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Chair Lee on ECB review findings and collection improvement strategies

New York City Council · Jun 9, 2026 · starts 0:16:16 · 53 sec

Lee asks what findings emerged from the 30-day review. Commissioner Lee describes better targeting and classification, coordination with sister agencies like DOB, potential state legislation, and focusing outreach within the first year of violation issuance when collections are most responsive.

Linda Lee

Okay, and then what were some of those findings in terms of how to improve?

Richard Lee

So some of the findings do include things like bettering targets and bettering classification, finding ways that we can tie and work with our sister agencies like DOB and other issuing agencies to tie to other programs or licensing that they might have.

Richard Lee

And it includes in looking at state legislation that may be needed in order to improve some of our collections.

Richard Lee

It is reaching out for our account executive unit to, again, do a more closer and touch with some of our high respondents

Richard Lee

and figure out ways that we can better target the timing of some of these violations.

Richard Lee

The largest collection of violations come in within the first year of the issuance of the violation.

Richard Lee

So we're trying to better time it so that we can target in the first year.

Linda Lee

Okay, perfect.