Santosuosso asks whether applicants get process expectations

But with council members, you know, it is something that is continuing on.

There is not a– and I think in a previous iteration, there was a limit on the number of bouncy houses.

That is not something that we're utilizing.

And we've lowered the capacity to 200.

So I hope that that's helpful.

But, you know, I think our team, our public programs team that does bouncing houses internally, you know, we're starting to see the instances tick up where, you know, not certainly through a council member's office, but just when people were having them.

There were accidents that seemed preventable, and we wanted to try and have a little bit more kind of regulation around it.

No, I appreciate that, and my staff will be very happy to hear that.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

I also want to mention that we've been joined by Councilmember Santosuoso, Krishnan,

Ong online and I think that's it.

All right.

I'm going to turn it over to Councilmember Sinsuosa.

Thank you, Chair, and good morning.

Thank you for being here.

Prior to, well, many years before becoming a council member, I worked at a community-based organization where I had the unfortunate responsibility of having to apply for all of our permits when we were having events in parks and whatnot.

And, you know, as always, just a general love for the park staff and all that they do with the limited resources that we will have until the parks budget gets to 1% of the budget, which I still think we should be fighting for every day.

But I do have two questions related to the process.

So the first is, I know you all ask for 21 days in advance.

Sometimes that 21 days, it takes a full 21 days for the permit to be approved.

Sometimes it does not.

Is there a...

An expectation set when you start working with an organization saying, here's the outline of what this permitting process looks like, here's the stage we're in now, sort of here's what you can expect as you go through this process?

So thank you very much for the question.

I think when someone applies for a permit,

they're going to get a response from the agency the same day, acknowledging receipt of that permit and letting them know that we're working on processing.

There is some ancillary information that talks about what comes next, I believe.

But I think depending on the applicant, if it's an applicant that's less familiar with the process, it may not be quite as much.

One thing that we have done over the last year is we've done this kind of like roadshow where we've met with partner groups and with other stakeholders who are producing events.

And it's the team from Citywide.

It's the borough team.

the park managers, it's the borough commissioner.

We really try to come with everybody from the agency who is involved in events to answer questions.

And we're happy to do that with any of your stakeholders.

We're happy to do it in person.

We're happy to do it remotely, whatever you find to be convenient.

And if through that process,

There's other things that we could do.