Speaker Menin on 25% non-compliance and lack of pre-summer enforcement

How many buildings were non-compliant with Chair Shulman's 2025 law when it went into effect in May and June?

Our understanding of the data, please correct us if we're incorrect, is that 25% of buildings were not in compliance.

So why were there so few violations issued in May and June if there were 25% non-compliant buildings?

Across the city, citywide compliance with the new law was 77%.

That was about eight weeks after the new law had gone into effect.

Within the region, within the cluster region, compliance was 74%.

While the cluster carried on, as you know, we decided to take the most transparent step we've ever done as part of these clusters, and we released the names of the PCR-positive buildings.

And by the end of this cluster, through that process, 97% of those towers that we inspected were compliant.

And that's why the lesson that we learned from this process is that this transparency is a critical feature, critical part of the work to increase compliance on this brand new law.

And that's why one of our measures that we announced just yesterday is to further increase the transparency by

allowing residents to use this new tool where they can put their address in and get a map to see what the compliance history is of the towers in their neighborhood.

And that's, I guess, and I'm sure Chair Shulman will talk about that, but that is why we wanted, coming into the summer months, the proactive enforcement.

Again, this is sort of one of the themes that's coming out in this hearing.

We need far more proactive enforcement.

If there were 25% noncompliant buildings, there should have been far more active enforcement heading into the summer months.

I have two more questions.

I have many more questions, but then I'm going to go.

I pass it on to Chair Shulman.