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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Challenges with capital project processes and proposed alternatives
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Marx discusses the challenges faced in capital project processes and proposes alternative approaches to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
- Acknowledgment of frustrations with constraints and rules leading to extended timelines and increased costs
- Partnership with EDC for renovations of five historic Carnegie branches, completed more efficiently
- Call for inclusion of capital efforts in the ten-year capital plan
- Mention of design-build approach with DDC for Westchester Square Library, reducing costs from $44 million to $32 million
- Emphasis on finding better paths and alternative ways to manage capital projects
Anthony "Tony" Marx
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We we appreciate the hard work of all of our colleagues there.
0:26:28
We know they share our frustration with the constraints and rules that result in too much time being spent and too much money being spent.
0:26:38
So we continue to look for alternatives.
0:26:41
We partnered with the EDC in our five historic Carnegie branches, which we completed this year.
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Magnificent comprehensive renovations.
0:26:51
Huge shout out to Iris and my team for getting that result.
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We need all we need all of these efforts on capital included in the ten year capital plan.
0:27:04
Only then can we plan and produce the results which we are able to do when we manage with EDC or for ourselves at half the money and half the time.
0:27:17
Those are great results for all New Yorkers.
0:27:20
We welcome continued conversation with the administration now and in the future to ensure that we can find a better path and alternative ways of doing this.
0:27:31
We appreciate that now with DDC design build, we can do the Westchester Square Library for what is now budgeted at 32,000,000 instead of what had been budgeted at $44,000,000.