Skip to content
Council Discourse

NYC Council meetings, chaptered and linked by time.

Independent project. Not affiliated with the New York City Council.

Created by Uzair Qadir

Inspired by Vikram Oberoi's City Meetings

Q&A

Zhuang asks how DFTA coordinates with NYCHA on ADA compliance

New York City Council · Oct 27, 2026 · starts 1:57:12 · 1 min 13 sec

Zhuang asks how DFTA coordinates with NYCHA to ensure ADA compliance and make necessary changes. McKenzie says through capital enhancements and available funding. Zhuang asks for details on funding needed, how many centers are compliant, and costs. McKenzie says not at the moment; they would need to assess each site with NYCHA.

Susan Zhuang

How is DFTA coordinated with NITRA Insure ADA compliant?

Susan Zhuang

And make the necessary change.

Lisa Scott McKenzie

Through the capital enhancements.

Lisa Scott McKenzie

And again, if we're able to effect any projects that would allow us to be able to

Lisa Scott McKenzie

to resolve the issue of ADA compliancy, we're willing to do that with the available funding.

Susan Zhuang

And also, do you able to provide us all the detail, how much funding we need, how many center already ADM compliant, how many not, how much the cost?

Lisa Scott McKenzie

Not at the moment.

Lisa Scott McKenzie

Obviously, along with NYCHA, we'd have to look at the number of sites and what are the circumstances at each one of those sites to determine how much each project would cost, and then you would get an overall cost from that.

Eva Trimble

And we can also discuss with the council what that means.

Eva Trimble

There's different levels of compliance with ADA requirements, whether it's wheelchair accessibility or bathroom accessibility.

Eva Trimble

There's different components, and that would require different levels of scope.

Eva Trimble

So we'd have to do a pretty significant assessment of all the centers to determine the full need.

Susan Zhuang

Thank you.