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| | | 2. | INVOCATION - Delivered by: Rabbi Iris Richman, Founder, Jewish Voices Together located at 244 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211.
Motion to spread the Invocation in full upon the record by Council Member Gutiérrez. | | | | | |
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| | | 3. | ADOPTION OF MINUTES - Motion that the Minutes of the Stated Meeting of November 22, 2022 be adopted as printed by Council Member Ung. | | | | | |
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| | | 4. | MESSAGES & PAPERS FROM THE MAYOR - None | | | | | |
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| | | 5. | COMMUNICATIONS FROM CITY, COUNTY & BOROUGH OFFICES | | | | | |
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M 0104-2022
| * | | | Received, Ordered, Printed and Filed | Submitting estimates of the City’s debt-incurring power for Fiscal Years 2023-2026, pursuant to Section 232 of the New York City Charter. | Communication | | Rcvd, Ord, Prnt, Fld by Council | |
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M 0105-2022
| * | | | Finance | Transfer of city funds between various agencies in Fiscal Year 2023 to implement changes in the City's expense budget, pursuant to Section 107(b) of the New York City Charter. (MN-1) | Communication | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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| | | 6. | PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS - None | | | | | |
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| | | 8. | COMMUNICATION FROM THE SPEAKER | | | | | |
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| | | 9. | DISCUSSION OF GENERAL ORDERS | | | | | |
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| | | 10. | REPORTS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES - None | | | | | |
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| | | 11. | REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES | | | | | |
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| | | | REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CONTRACTS | | | | | |
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Int 0136-2022
| B | Julie Won | | Amended and Coupled on General Orders | The capabilities of community-based organizations to provide language services to support city services. | Introduction | This bill would require each agency that provides direct public or emergency services to develop a vendor resource guide of community-based translators and interpreters for at least 100 languages. Those agencies would then have discretion to utilize this list in order to fill agency contracts below the small purchase limits. The bill would also require the City’s Chief Procurement Officer to issue a quarterly report to the Mayor and the Speaker on agencies’ procurements of translation and interpretation services, including their use of vendors in in the vendor resource guide. | Approved by Council | Pass |
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| | | | REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE | | | | | |
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Res 0440-2022
| * | Justin L. Brannan | | Preconsidered - Coupled on General Orders | Resolution approving the new designation and changes in the designation of certain organizations to receive funding in the Expense Budget. | Resolution | | Approved, by Council | Pass |
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LU 0154-2022
| * | Justin L. Brannan | | | 505 West 43rd Street, Block 1072, Lot 1201, Manhattan, Community District No. 4, Council District No. 3. | Land Use Application | | Approved, by Council | Pass |
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Res 0451-2022
| * | Justin L. Brannan | | Preconsidered - Coupled on General Orders | LU 154 - 505 West 43rd Street, Block 1072, Lot 1201, Manhattan, Community District No. 4, Council District No. 3. | Resolution | | Approved, by Council | Pass |
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| | | | REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS | | | | | |
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Int 0382-2022
| A | Gale A. Brewer | | Amended and Coupled on General Orders | Requiring certain agencies to publish guidance on responding to settlement offers, translate such guidance into the designated citywide languages, and notify settlement offer recipients about such guidance. | Introduction | This bill would require each settlement offer sent by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to be accompanied by a multilingual notice that: (1) informs the recipient that they are receiving a settlement offer because they are being charged with a violation of the law; and (2) directs the recipient (via a QR code or similar mechanism) to a portion of the agency’s website with plain language information about the recipient’s options for responding to the settlement offer. Both the notice and the online information would need to be translated into each of the designated citywide languages, which are the top ten languages spoken by New Yorkers with limited English proficiency. | Approved by Council | Pass |
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Int 0697-2022
| A | Sandra Ung | | Amended and Coupled on General Orders | Providing supplemental language access services in connection with temporary language needs. | Introduction | This bill would expand upon the City’s Language Access Law by requiring agencies to provide services in additional languages, as necessary, to respond to an emergency in which a large number of people who do not speak one of the designated citywide languages are arriving in the City and seeking city services. | Approved by Council | Pass |
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Int 0700-2022
| A | Julie Won | | Amended and Coupled on General Orders | Translation services for compliance materials. | Introduction | This bill would amend the Language Access Law to require agencies that provide direct public services to produce translations of written materials that the agency distributes when enforcing New York City laws and carrying out compliance actions. | Approved by Council | Pass |
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| | | | REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MENTAL HEALTH, DISABILITIES AND ADDICTION | | | | | |
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Int 0681-2022
| A | Linda Lee | | Amended and Coupled on General Orders | Workforce development for persons with disabilities. | Introduction | This proposed bill would codify NYC:ATWORK, a program of the Mayor’s Office for Persons with Disabilities (MOPD) that provides resources and direct support to job seekers and employers for the purpose of promoting employment of persons with disabilities in all employment sectors. This proposed bill would require the Department of Small Business Services (SBS), the Mayor’s Office of Talent and Workforce Development (MOTWD) and MOPD to collaborate to administer a workforce development program for persons with disabilities in NYC. This proposed bill would expand the existing NYC:ATWORK program by requiring SBS, MOTWD, and MOPD to maintain an online resource to connect employers and job seekers, which would include a current list of all vacant positions from participating employers. Resources would be made publicly available to support applicants with the job search process, and to provide employers with guidance on making accommodations, including by conducting informational sessions for employers at least twice annually. Additionally, the proposed bill would require SBS, MOTWD, and MOPD to carry out a public awareness campaign targeted at potential employers to facilitate participation in the program and employment of persons with disabilities. | Approved by Council | Pass |
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Int 0682-2022
| A | Linda Lee | | Amended and Coupled on General Orders | Requiring agencies to develop a five-year accessibility plan. | Introduction | The proposed bill would require the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) to consult with each agency to develop and implement a five-year accessibility plan, to include, at minimum: (1) the steps the agency is taking and will be taking over the next 5 years to ensure accessibility to the agency’s workplace, services, and programs, and (2) information on ongoing projects and projects planned over the next 5 years related to improving physical, digital and programmatic access, and effective communications for persons with disabilities. MOPD would also be required to invite the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to develop and submit a five-year accessibility plan. The proposed bill would require each agency to post a proposed version of their five-year accessibility plan on their website and to circulate it for public comment. The proposed bill would further require interim reporting on each agency’s progress towards accessibility until the deadline for posting the five-year accessibility plans to the respective agencies’ websites on March 15, 2024. Lastly, the proposed bill would require MOPD to conduct outreach to any agency or entity (including the MTA) to share best practices regarding accessibility. If any such agency or entity does not develop a five-year accessibility plan within 90 days of such meeting, MOPD would be required to post on its website a statement that the agency or entity failed to develop such plan, and include a summary of best practices shared with the agency or entity. | Approved by Council | Pass |
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| | | | REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PARKS AND RECREATION | | | | | |
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Int 0174-2022
| A | Shekar Krishnan | | Amended and Coupled on General Orders | Reporting on park capital expenditures. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) to expand its web based capital projects tracker to include more detailed information regarding its capital projects, including the total number of projects in its portfolio, the reasons for any delays, the dates projects were fully funded, projected and actual cost overruns, individual sources of funding and the length of time it took to complete each project. | Approved by Council | Pass |
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Int 0680-2022
| A | Shekar Krishnan | | Amended and Coupled on General Orders | Survey to determine the feasibility of creating small parks and green spaces on public streets with dead ends and vacant city-owned land near streets with dead ends. | Introduction | This local law would require an agency or office designated by the mayor, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Citywide Administrative Services and any other appropriate agency, to review sites, owned by the city of New York in residential zones in each borough, on streets with dead ends and vacant land in close proximity to such streets, and land that abuts highway entrances, underpasses and exits, that are suitable for the planting of trees or other vegetation, or for establishing bioswales, small parks or other green spaces.. The survey would prioritize sites located in environmental justice communities. The survey would have to be submitted to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council by April, 1 2024, and would include an analysis of the condition of each surveyed site, as well as the feasibility of planting trees or other vegetation or the installation of bioswales, small parks or other green spaces, a description of the necessary steps associated with installing these features, as well as an estimate of the length of time and the overall cost to do so for each site. | Approved by Council | Pass |
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Int 0842-2022
| A | Shekar Krishnan | | Amended and Coupled on General Orders | Requiring the department of parks and recreation to develop a strategy to reduce the duration of its capital projects. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Parks and Recreation to prepare a strategy, in coordination with other city agencies as appropriate, to reduce the duration of capital projects by at least 25 percent. The strategy would review, at a minimum, early completion incentives; standardization of processes, timelines, and forms; coordination with utility companies; and possible changes to regulatory barriers. The strategy would have to be submitted to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council by no later than December 1, 2023. | Approved by Council | Pass |
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| | | | REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RULES, PRIVILEGES AND ELECTIONS | | | | | |
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M 0101-2022
| * | | | | Isabel Castilla, New York City Public Design Commission | Mayor's Message | | Approved, by Council | Pass |
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Res 0452-2022
| * | Keith Powers | | Coupled on General Orders | M 101 - Isabel Castilla, New York City Public Design Commission | Resolution | | Approved, by Council | Pass |
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M 0102-2022
| * | | | | James Van Bramer, New York City Public Design Commission | Mayor's Message | | Approved, by Council | Pass |
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Res 0453-2022
| * | Keith Powers | | Coupled on General Orders | M 102 - James Van Bramer, New York City Public Design Commission | Resolution | | Approved, by Council | Pass |
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| | | | REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SANITATION AND SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT | | | | | |
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Int 0630-2022
| A | Sandy Nurse | | Amended and Coupled on General Orders | The tracking of street cleaning operations online. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) to equip street sweepers with global positioning system (GPS) technology and ensure that such technology is functioning during street cleaning operations. The bill would also require DSNY to publish and maintain a page on its website that allows the public to track and confirm the completion of street cleanings, using data from GPS devices installed on street sweepers. This bill would also require DSNY to submit biannual reports for two years on street cleanings to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council and post the reports on the DSNY website. | Approved by Council | Pass |
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| | | | REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS | | | | | |
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Int 0699-2022
| A | Sandra Ung | | Amended and Coupled on General Orders | Enhancing language access for small business owners, and to repeal a related definition in section 17-1501 of such code. | Introduction | This bill would strengthen existing protections for small business owners who speak a language other than English. The bill would clarify and strengthen protections outlined in the Business Owner’s Bill of Rights and the Food Service Establishment Code of Conduct, including by requiring the Bill of Rights and Code of Conduct to be translated into additional languages. In addition, the bill would require certain city agencies that regularly conduct inspections to report annually on the number of bilingual inspectors they employ and the languages spoken by those inspectors. Furthermore, the bill would require the Hearings Division of the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings to translate its written decisions upon request. | Approved by Council | Pass |
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| | | 12. | GENERAL ORDERS CALENDAR | | | | | |
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| | | | COUPLED ON GENERAL ORDERS CALENDAR | | | | | |
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Int 0136-2022
| B | Julie Won | ~coupled | A and GO | The capabilities of community-based organizations to provide language services to support city services. | Introduction | This bill would require each agency that provides direct public or emergency services to develop a vendor resource guide of community-based translators and interpreters for at least 100 languages. Those agencies would then have discretion to utilize this list in order to fill agency contracts below the small purchase limits. The bill would also require the City’s Chief Procurement Officer to issue a quarterly report to the Mayor and the Speaker on agencies’ procurements of translation and interpretation services, including their use of vendors in in the vendor resource guide. | | |
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| | | ~coupled | FINANCE | | | | | |
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Res 0440-2022
| * | Justin L. Brannan | ~coupled | Preconsidered – GO | Resolution approving the new designation and changes in the designation of certain organizations to receive funding in the Expense Budget. | Resolution | | | |
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Res 0451-2022
| * | Justin L. Brannan | ~coupled | Preconsidered – GO | LU 154 - 505 West 43rd Street, Block 1072, Lot 1201, Manhattan, Community District No. 4, Council District No. 3. | Resolution | | | |
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Int 0382-2022
| A | Gale A. Brewer | ~coupled | A and GO | Requiring certain agencies to publish guidance on responding to settlement offers, translate such guidance into the designated citywide languages, and notify settlement offer recipients about such guidance. | Introduction | This bill would require each settlement offer sent by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to be accompanied by a multilingual notice that: (1) informs the recipient that they are receiving a settlement offer because they are being charged with a violation of the law; and (2) directs the recipient (via a QR code or similar mechanism) to a portion of the agency’s website with plain language information about the recipient’s options for responding to the settlement offer. Both the notice and the online information would need to be translated into each of the designated citywide languages, which are the top ten languages spoken by New Yorkers with limited English proficiency. | | |
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Int 0697-2022
| A | Sandra Ung | ~coupled | A and GO | Providing supplemental language access services in connection with temporary language needs. | Introduction | This bill would expand upon the City’s Language Access Law by requiring agencies to provide services in additional languages, as necessary, to respond to an emergency in which a large number of people who do not speak one of the designated citywide languages are arriving in the City and seeking city services. | | |
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Int 0700-2022
| A | Julie Won | ~coupled | A and GO | Translation services for compliance materials. | Introduction | This bill would amend the Language Access Law to require agencies that provide direct public services to produce translations of written materials that the agency distributes when enforcing New York City laws and carrying out compliance actions. | | |
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| | | ~coupled | MENTAL HEALTH, DISABILITIES AND ADDICTION | | | | | |
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Int 0681-2022
| A | Linda Lee | ~coupled | A and GO | Workforce development for persons with disabilities. | Introduction | This proposed bill would codify NYC:ATWORK, a program of the Mayor’s Office for Persons with Disabilities (MOPD) that provides resources and direct support to job seekers and employers for the purpose of promoting employment of persons with disabilities in all employment sectors. This proposed bill would require the Department of Small Business Services (SBS), the Mayor’s Office of Talent and Workforce Development (MOTWD) and MOPD to collaborate to administer a workforce development program for persons with disabilities in NYC. This proposed bill would expand the existing NYC:ATWORK program by requiring SBS, MOTWD, and MOPD to maintain an online resource to connect employers and job seekers, which would include a current list of all vacant positions from participating employers. Resources would be made publicly available to support applicants with the job search process, and to provide employers with guidance on making accommodations, including by conducting informational sessions for employers at least twice annually. Additionally, the proposed bill would require SBS, MOTWD, and MOPD to carry out a public awareness campaign targeted at potential employers to facilitate participation in the program and employment of persons with disabilities. | | |
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Int 0682-2022
| A | Linda Lee | ~coupled | A and GO | Requiring agencies to develop a five-year accessibility plan. | Introduction | The proposed bill would require the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) to consult with each agency to develop and implement a five-year accessibility plan, to include, at minimum: (1) the steps the agency is taking and will be taking over the next 5 years to ensure accessibility to the agency’s workplace, services, and programs, and (2) information on ongoing projects and projects planned over the next 5 years related to improving physical, digital and programmatic access, and effective communications for persons with disabilities. MOPD would also be required to invite the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to develop and submit a five-year accessibility plan. The proposed bill would require each agency to post a proposed version of their five-year accessibility plan on their website and to circulate it for public comment. The proposed bill would further require interim reporting on each agency’s progress towards accessibility until the deadline for posting the five-year accessibility plans to the respective agencies’ websites on March 15, 2024. Lastly, the proposed bill would require MOPD to conduct outreach to any agency or entity (including the MTA) to share best practices regarding accessibility. If any such agency or entity does not develop a five-year accessibility plan within 90 days of such meeting, MOPD would be required to post on its website a statement that the agency or entity failed to develop such plan, and include a summary of best practices shared with the agency or entity. | | |
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Int 0174-2022
| A | Shekar Krishnan | ~coupled | A and GO | Reporting on park capital expenditures. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) to expand its web based capital projects tracker to include more detailed information regarding its capital projects, including the total number of projects in its portfolio, the reasons for any delays, the dates projects were fully funded, projected and actual cost overruns, individual sources of funding and the length of time it took to complete each project. | | |
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Int 0680-2022
| A | Shekar Krishnan | ~coupled | A and GO | Survey to determine the feasibility of creating small parks and green spaces on public streets with dead ends and vacant city-owned land near streets with dead ends. | Introduction | This local law would require an agency or office designated by the mayor, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Citywide Administrative Services and any other appropriate agency, to review sites, owned by the city of New York in residential zones in each borough, on streets with dead ends and vacant land in close proximity to such streets, and land that abuts highway entrances, underpasses and exits, that are suitable for the planting of trees or other vegetation, or for establishing bioswales, small parks or other green spaces.. The survey would prioritize sites located in environmental justice communities. The survey would have to be submitted to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council by April, 1 2024, and would include an analysis of the condition of each surveyed site, as well as the feasibility of planting trees or other vegetation or the installation of bioswales, small parks or other green spaces, a description of the necessary steps associated with installing these features, as well as an estimate of the length of time and the overall cost to do so for each site. | | |
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Int 0842-2022
| A | Shekar Krishnan | ~coupled | A and GO | Requiring the department of parks and recreation to develop a strategy to reduce the duration of its capital projects. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Parks and Recreation to prepare a strategy, in coordination with other city agencies as appropriate, to reduce the duration of capital projects by at least 25 percent. The strategy would review, at a minimum, early completion incentives; standardization of processes, timelines, and forms; coordination with utility companies; and possible changes to regulatory barriers. The strategy would have to be submitted to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council by no later than December 1, 2023. | | |
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Res 0452-2022
| * | Keith Powers | ~coupled | GO | M 101 - Isabel Castilla, New York City Public Design Commission | Resolution | | | |
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Res 0453-2022
| * | Keith Powers | ~coupled | GO | M 102 - James Van Bramer, New York City Public Design Commission | Resolution | | | |
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Int 0630-2022
| A | Sandy Nurse | ~coupled | A and GO | The tracking of street cleaning operations online. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) to equip street sweepers with global positioning system (GPS) technology and ensure that such technology is functioning during street cleaning operations. The bill would also require DSNY to publish and maintain a page on its website that allows the public to track and confirm the completion of street cleanings, using data from GPS devices installed on street sweepers. This bill would also require DSNY to submit biannual reports for two years on street cleanings to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council and post the reports on the DSNY website. | | |
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Int 0699-2022
| A | Sandra Ung | ~coupled | A and GO | Enhancing language access for small business owners, and to repeal a related definition in section 17-1501 of such code. | Introduction | This bill would strengthen existing protections for small business owners who speak a language other than English. The bill would clarify and strengthen protections outlined in the Business Owner’s Bill of Rights and the Food Service Establishment Code of Conduct, including by requiring the Bill of Rights and Code of Conduct to be translated into additional languages. In addition, the bill would require certain city agencies that regularly conduct inspections to report annually on the number of bilingual inspectors they employ and the languages spoken by those inspectors. Furthermore, the bill would require the Hearings Division of the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings to translate its written decisions upon request. | | |
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Int 0853-2022
| * | Joann Ariola | ~SPONSOR | Transportation and Infrastructure | Installing intermediate reference location signs on designated sections of Cross Bay Boulevard, Beach Channel Drive, and Rockaway Point Boulevard. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the police department and the fire department, to install intermediate reference location signs, commonly known as mile markers, at one tenth of a mile intervals along designated stretches of Cross Bay Boulevard, Beach Channel Drive, and Rockaway Point Boulevard. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Res 0439-2022
| * | Alexa Avilés | ~SPONSOR | Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations | Standing in solidarity with the women of Iran and supporting the removal of Iran from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. | Resolution | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Res 0440-2022
| * | Justin L. Brannan | ~SPONSOR | Preconsidered - Finance | Resolution approving the new designation and changes in the designation of certain organizations to receive funding in the Expense Budget. | Resolution | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0854-2022
| * | Selvena N. Brooks-Powers | ~SPONSOR | Transportation and Infrastructure | New daylighting measures. | Introduction | This bill requires that the Department of Transportation (DOT) study safety benefits of daylighting and daylighting barriers, and implement daylighting at a minimum of 100 intersections a year beginning on January 1, 2025. DOT would also be required to install daylighting barriers in intersections where daylighting has been implemented, subject to the Commissioner’s determination. The Commissioner may determine to cease implementation of daylighting at 100 intersections a year on or after January 1, 2030 if additional daylighting would not meaningfully contribute to the safety of motorists, pedestrians, or cyclists and the Commissioner notifies the Speaker of such determination. DOT must annually report on the locations at which daylighting has been implemented and discontinued. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0855-2022
| * | Selvena N. Brooks-Powers | ~SPONSOR | Preconsidered - Governmental Operations | Requiring disclosure of the identity of contributors to entities making independent expenditures in support of or in opposition to any municipal ballot proposal or referendum. | Introduction | This bill would require independent spenders working to influence the results of a municipal ballot initiative to disclose such spenders’ donors to the Campaign Finance Board and, in certain cases, in their advertisements. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0856-2022
| * | Tiffany Cabán | ~SPONSOR | General Welfare | Outreach to unsheltered individuals. | Introduction | This bill would prohibit police officers from engaging in any outreach to unsheltered individuals experiencing homelessness. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Res 0441-2022
| * | Amanda Farías | ~SPONSOR | Transportation and Infrastructure | Authorize New York City to set a five mile per hour speed limit on streets participating in the Open Streets program. (S.315/A.1416) | Resolution | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Res 0442-2022
| * | Crystal Hudson | ~SPONSOR | Finance | National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2021. (H.R. 3339) | Resolution | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Res 0443-2022
| * | Crystal Hudson | ~SPONSOR | Women and Gender Equity | Congress to pass, and the President to sign, the LGBTQIA+ package of legislation currently before Congress. | Resolution | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0857-2022
| * | Rita C. Joseph | ~SPONSOR | Education | Expanding disaggregated data in department of education reporting, including metrics on students in foster care and students in temporary housing. | Introduction | This bill would amend existing Department of Education reporting requirements to expand disaggregated data captured by the reporting, particularly as it relates to students who are in foster care or in temporary housing. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0858-2022
| * | Rita C. Joseph | ~SPONSOR | Transportation and Infrastructure | Requiring the department of transportation to investigate vehicle collisions. | Introduction | The proposed bill would amend the DOT’s crash investigation and analysis unit to expand the definition of serious vehicular crash, require that investigations be commenced within one week and completed within one month, and require more detailed reporting of such investigations. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0859-2022
| * | Rita C. Joseph | ~SPONSOR | Transportation and Infrastructure | Special activation of the Open Streets program on certain holidays and time periods with significant pedestrian traffic. | Introduction | This bill would modify the existing Open Streets program to require the Department of Transportation to offer special activation opportunities for Open Streets participants to expand their operating hours on designated holidays, including Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Halloween, and other holidays or days with significant pedestrian traffic, at the discretion of the Department. It also requires the Department to solicit suggestions from community organizations to add special activation opportunities for other holidays. Applications for special activations would be included in and subject to the same review standards as the general application and renewal process. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Res 0444-2022
| * | Rita C. Joseph | ~SPONSOR | Education | Requiring all district leadership teams to operate under open meetings law requirements. | Resolution | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Res 0445-2022
| * | Rita C. Joseph | ~SPONSOR | Education | Requiring District Leadership Teams and School Leadership Teams to include student representatives. | Resolution | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Res 0446-2022
| * | Rita C. Joseph | ~SPONSOR | Education | Establishing the citywide leadership team. | Resolution | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0860-2022
| * | Ari Kagan | ~SPONSOR | Transportation and Infrastructure | Traffic studies conducted by the department of transportation. | Introduction | This bill would codify the definition of a “traffic study” and the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) process of approving or denying a traffic study request. This bill would require DOT to perform a requested traffic study, if one had not been performed within 18 months. If a traffic study was performed within 18 months, DOT may deny the request but only if the traffic conditions remain materially the same. If a traffic study is denied, upon request, DOT would be required to provide a written statement stating that traffic conditions are the same, and provide a copy of previous traffic studies and their summaries within 2 weeks of the request being made. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Res 0447-2022
| * | Julie Menin | ~SPONSOR | Environmental Protection | New York Deforestation-Free Procurement Act. (A.6872A/S.5921A) | Resolution | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0861-2022
| * | Sandy Nurse | ~SPONSOR | Sanitation and Solid Waste Management | Emergency and resiliency plans of the department of sanitation. | Introduction | This bill would require that the Department of Sanitation maintain a separate page on the City’s website where it makes available all of its plans relating to emergencies and resiliency, including provision of services during emergencies, provision of services prior to anticipated flooding events in flood-prone areas, and designing new critical facilities for climate resiliency and retrofitting existing facilities to increase resiliency. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0862-2022
| * | Public Advocate Jumaane Williams | ~SPONSOR | Housing and Buildings | Responding to complaints filed about immediately hazardous and hazardous conditions in multiple dwellings. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to respond to complaints received about an immediately hazardous condition within 5 hours or about a hazardous condition within 48 hours of the complaint being received for a multiple dwelling unit. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0863-2022
| * | Lincoln Restler | ~SPONSOR | Sanitation and Solid Waste Management | Public organic waste receptacles. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Sanitation to install at least twenty-five public organic waste receptacles in every community district, prioritizing areas of high-pedestrian traffic. The Department would be required to empty such public organic waste receptacles at least once per week and post the locations of such receptacles on its website. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0864-2022
| * | Lincoln Restler | ~SPONSOR | Civil and Human Rights | Forbidding agreements to shorten the period in which claims and complaints of unlawful discriminatory practices, harassment or violence may be filed and in which civil actions may be commenced. | Introduction | Under Title 8 of the Administrative Code, people have one year to file a complaint with the NYC Commission on Human Rights for an unlawful discriminatory practice or act of discriminatory harassment or violence and three years to file a claim of gender-based harassment. In addition, they may commence a civil action within three years. This bill would make unenforceable and void any provision of any agreement that purports to shorten such periods. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0865-2022
| * | Carlina Rivera | ~SPONSOR | General Welfare | Requiring child protective specialists to orally disseminate information to parents or caretakers about their rights during initial contact at the start of an ACS investigation. | Introduction | This bill would require the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) to orally disseminate to a parent or caretaker information about their rights during a child protective investigation at ACS’ initial point of contact with a parent or caretaker during such investigation. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Res 0448-2022
| * | Rafael Salamanca, Jr. | ~SPONSOR | Public Safety | Prohibit the use of no-knock warrants, except in certain circumstances. (S11A/A2683) | Resolution | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0866-2022
| * | Althea V. Stevens | ~SPONSOR | Contracts | Report on community engagement by city contractors. | Introduction | This bill would require each city contractor who has committed to working with community members or organizations, to report quarterly on such work to the contracting agency. Each contracting agency would be required to report annually such information to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0867-2022
| * | Althea V. Stevens | ~SPONSOR | Education | Requiring the department of education to conduct a study on school murals. | Introduction | This bill would require the department of education to conduct a survey on murals found in NYC schools and assess, in collaboration with community members, whether the murals in each school are appropriate or relevant in the respective community. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0868-2022
| * | Althea V. Stevens | ~SPONSOR | Education | Requiring the department of education to report on the number of District 75 students and the criteria used to determine the location of District 75 schools. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Education (DOE) to issue an annual report to the Speaker, and to post such report on the DOE website, regarding District 75 programs. DOE-designated District 75 programs provide educational, vocational, and behavioral support to students with significant challenges, such as Autism Spectrum Disorders, significant cognitive delays, emotional disturbances, sensory impairments and multiple disabilities. The required report would include the number of students in each building that provides a District 75 program, as well as the criteria DOE considers to determine where to establish a District 75 program. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0869-2022
| * | Althea V. Stevens | ~SPONSOR | Housing and Buildings | Requiring the provision of notices regarding the obligation to maintain retaining walls. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Buildings to provide annual notices to property owners who are responsible for maintaining retaining walls that would explain their obligation to maintain such walls. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0870-2022
| * | Althea V. Stevens | ~SPONSOR | Public Safety | Reporting on crossing guard deployment. | Introduction | This bill would require the NYPD to post a map to the Department website relating to crossing guard deployment in New York City. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0871-2022
| * | Althea V. Stevens | ~SPONSOR | Public Safety | An advisory board on crossing guard deployment. | Introduction | 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. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Res 0449-2022
| * | Nantasha M. Williams | ~SPONSOR | Public Safety | Prohibiting the search, with or without a warrant, of geolocation and keyword data of people who are under no individual suspicion of having committed a crime. (A.84/S.296A) | Resolution | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Res 0450-2022
| * | Nantasha M. Williams | ~SPONSOR | Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations | Recognizing the contributions of Def Jam to the music industry and to music lovers everywhere by designating January 2024 as Def Jam Recognition Month in the City of New York. | Resolution | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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Int 0872-2022
| * | Kalman Yeger | ~SPONSOR | Transportation and Infrastructure | Illegal curb cuts and requiring local community board notification of curb cut applications. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to investigate any complaint of illegal curb cuts within 30 days. If DOT finds a curb cut was illegally created, DOT would paint the curb cut green to indicate it is available for parking and require property owners to either obtain the required permits for the curb cut or restore it. If the property owner does not correct the illegal curb cut, DOT would be required to do so, recovering the cost from the property owner. Additionally, community boards would be notified of any applications for permits to create a curb cut within the community district. | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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LU 0154-2022
| * | Justin L. Brannan | ~SPONSOR | Preconsidered - Finance | 505 West 43rd Street, Block 1072, Lot 1201, Manhattan, Community District No. 4, Council District No. 3. | Land Use Application | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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LU 0155-2022
| * | Rafael Salamanca, Jr. | ~SPONSOR | Zoning and Franchises | Zoning, 97-27 57th Ave. Commercial Overlay, Queens (C 220250 ZMQ) | Land Use Application | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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LU 0155-2022
| * | Rafael Salamanca, Jr. | | | Zoning, 97-27 57th Ave. Commercial Overlay, Queens (C 220250 ZMQ) | Land Use Application | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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LU 0156-2022
| * | Rafael Salamanca, Jr. | ~SPONSOR | Zoning and Franchises | Zoning, 58-02 Northern Blvd Rezoning, Queens (C 210389 ZMQ) | Land Use Application | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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LU 0156-2022
| * | Rafael Salamanca, Jr. | | | Zoning, 58-02 Northern Blvd Rezoning, Queens (C 210389 ZMQ) | Land Use Application | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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LU 0157-2022
| * | Rafael Salamanca, Jr. | ~SPONSOR | Zoning and Franchises | Zoning, 58-02 Northern Blvd Rezoning, Queens (N 210390 ZRQ) | Land Use Application | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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LU 0157-2022
| * | Rafael Salamanca, Jr. | | | Zoning, 58-02 Northern Blvd Rezoning, Queens (N 210390 ZRQ) | Land Use Application | | Referred to Comm by Council | |
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