Zhuang asks how much city capital funding goes to OAC repairs
Zhuang asks about large city capital funding for NYCHA, such as $221.9 million for lead abatement in FY27, and whether any is used for OAC repairs. Trimble says those line items are mostly for apartments, not community centers. Community centers primarily benefit from direct allocations from elected officials, not NYCHA's capital plan.
I have some questions about the budget.
A large amount of city capital funding at NYCHA received goes towards lump sum projects such as lead abatement, which funded at $221.9 million in fiscal 2027
adopted budget.
Other examples of these are asbestos abatement.
Comprehensive approach to mold, general construction, and the building improvement.
We want to know which and if there's a large part for capital funding are being used for facilitate repairs in older adult centers.
Thank you, Council Member.
For the most part, those line items you're referencing are for our apartments and not for our community centers.
As I mentioned earlier, the community centers primarily benefit from direct allocations from elected officials in the council or state or federal partners.
They are not part of our capital plan.
So even you get the money, you guys are not going to improve any senior center.
Even in the same building, you are doing second floor, you will not do first floor.
The centers obviously benefit from work we're doing on our buildings.
If we're repairing our roofs, if we're repairing our heating systems, if we're doing building line initiatives for replacement of plumbing stacks, centers in those buildings would benefit from it.
But the...
Those funding lines that you mentioned are primarily for the benefit of our apartments.
Okay.
Will you guys do anything for the community center?
Yeah, I can add to that.
So those are, as Eva mentioned, the direct allocations from city council members, other elected officials are going directly to older adult center comprehensive renovations.
We have completed seven of those, primarily city discretionary funded in the last year and a half.
We have 16 active projects with a total budget of $57 million, and we have six planned that are currently in discussion around funding.
So across those completed active planned, that covers about 30 of our Section 9 older adult centers currently in our portfolio.
But that is separate from the...
The city funding that you mentioned, the city funding lines that you mentioned.