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Banks asks parent vs. child work order breakdown; Greene details craft backlogs

New York City Council · Sep 22, 2026 · starts 1:03:16 · 1 min 56 sec

Banks asks for the breakdown of parent and child work orders. Greene says about 110,000 are parent work orders and 496,000 are child work orders, then lists open tickets by craft, including 83,000 carpenter and 150,000 painter work orders.

Chris Banks

Let me then move to this question.

Chris Banks

And what is the breakdown for the total parent work orders and total child work orders?

Daniel Greene

Sure.

Daniel Greene

So of the 606,000, I'm just going to say 606 just because it's a little bit easier to roll off the tongue.

Daniel Greene

It's 8,000.

Daniel Greene

110,000 are parent work orders and 496,000 approximately are child work orders.

Daniel Greene

And then I'd like to give you the breakdown by craft because that's important for understanding the breakdown for skilled trade.

Daniel Greene

So right now, our bricklayers have about 7,800 tickets open.

Daniel Greene

Our carpenters, which we heard about some challenges that we have with carpentry tickets, about 83,000 open.

Daniel Greene

That's actually down from where it was two years ago by about 4,000 work orders, but have about 83,000 open right now.

Daniel Greene

Our electricians have 13,000 work orders open.

Daniel Greene

Our glaziers who handle our glasswork have 2,700 tickets open.

Daniel Greene

Our painters, and this is a critical number here, 150,000 work orders open for painters, and that's just NYCHA painters.

Daniel Greene

Plasters is about 37,600.

Daniel Greene

Plumbers, 16,700.

Daniel Greene

And roofers, 50.

Daniel Greene

A lot of those work orders were discharged.

Daniel Greene

generated yesterday, but some of them are aging.

Daniel Greene

For exterminators, we have about 10,000, 1,100 tickets open.

Daniel Greene

For maintenance, we have about 16,700 tickets open.

Daniel Greene

And putting that in perspective, we get 98,000 maintenance work orders per month.

Daniel Greene

For the other crafts, which can include heating, which can include lead personnel, is about $47,000.

Daniel Greene

For vendors, and this is another key number here, it's $221,000.

Daniel Greene

And that's a big part of the one-year plus, two-year plus backlog is the vendor tickets, which I can talk about if you'd like me to.