File #: Res 0606-2006    Version: * Name: Con Edison to remove of all forms of footwear and other encumbrances from all phone and power lines in NYC to improve the safety and well-being of the residents of NYC.
Type: Resolution Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 11/15/2006
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: Resolution calling upon Con Edison to remove all forms of footwear and other encumbrances from all phone and power lines in the city of New York to improve the safety and well-being of the residents of the city of New York.
Sponsors: Maria Baez, Gale A. Brewer, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Inez E. Dickens, Alan J. Gerson, Sara M. Gonzalez, Michael C. Nelson, James Sanders, Jr., Larry B. Seabrook, Thomas White, Jr.
Council Member Sponsors: 10

Res. No. 606

Resolution calling upon Con Edison to remove all forms of footwear and other encumbrances from all phone and power lines in the city of New York to improve the safety and well-being of the residents of the city of New York.

 

By Council Members Baez, Brewer, Comrie, Dickens, Gerson, Gonzalez, Nelson, Sanders, Seabrook and White

 

                     Whereas, Con Edison maintains over 36,000 miles of overhead electrical wires in the New York area; and

                     Whereas, A large portion of these wires have shoes or other items dangling from them that were put there by residents of the city of New York in a practice known as “shoefiti;” and

                     Whereas, Such placement of shoes and other material have been known to expose power and phone lines and have led to problems such as sparking, fires, and breaks in utility service; and

                     Whereas, Con Edison has an obligation to maintain the overhead lines free of potentially damaging obstructions; and

                     Whereas, Shoefiti has also been known to signify the presence of drugs and gangs in other North American cities; now, therefore, be it

                     Resolved, That the Council of the City of New York calls upon Con Edison to remove all forms of footwear and other encumbrances from its overhead phone and power lines in the city of New York in order to improve the safety and well-being of the residents of the city of New York.

 

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LS #790

10/27/06