Brewer on Intro 92A (alternate side stickers) and Intro 859A (street name bios)
Council Member Brewer explains Intro 92A restoring DSNY stickers for alternate side parking violations, noting 500,000 cars violate rules weekly. She also explains Intro 859A requiring DORIS to post biographical information for 9/11 first responder street co-namings, and honors Cecile Richards with a co-naming at 83rd Street and Central Park West.
Thank you very much.
Intro 92A, alternate side of the street stickers.
In 1987, sanitation started placing day glow green stickers on vehicles with repeated alternate side of the street violations.
The council banned them in 2012.
I probably voted for that stupid bill.
And people make the following calculation.
It's cheaper to not move your car for alternate side of the street parking and risk paying the $65 parking ticket cheaper than a garage.
In April of this year, the Sanitation Department estimated 500,000 cars violated street cleaning regulations.
In 1,200 routes every single week.
That meant that 3,000 miles was not cleaned.
People need to move their damn car.
And so I want to thank Speaker Menon, Sanitation Chair Sanchez for their support, Morgan Barrett, Joanna Castro, Andrew Velasquez, Jeff Baker, and for my office, Cynthia Hornig and Shula Puder.
I do want to thank the Sanitation Department also.
Number two, 859A.
This has to do with Omnibus Street naming.
We have a long history.
We want to make sure people know about it.
And in 2023, the council passed my local law 104, requiring the City Department of Records and Information Services, DARS, to create an interactive digital map of these co-namings.
But between 2002 and 2003, I think some of you were alive then, more than 400 streets were co-named for first responders killed on 9-11.
The speaker and I went to an awful lot of funerals then, and the city lacked their biographical information to update the map.
To the credit of Doris and former Commissioner Pauline Toole, they found all...
400 people wrote up their bios and put them through the council.
That's what this law does.
It says this, these are 400 people, they're ready to be recorded.
I want to thank Council Chris Santori and Senior Legislative Patrick Moff for their work.
I just want to also mention Cecile Richards.
Cecile Richards Way is one of the considering for co-signing at 83rd Street in Central Park West, head of Planned Parenthood, daughter of Ann Richards, governor.
Thank you.
Councilor Brooks-Powers, followed by Maloney.