Banks asks how CRI will speed repairs; Greene explains overtime, materials, and prioritization
Banks asks what "pushing faster" means under the Critical Repairs Initiative. Greene says CRI includes overtime funding, materials costs, and prioritization of items like missing cabinets, holes in walls, and temporary sinks.
So when you say pushing faster.
Walk me through how that looks.
So the way that it works is we do have, number one, we were allocated certain money for overtime under CRI.
The work has to be funded.
The trades don't work for free.
The capitalists cost money.
We spend $22 million a year in carpentry material at NYCHA.
So faster means how long would it take, let's say, a ticket is put in, a work order is put in to get the work completed?
So you used to go faster, so I want to know what faster.
It's faster two months, three months, seven months, eight months?
We're talking about carpentry or we're talking about?
It could be carpentry.
So carpentry, to get that faster, you know, number one, what we're doing.
If you want to break it down, you can do carpentry.
You can break it down by whatever the work order is.
What does faster look like?
We're not going to be able to cut it to 30 days.
Right now, we have, let me just pull up my numbers.
You can cut it below seven months.
Can you cut it below seven months?
So one thing we have to go back to is our P&A, which is the overall physical needs for the property.
Then we have to look at the staffing and the number of work orders.