File #: Int 0978-2024    Version: Name: Requiring the 311 customer service center to provide certain resources in response to tree pruning-related requests.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Technology
On agenda: 6/20/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the 311 customer service center to provide certain resources in response to tree pruning-related requests
Sponsors: Nantasha M. Williams, Althea V. Stevens, Kevin C. Riley, Linda Lee, Shekar Krishnan, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Tiffany Cabán, Lincoln Restler, Mercedes Narcisse, Julie Won, Chris Banks, James F. Gennaro, Alexa Avilés, Sandra Ung, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Justin L. Brannan, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Sandy Nurse, Lynn C. Schulman, Crystal Hudson, Darlene Mealy, Chi A. Ossé, Susan Zhuang, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Kamillah Hanks, Francisco P. Moya, Robert F. Holden, Eric Dinowitz, Rita C. Joseph, Shahana K. Hanif, Farah N. Louis, Carlina Rivera , Inna Vernikov, Joann Ariola , Vickie Paladino
Council Member Sponsors: 35
Summary: This bill would require the 311 Customer Service Center, in coordination with the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), to provide 311 customers who file tree pruning-related service requests or information requests with online links to a map concerning tree inspections that is maintained by DPR as required by law, any map maintained by DPR that displays tree pruning schedules, and any informational webpage maintained by DPR on tree pruning. The 311 Customer Service Center would also have to provide these customers with any available informational resources concerning opportunities to receive volunteer certification in the pruning of street trees in New York City.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 978-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 978, 3. Int. No. 978, 4. June 20, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 6-20-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - June 20, 2024, 7. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 8. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 9. Committee Report 2/19/25, 10. Hearing Testimony 2/19/25, 11. Hearing Transcript 2/19/25, 12. Proposed Int. No. 978-A - 4/7/25, 13. Committee Report 4/10/25, 14. Int. No. 978-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 15. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 16. April 10, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
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4/10/2025ANantasha M. Williams City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
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4/10/2025*Nantasha M. Williams Committee on Technology Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/10/2025*Nantasha M. Williams Committee on Technology Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/10/2025*Nantasha M. Williams Committee on Technology Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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2/19/2025*Nantasha M. Williams Committee on Public Safety Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/19/2025*Nantasha M. Williams Committee on Public Safety Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/19/2025*Nantasha M. Williams Committee on Oversight and Investigations Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/19/2025*Nantasha M. Williams Committee on Oversight and Investigations Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/19/2025*Nantasha M. Williams Committee on Technology Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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6/20/2024*Nantasha M. Williams City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/20/2024*Nantasha M. Williams City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 978-A

 

By Council Members Williams, Stevens, Riley, Lee, Krishnan, Brooks-Powers, Cabán, Restler, Narcisse, Won, Banks, Gennaro, Avilés, Ung, Sanchez, Brannan, De La Rosa, Nurse, Schulman, Hudson, Mealy, Ossé, Zhuang, Gutiérrez, Hanks, Moya, Holden, Dinowitz, Joseph, Hanif, Louis, Rivera, Vernikov, Ariola and Paladino

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the 311 customer service center to provide certain resources in response to tree pruning-related requests

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 3 of title 23 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 23-312 to read as follows:

§ 23-312 Tree pruning complaints or requests for service. The 311 customer service center, in consultation with the department of parks and recreation, shall provide to any person who submits a complaint or request for service relating to the pruning of any tree under the jurisdiction of the department of parks and recreation:

1. A link to the map required by paragraph 5 of subdivision c of section 18-157;

2. A link to a page of the website of the department of parks and recreation that includes information about tree pruning and a map showing completed and scheduled tree pruning activities by such department; and

3. Information or resources about a program to train and certify volunteers in the pruning of trees.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

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LS #15457/15458/16054

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