Chair Menin Asks DOT About Outreach to Pandemic-Era Participants
Chair Julie Menin asks DOT if the agency sent direct communications to all 13,000 restaurants that participated in the temporary pandemic-era program.
Of the thirteen thousand one hundred and four restaurants that were just referenced, have you sent a letter to every single one of them to see if they want to apply for the new program?
We've visited each and every one of them several times.
We've sent them each numerous emails, and we've also reached out to them by phone in many cases.
So a DOT staff member of the eight people that you have working on this has gone to all 13,000 establishments?
No.
Um we have inspectors that are outside of the 24 that we talked about earlier.
We have 24 staff members in the dining out program.
Then we have a group of inspectors that deal with the restaurants on the street to make sure they're in compliance, et cetera.
Those are the people that visit.
And every single one has been visited.
Yes, and in some cases the restaurants aren't there anymore due to the nature of the industry.
Okay, I'll turn it over to Councilmember Lewis for questions.
Thank you, Chair.
And first deputy commissioner, thank you for being here today.