File #: Int 0871-2022    Version: * Name: An advisory board on crossing guard deployment.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 12/21/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to an advisory board on crossing guard deployment.
Sponsors: Althea V. Stevens, Kamillah Hanks, Farah N. Louis, Rita C. Joseph, Amanda Farías, Sandra Ung, (by request of the Bronx Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Summary: This bill requires the New York Police Department, Department of Transportation and Department of Education to participate in an advisory board relating to school crossing guards. Such advisory board would be responsible for submitting biannual reports, relating to recommended deployment of school crossing guards, to the Mayor, the City Council Speaker and the Police Commissioner.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 871, 2. Int. No. 871, 3. December 21, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 12-21-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - December 21, 2022
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12/31/2023*Althea V. Stevens City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/21/2022*Althea V. Stevens City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/21/2022*Althea V. Stevens City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 871

 

By Council Members Stevens, Hanks, Louis, Joseph, Farías and Ung (by request of the Bronx Borough President)

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to an advisory board on crossing guard deployment.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 14-118 is amended to add a new subdivision d to read as follows:

                     d. Advisory board on crossing guard deployment. 1. There shall be an advisory board (“the board”) to advise the commissioner concerning matters related to the deployment of crossing guards as provided for in this section.

2. The board shall be comprised of the commissioner, or his or her designee; the commissioner of the department of transportation, or his or her designee; and the commissioner of the department of education, or his or her designee.

3. No member of the board shall be removed except for cause and upon notice and hearing by the appropriate appointing official.

4. Members of the advisory board shall serve without compensation and shall meet no less often than every three months. The advisory board shall seek community input on proposed policy recommendations, including through consultation with local community boards and the chancellor’s parent advisory council.

5. The actions of the advisory board shall include, but not be limited to:

(a) conducting an assessment of the optimal headcount and station locations of crossing guards in New York City, including but not limited to, an evaluation of traffic patterns, shifting populations, and the needs of particular schools and programs; and

(b) making specific recommendations for changes and/or improvements, if any, to crossing guard deployment, including, but not limited to, optimal headcount and station locations.

6. The board shall hold at least one public meeting prior to issuance of the report pursuant to paragraph 7 of this section shall be open to the public, provided however that such meeting is no sooner than three months prior to the date of the issuance of such report.  The department shall notify the public as to the time, place and subject of such meeting.

7. The board shall report its findings and recommendations on or before March 1, 2023, and thereafter in biannual reports, and submit such reports to the mayor, the commissioner and the speaker of the council.  Such report shall include, but not be limited to: (a) an assessment of the optimal headcount and station locations of crossing guards in New York City; (b) proposed actions to be taken by the department in response to recommendations; and (c) an accounting for all task force actions, including a summary of each advisory board meeting and description of community input gathered in the course of the advisory board’s work.

§2.  This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

Session 12:

LS 9974 (S11 491-2018)

JDK

9/7/2022

 

Session 11:

BG/RC/JDK

LS #4803 (S10 Int. 983/2015)

LS # 887