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Funding restoration for park perimeter and greenway basket service
1:56:33
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Council Member Shaun Abreu inquires about the restoration of funding for park perimeter and greenway basket service, including staffing and budget allocations. Commissioner Javier Lojan responds with details on the baseline funding, number of locations covered, and the potential for adjustments based on needs.
- Restoration includes 15 uniform positions and $1.4 million in FY2026, increasing in subsequent years
- Currently covers 600 high-traffic locations out of approximately 1,700 parks
- DSNY uses internal data tracking to monitor service needs and make adjustments
Shaun Abreu
1:56:33
Commissioner, the plan includes the restoration of funding that was removed in November 2023 for the park perimeter and greenway basket service, including the restoration of 15 uniform positions with 1,400,000.0 in allocated funds in fiscal twenty twenty six, '1 point '5 million in fiscal twenty seven, and 1,700,000.0 in fiscal twenty eight and 2,400,000.0 in fiscal twenty nine.
1:56:57
The restoration ensures continued service for maintaining clean clean park perimeters and greenway basket areas.
1:57:04
Are the additional 1,400,000.0 and 15 uniform positions in fiscal twenty six sufficient to meet the scope of cleanliness needs for parks for park perimeters and greenways?
1:57:45
And there's 600 locations out of how many total locations that could fall within this if fully funded?
1:57:56
So you could do more with more?
1:57:59
I think that's always the case, right?
Javier Lojan
1:57:18
So the baseline funding supports 18 positions dedicated to this.
1:57:24
So this is just perimeter, so it's supplemental to parks.
1:57:29
The 600 locations earlier, we feel is adequate for the high traffic areas, but we're always happy to work with parks or any members of the council on areas that they're seeing that there's a lapse in service where we can make adjustments when necessary.
1:57:52
Yeah.
1:57:52
I believe there's 1,700 parks.
1:57:59
Yes.
1:57:59
I mean,
1:58:12
So I think the our what I mentioned before, we call Trash Dash, which is our internal application where we track the different types of data, which is three one one, field observations, any kind of external complaints.
1:58:30
And we track that and seeing any year over year increases or decreases decreases 28 day and then a week to date.
1:58:39
And we're looking to see that type of data to see where we need to make any adjustments.
1:58:47
For, as I mentioned before, for the current fiscal year to date, the same period, we have seen a 21% decrease in three eleven complaints.
1:58:56
But we're always happy to get any kind of feedback from any external entity and seeing where those lapses are.
Zhikang Ling
1:57:55
Okay.
Crystal Hudson
1:58:11
Requests?