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Banks questions Greene on Maximo priority levels and response times

New York City Council · Sep 22, 2026 · starts 1:20:01 · 3 min 30 sec

Banks asks how Maximo specifies response times and maintenance follow-up for emergency and non-emergency work orders. Greene describes nine priority levels, from one-hour priority nine super hazards to routine priority three work orders, and says superintendents monitor Maximo daily.

Chris Banks

I guess I'm going to move forward with my line of questions, back to my line of questions.

Chris Banks

Understanding Maximo.

Chris Banks

How do work orders typically specify response times for repairs in the Maximo system, including for emergency and non-emergency work orders?

Chris Banks

And also, too, how does the Maximo represent the required practices for maintenance worker to follow up on specific repairs?

Daniel Greene

Thank you, Council Member, for your question.

Daniel Greene

Just bear with me for one moment.

Daniel Greene

Okay.

Daniel Greene

So, and I should say thank you, Chair, for your question.

Daniel Greene

So we have nine priority levels for work orders.

Daniel Greene

And I'll start with the highest priority and I'll move down the group.

Daniel Greene

So we first have what we call a priority nine work order, which is defined as a quote unquote super hazard work order.

Daniel Greene

An example could be an elevator out of order with a passenger stuck or a gas leak.

Daniel Greene

And so the response time for priority nines should be within one hour is what we're going to target for under our procedure manual.

Daniel Greene

For hazard, for the next classes would be a class eight or a hazard, which are really pretty rare class work orders that are priority eight.

Daniel Greene

We're talking about sidewalk shed violations or rubbish violations by the Department of Sanitation.

Daniel Greene

The next category is very important, which is priority seven, which is a 24-hour response period.

Daniel Greene

And this is deemed a critical work order, but we basically on a day-to-day just define it as an emergency.

Daniel Greene

The key thing for priority seven is this leak from above.

Daniel Greene

So leak work orders would be priority sevens, stoppages, priority sevens, CO detectors that are not working, exit signs.

Daniel Greene

in those, but the biggest one that, you know, that we focus really intensively on is the leaks in the similar flooding condition work orders.

Daniel Greene

Priority six is really reserved.

Daniel Greene

The predominant one is mold and mildew.

Daniel Greene

So that was kind of a category that was used under the bias case.

Daniel Greene

So mold and leaks is priority six work orders.

Daniel Greene

Priority five is stoves.

Daniel Greene

Again, not really seen that much.

Daniel Greene

The other big category I'll just skip to it is priority three, which is the routine work orders.

Daniel Greene

So painting, you know, non-emergency type repairs.

Daniel Greene

So Maximo prioritizes every work order.

Daniel Greene

The dashboard that I actually have up right now in Maximo, you can refresh it.

Daniel Greene

Any minute and it will pull up any new ticket that has been created under those priority codes.

Daniel Greene

Our superintendents and assistant superintendents, one of their primary jobs is to monitor Maximo throughout the day to see what tickets are coming in and then assign them to the maintenance workers based on their priority.

Daniel Greene

So when the maintenance...

Chris Banks

Yeah.

Chris Banks

And when it comes to supervision, obligations from supervision, Representative Maximo, how are the supervisory inspections of work orders logged?