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Council Member Ayala raises concerns about inequitable sanitation budget allocation
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Council Member Diana I. Ayala expresses concerns about the inequitable distribution of sanitation resources across different districts in New York City. She highlights the need for additional resources in high-density areas with social service needs and questions the criteria for budget allocation. Jacques Jiha, representing the Office of Management and Budget, responds by promising to communicate these concerns to the relevant departments.
- Ayala emphasizes that current sanitation efforts are insufficient in certain communities despite increased litter basket removals.
- She calls for a study to determine factors for balancing the budget equitably across districts.
- Jiha commits to having his staff reach out to Ayala's office to address the concerns raised.
Diana I. Ayala
1:07:42
Good morning.
1:07:43
Still morning.
1:07:45
My questions are regarding the asylum seeker response, but before I get to those, I did see and I heard in your testimony conversations about the expansion of the on the budget for sanitation.
1:07:59
And I just wanted to reiterate something that I've been bringing up in some of the other sanitation hearings that there hasn't really been, you know, real equity in the budget the way that I don't know.
1:08:13
I I haven't been able to determine how it is that sanitation decides how much funding each district gets, but in the district that I in represent and that some of my colleagues sitting here represent, we haven't really seen a decrease in garbage in the way that we would have hoped to when we increased like you know the litter basket removals.
1:08:39
It seems like we need more resources.
1:08:41
You know we have higher density.
1:08:43
We have a lot of social service needs.
1:08:45
There's just a lot of unusual circumstances that
Nantasha M. Williams
1:08:51
they
Diana I. Ayala
1:08:51
require additional resources and a study on on that right?
1:08:56
Because we would love to be able to say that our communities are you know clean and thriving and you know rodent proof as well, but that's not the case.
1:09:05
And it's not a criticism but more of an observation and you know hoping that finally I can get down to you know to the root of this and figure out what exactly is the determining factor in trying to balance out the budget in a way that is truly equitable.
1:09:22
Because if we all get a slice of the pizza but you already had two slices before you know I got there, then it's not equitable.
Jacques Jiha
1:09:29
I would defer to DSNY for geographic resource allocation and I would also communicate your concern to the commissioner as well.
Diana I. Ayala
1:09:41
And it's not that they're not cleaning because I see them They're doing what they're being asked to do.
1:09:47
It's just not so it's not them.
1:09:49
It's not enough.
1:09:50
Whatever it is that we're doing, it's really not enough in those communities.
Jacques Jiha
1:09:54
I will definitely have my folks reach out to your office.