File #: Int 0461-2011    Version: Name: Establishing packaging reduction guidelines for contractors with city agencies.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Contracts
On agenda: 1/18/2011
Enactment date: 8/17/2011 Law number: 2011/051
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing packaging reduction guidelines for contractors with city agencies.
Sponsors: Annabel Palma, Gale A. Brewer, Fernando Cabrera , Margaret S. Chin, Helen D. Foster, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Deborah L. Rose, Jumaane D. Williams, Michael C. Nelson, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Stephen T. Levin, James G. Van Bramer, Jessica S. Lappin, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Peter F. Vallone, Jr., Elizabeth S. Crowley, Brad S. Lander, Daniel R. Garodnick, Sara M. Gonzalez, Mark S. Weprin, Ruben Wills, Robert Jackson, James F. Gennaro, Charles Barron, Eric A. Ulrich
Council Member Sponsors: 27
Attachments: 1. Int. No. 461 - 1/18/11, 2. Committee Report 2/28/11, 3. Hearing Transcript 2/28/11, 4. Committee Report 7/26/11, 5. Hearing Testimony 7/26/11, 6. Hearing Transcript 7/26/11, 7. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 7-28-11, 8. Local Law 51, 9. Mayor's Letter
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
8/17/2011AAnnabel Palma City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/17/2011AAnnabel Palma Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/17/2011AAnnabel Palma Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/28/2011AAnnabel Palma City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/28/2011AAnnabel Palma City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
7/26/2011*Annabel Palma Committee on Contracts Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/26/2011*Annabel Palma Committee on Contracts Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/26/2011*Annabel Palma Committee on Contracts Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/26/2011AAnnabel Palma Committee on Contracts Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
2/28/2011*Annabel Palma Committee on Contracts Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/28/2011*Annabel Palma Committee on Contracts Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/18/2011*Annabel Palma City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/18/2011*Annabel Palma City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 461-A
 
By Council Members Palma, Brewer, Cabrera, Chin, Foster, Gentile, James, Koppell, Rose, Williams, Nelson, Mark-Viverito, Levin, Van Bramer, Lappin, Recchia, Vallone, Crowley, Lander, Garodnick, Gonzalez, Weprin, Wills, Jackson, Gennaro, Barron and Ulrich  
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing packaging reduction guidelines for contractors with city agencies.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1. Chapter 3 of title 6 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subchapter 7 to read as follows:
Subchapter 7: Packaging Reduction
§ 6-317. Packaging reduction guidelines for city agencies. a. The director of citywide environmental purchasing, after consultation with the mayor's office of long term planning and sustainability, shall establish packaging reduction guidelines for contracts entered into by city agencies for the purchase of goods.
b. Such guidelines shall include but not be limited to the following agency requests: (i) whenever practicable, elimination of packaging or use of the minimum amount necessary for product protection; (ii) whenever practicable, use of packaging that is recyclable or reusable; and (iii) contractor reuse of pallets and packaging materials whenever practicable.   
c. The director of citywide environmental purchasing shall make such guidelines available to all city agencies and publish such guidelines on the city's website.
d. All city agencies shall reference the guidelines established pursuant to this section in conjunction with any request for bids issued by such agency for the purchase of goods.  
e. The director of citywide environmental purchasing, after consultation with the office of long-term planning and sustainability, shall establish a program through the city website, and any other relevant means of media or communication, to identify and recognize city agency contractors that consistently further the goals of the packaging reduction guidelines established pursuant to this section.  
§ 2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after it shall become a law except that city agencies, officers and employees, including but not limited to the director of citywide environmental purchasing and the director of the office of long-term planning and sustainability, shall take such actions as are necessary for its implementation prior to such effective date.
 
JJH/LC/SKM
LS #1456
3/28/2011