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Council Member Brannan questions NYPD on budget, radio encryption, and local construction project
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Council Member Justin Brannan engages in a Q&A session with NYPD representatives, focusing on budget allocations, radio encryption progress, and a local construction project. He inquires about underspending in traffic enforcement, the status of radio encryption across precincts, and the timeline for a range reconstruction in Coney Island.
- NYPD representatives promise to provide more detailed information on budget discrepancies and vacant positions.
- Commissioner Jessica Tisch reports that 63.9% of NYPD zones have been encrypted, with full migration expected within a year.
- Deputy Commissioner Kristine Ryan confirms that construction on the Coney Island range project will begin in the summer, with exact completion date to be provided later.
Justin Brannan
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Within the traffic enforcement unit of appropriation there's $7,700,000 budgeted which supports 160 full time positions for tow violations.
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As of March, we see that about $130,000 has been spent for three positions.
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Could you walk us through that?
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Is this actual underspending in this area?
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Or have people been re assigned?
Kristine Ryan
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I'll have to get back to you on the details on that specific object code and budget code.
Justin Brannan
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Okay.
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Because it looks like there's like a 57 vacant positions according to the U of A.
Kristine Ryan
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We'll look at that.
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There may just be misalignment there.
Michael Greco
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Okay.
Justin Brannan
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One more for me and then I have a lot of questions from colleagues.
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The executive capital plan includes about $80,000,000 in FY twenty five and about $12,000,000 in FY twenty for the radio upgrades and encryption.
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This represents an increase of almost $10,000,000 in FY '26.
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Could you tell us what the status is of the radio encryption?
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Have all precincts and boroughs been encrypted?
Jessica Tisch
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No.
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They have not all been encrypted yet.
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Out of our 36 zones, 63.9%, twenty three or 63.9% are already encrypted.
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And we believe that the full migration is projected to complete within one year.
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One
Justin Brannan
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last question.
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Just something local for me.
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The capital plan includes nine and a half million dollars for the reconstruction of a range in my district in Coney Island.
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Could you tell us when construction will begin and end?
Kristine Ryan
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So we actually anticipate construction beginning this summer.
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With that, the contract is almost finalized and in place.
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I will, before the end of the hearing, get you the exact date of when we anticipate it will be complete.
Justin Brannan
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Okay.
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We've also been joined by deputy speaker Ayala.
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I'm now gonna turn it over to chair Salam.
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Thank you very much.