting operations.
- Supervisors assigned to 232 sections across the city are responsible for issuing warnings, outreach, and fines
- Total PS baseline budget for organics is approximately $33.4 million
- Budget covers approximately 299 uniform positions
- Organics processing expenses through January are $5.5 million
Shaun Abreu
0:44:38
Who within DSNY is tasked with issuing these fines?
0:44:46
headcount for this responsibility as well?
0:44:48
My apologies.
0:45:14
What is the PS and OTPS budget relating to composting operations?
0:45:30
What is the actual spending to date this year?
Javier Lojan
0:44:44
So we have And what's the
0:44:49
Yep.
0:44:49
So we have supervisors that are scheduled, assigned daily to sectors.
0:44:57
So there's, you know, two thirty two secondtions across the city.
0:45:01
About two zero three of them are assigned daily.
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And those are the supervisors that are tasked to issue these warnings, the outreach, and then ultimately fines for 30 plus unit buildings.
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So the total PS baseline budget for organics is approximately $33,400,000 and that's covering approximately two ninety nine uniform positions.
Joseph Antonelli
0:45:36
Sure.
0:45:37
So the PS spending is rolled up in our entire PS budget because it's just a part of collection operations.
0:45:43
So we don't track organic spending on PS separately.
0:45:46
However, in terms of processing, the organics processing expenses through the January, which is the latest invoice we have, is 5,500,000.0