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Litter basket pickup service funding and allocation
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Council Member Abreu inquires about the allocation and impact of additional funding for litter basket pickup service.
- Executive plan includes $29.7 million baseline funding for current litter basket service
- Funding maintains current service levels, which contributed to a record drop in 311 litter complaints
- Overflow and litter basket complaints are down over 21% compared to the previous fiscal year
- DSNY plans to implement a more dynamic seasonal approach with the baseline funding
Shaun Abreu
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Alright.
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My last few set of questions before I let my colleagues ask.
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Litter basket pickup service.
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The executive plan includes an additional baseline 29,700,000.0 beginning in fiscal twenty twenty six for current litter basket service growing to 31,000,000 by fiscal twenty twenty eight.
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This funding maintains the current level of service which helped contribute to a record drop in three zero one litter complaints in fiscal twenty twenty five but leaves little room for growth or expansion in underserved areas.
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What specific services, frequency, coverage area, and staffing are supported by the additional 29,700,000.0 for litter basket pickup?
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And how are these resources allocated by borough or district?
Javier Lojan
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So one of the great things that we are seeing is that with this level of funding, the ability to baseline the level of service that is in this executive budget allows us to maintain the level of service that we've had in previous years.
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So we're seeing the impact of regular high levels of funding.
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Overflow and litter basket complaints are down over 21% through the April of this year compared to this previous same time last fiscal year.
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So now that we have this baseline funding, I think now one of the things that we are gonna look to do is have a more dynamic seasonal approach.
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Previously, we'd have to we could never count on that high level of funding until the adopted budget.
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I think now, we're gonna be able to analyze that a lot better and have a long term plan, on different corridors of of this across the city.