Hankerson asks if Parks tracks promoters with bad history

But I do have a follow-up to that.

If an event is permitted within a park and they see another event happening that is unpermitted or is making use of bouncy houses or...

or things that they're not supposed to.

Is there a number for them to call to complain?

I'm only asking because recently we received a phone call from an organization that, for lack of a better term, went through hell to get a permit.

And then, you know, they were denied certain things like a bouncy house, et cetera.

And then they were in the park on the day of their event, and there was another event happening that all of the works.

And they called me and said, you know, what can you do?

And I wasn't really sure what to tell them.

They wanted to know who they could call other than 311.

Is there a line for them to call?

Is there any type of notification in the park that says, hey, if you need assistance with something, call this number?

Thank you for that question.

So that's a I'm really sorry to hear that that happened.

That's disappointing.

You know, we I think we informally we have a system.

But, you know, I couldn't tell you that if you if you ask this question of like three other people that you wouldn't get, you know, three slightly different answers.

So, like, I think you're you're raising a point that we could be, you know, we could be stronger.

But I think, you know, what I would suggest is.

The person that issued their permit, if they're in Queens, you know, the Queens team, maybe it was, they were working with Mira or others,

They would call them, and then we would get in touch with our parks enforcement and speak to the event organizer.

But I think you raise a point of something that we should look into more and see what kind of system we could develop, because that's very disappointing.

And I apologize on behalf of the agency for that experience.

No, I appreciate that.

And I'd love, by limited experience, to, if possible, be part of that conversation on what we can do, because it does happen quite often.

Does the department keep track of event promoters that have some sort of negative history attached to their event promotions?

And if so, how does that factor weigh in in determining whether they are approved for a permit?

Thank you for that question.

We have a lot of events that are permitted throughout our parks, as you know.

And there is not, as far as I know, there is not in the rules, there is not language related to kind of like

who has a history or who doesn't have a history of kind of problematic events.

So it's not something that we can point to in the rules.

I can tell you that we do rely on firsthand experience when there are instances.

When there are instances of an event holder that has clearly not met the requirements of their contract, when they do have a contract.