File #: Int 1445-2025    Version: * Name: Capital plant inventory and maintenance.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation
On agenda: 10/29/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to capital plant inventory and maintenance
Sponsors: Lincoln Restler, Gale A. Brewer
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would update the asset inventory management report to require disclosure of additional information about the City’s infrastructure and its maintenance. This bill would also require that the Design and Development Corporation (DDC) work with registered architects or engineers to provide centralized guidance for agencies to use when conducting inspections along with an inspection schedule. This information would be publicly posted in a machine readable format. The cost estimate for the required maintenance would be prepared by DDC and would be considered by OMB and the Department of City Planning when they prepare the City’s 10-year capital plan. The bill would also require DDC to create an advanced capital planning tool that would be used to recommend necessary capital projects.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1445, 2. Int. No. 1445, 3. October 29, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-29-25

Int. No. 1445

 

By Council Members Restler and Brewer

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to capital plant inventory and maintenance

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivisions b, c, d, and e of section 1110-a of the New York city charter, as added by a vote of the electors on November 8, 1988, is amended to read as follows:

b. [Not] In order to inform the city’s capital strategy, not later than October [first of nineteen hundred eighty-nine] 1, 1989, the head of each agency shall submit to the mayor, for each major portion of the capital plant for which the agency or any officer or employee thereof is responsible, the following information:

1. the date of original acquisition or construction,

2. the dates of any significant alterations or reconstructions,

3. the original cost and original useful life,

4. the function,

5. the location,

6. the structural dependencies,

7. the estimated useful life.

8. the most recent condition assessment, and

9. the current replacement cost.

Any individual assets should be itemized and assessed. Such information shall be categorized by project type and shall denote when such asset is part of a campus or larger facility. 

c. Not later than October [first of nineteen hundred ninety] 1, 1990, the head of each agency shall submit to the mayor an agency capital plant inventory presenting, for each major portion of the capital plant for which the agency or any officer or employee thereof is responsible, an update of the information required by subdivision b of this section as well as an assessment of its condition and a schedule, by year, of maintenance activities. The head of each agency shall submit amendments of such agency capital plant inventory to the mayor as necessary to ensure that such inventory, including the condition assessments and maintenance schedules, is complete, current and accurate. Such inventory and amendments thereto shall be categorized by project type.

d. Such maintenance schedules and amendments thereto, other than amendments reflecting the disposition or demolition of any portion of the capital plant, shall be prepared or reviewed by the department of design and construction in consultation with relevant capital agencies and professional engineers or architects registered in the state of New York and such engineers or architects shall set forth in writing:

[(]1[)]. [their] Their opinions as to the reasonableness and sufficiency of the activities set forth in such schedules for maintaining such portions of the capital plant; [and]

[(]2[)]. Centralized guidance for use by agency officials inspecting assets and inventory, including, inspection scope, rating categories, and cost assessments; and

3. [their] Their recommendations, if any, for an appropriate citywide inspection schedule and changes in such schedules to ensure inventory updates are timely for use in the 10-year capital planning process required by section 215.

Such opinions and recommendations shall be based upon commonly used standards for acceptable levels of maintenance, the performance and other specifications to which such portions of the capital plant were designed, and such other engineering or architectural standards as may be appropriate. Such professional engineers or architects may be officers or employees of the city of New York.

e. The mayor shall transmit copies of such agency capital plant inventories, and all amendments thereto, to the council, the comptroller and the city planning commission and shall ensure that all information from such inventories as amended, including the condition assessments and maintenance schedules, and the opinions and recommendations related to such maintenance schedules are centrally stored and accessible to such officials, the agencies involved and [other interested parties] publicly posted on the website of the department of design and construction in a machine-readable format.

f. Not later than the first day of October of each year, [commencing in nineteen hundred ninety,] the mayor shall transmit to the council estimates for the ensuing fiscal year and for each of the three succeeding fiscal years of the amounts, by agency and project type and, within project type, by personal services and other-than-personal services, necessary to maintain all major portions of the capital plant, consistent with the maintenance schedules on file with the mayor pursuant to subdivision e of this section. Such estimates shall be prepared [or reviewed] by the department of design and construction and professional engineers or architects who prepared or reviewed such maintenance schedules or by professional engineers or architects registered in the State of New York and employed by the [office of management and budget]city of New York, in consultation with [or] the agencies involved. Such architects or engineers shall set forth in writing:

[(1)]1. [their] Their opinions as to the reasonableness of such estimates and whether such estimates have been logically derived from such maintenance schedules, and

[(2)] 2. [their] Their recommendations, if any, for changes in such estimates.

Such opinions and recommendations shall be centrally stored and accessible to any interested party in a machine-readable format.

g. The department of design and construction, in collaboration with the department of city planning, the office of management and budget, and any other relevant city agency, shall create an advanced capital planning tool to assist in preparation of capital plant inventories and planning for capital projects. Such advanced capital planning tool shall utilize the information submitted pursuant to subdivision b, public data sets as defined by section 23-501 of the administrative code, planning reports produced by agencies, neighborhood and programmatic needs, regulatory requirements and standards set by the administrative code and federal or state regulations, including the fire code, building code, chapter 126 of title 42 of the United States code, and any other information necessary to conduct long-term planning. The department shall recommend necessary capital projects to the office of management and budget and other city agencies based on such advanced capital planning tool.

§ 2. Subdivision c of section 215 of the New York city charter, as added by a vote of the electors on November 7, 1989, is amended as follows:

c. In the preparation of the preliminary ten-year capital strategy, the department of city planning and office of management and budget shall consider (i) the strategic policy statements of the mayor and the borough presidents pursuant to section [seventeen] 17, (ii) relevant citywide, borough and community plans adopted pursuant to section [one hundred ninety seven-a] 197-a, [and] (iii) the reports pursuant to section [two hundred fifty-seven] 257 comparing the most recent ten-year capital strategy with the capital budgets and programs adopted for the current and previous fiscal years, (iv) the costs identified by the asset infrastructure maintenance information produced in accordance with section 1110-a, prioritizing the needs identified as most critical, and (v) an itemized list of critical priorities that were excluded with narrative explanations for why those assets were omitted from the plan.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 120 after it becomes law.

 

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