Joann Ariola

This bill would require the Office of Street Vendor Enforcement (OSVE) to create a portal that would allow all agencies enforcing street vending laws and regulations to share enforcement-related information. OSVE would also ensure that each enforcing agency has the capability to verify the authenticity of vendor licenses.

This bill would require the Director of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability to conduct a study to assess the risk of infrastructure failures due to increased flood occurrences and future residential development in areas at risk of flooding. The director would be required to create an infrastructure risk score metric based on infrastructure, flooding, and development factors, and assign risk scores to at least 10 zones of flood risk area. The director would publish the study 24 months after the bill took effect.

This bill would preserve existing sanitation-based civil penalties and other punishment for fire hydrant obstruction violations involving the throwing or piling of snow or ice. This bill would also make clear that higher civil penalties, criminal fines, and other punishment are applicable for other fire hydrant obstruction violations and for violations of newsstand distance requirements from fire hydrants.

The proposed bill would increase the penalties for unreasonable noise emanating from a personal audio device on or in a motor vehicle. The new penalties would range from $200 to $2,100, depending on the number of violations committed within the preceding two years.

This bill would create a Small Business Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Advisory Board to study and make recommendations on potential legislation, regulation, policies, procedures and initiatives for helping small businesses engage in strategic planning to become more resilient to future natural and human-caused disasters and rebuild and reopen after suffering damage during a disaster. In addition to establishing basic procedures and requirements for the composition of the board, the bill would require that the board hold public meetings at least five times annually (once in each borough) and report its findings on May 1 of each year to the Mayor and the Council.

This bill would require the creation of emergency response maps for all city properties, unless exempted by the Commissioner of the Office of Emergency Management. The bill would restrict the organizations allowed to carry out the required mapping to those that meet a set of prescribed qualifications, and would establish technical standards for the maps.

This bill would require an office designated by the mayor to establish and maintain a website displaying fully and partially remote job opportunities. The website would display remote city government jobs. The website would also allow private employers to post remote jobs, provided that the office implements a process to verify that the private employers and job opportunities are legitimate. The bill would also require the office to conduct an outreach program to increase awareness of the website, including targeted outreach to parents of young children. This bill would require an office designated by the mayor to establish and maintain a website displaying fully and partially remote job opportunities. The website would display remote city government jobs. The website would also allow private employers to post remote jobs, provided that the office implements a process to verify that the private employers and job opportunities are legitimate. The bill would also require the office to conduct an outreach program to increase awareness of the website, including targeted outreach to parents of young children.

This bill would require the Fire Commissioner to equip each firefighting vehicle with a handheld computer device that can capture identifying information of a driver or motor vehicle in order to generate a summons concerning Fire Department-enforced parking violations. The Fire Commissioner would be required to consult with the Police Commissioner to select devices that are able to quickly and accurately obtain this information and generate these summonses in compliance with applicable laws and rules.

This bill would require the Commissioner of the Department of Parks and Recreation (Parks) to install security cameras in city parks. Security cameras would be installed in at least 25 percent of all city parks every two years after the local law goes into effect, until all city parks have cameras installed. The Commissioner would consider the number of major felony crime complaints in each park when determining which parks to prioritize. The Commissioner of Parks would work in consultation with the Commissioner of the New York Police Department (NYPD) to install the cameras in areas where crime is likely to occur.

This bill would require the Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with the Chancellor of the City School District, to provide each public middle and high school with an adequate supply of vape detectors. The Chancellor would be required to install, at the Chancellor’s discretion, vape detectors in each public middle and high school and would have the discretion to determine the appropriate number, type, and locations of detectors for each school. Additionally, no later than two years after this proposed law takes effect, the Chancellor would be required to submit to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council and post online a report detailing the progress of vape detector installation in public middle and high schools. This report would need to include the name and borough of each school, whether vape detectors have been installed, the number and locations of any detectors installed, and explanations for any lack of detector installation.