Sandra Ung

This bill would require the Commissioner of Transportation to conduct a one-year study and implement a five-year plan concerning the installation of tactile paving on sidewalks in New York City. The study would involve the identification of high-priority City blocks for installation based on specific criteria, evaluation of best practices from other jurisdictions, consultation with disability advocacy groups, and evaluation of existing City laws regarding sidewalk maintenance and liability. Based on the study’s findings, the Commissioner would develop and implement a plan, to be submitted to the Mayor and Speaker of the Council and posted online, that includes a schedule for installation, a budget, design standards, guidelines on maintenance responsibility and liability, and public outreach strategies. The Commissioner would have to submit annual progress reports on plan implementation to the Mayor and the Speaker and post these reports online.

This bill would require the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) to establish and implement a civil service recruitment campaign targeting former federal civil service employees who were laid off or incentivized to depart the employ of the federal civil. Such a recruitment campaign would include the distribution of information relevant to the process of joining the municipal civil service, including, but not limited to, upcoming civil service examinations, eligibility requirements for fee waivers, and anticipated timelines for hiring. DCAS would be required to post such informational materials on the department’s website in all designated citywide languages, and to conduct an advertising campaign on social media, agency websites, public transportation, and on the radio.

This bill would require the commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection to suspend or revoke a stoop line stand license after the fifth violation of stoop line stand restrictions within a 12-month period. Suspended stoop line stand licenses would be suspended for at least a year. If a license is revoked, the former license holder would be ineligible to apply for a new stoop line stand license for one year.

This bill would require the Commissioner of Consumer and Worker Protection, or where jurisdictionally appropriate, the Commissioner of Small Business Services, to provide notice of an application for a stoop line stand license to the community board and council member in whose district the stoop line stand would be located, within 5 days after the filing of the application. When practicable, the relevant commissioner would then have to allow the community board and council member to submit comments on the application.

This bill would require the Department of Education (DOE) to develop a plan to administer a pilot for an after school Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) preparation program.

This bill would require the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications to submit four quarterly reports to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council on the number of complaints received by the 311 Customer Service Center about residential spaces used as businesses. The report would include the number of complaints disaggregated by the Council district and by a description of the issue. It would also include the status of each complaint.

This bill would require the Department of Environmental Protection to publicly maintain on the Department’s website a report detailing each time a green infrastructure site is inspected or cleaned, and whether such maintenance was taken due to a complaint.

This bill would prohibit a shared electric scooter organization from operating a shared electric scooter system on certain streets in downtown Flushing.

This bill would require the Department of Information and Technology (DoITT) to create a policy that requires all domestic violence-related 311 complaints to be automatically transferred to the New York City Domestic Violence Hotline (DV hotline), and to add a menu option to the 311 telephone menu to allow callers to be automatically connected to the DV hotline.

This bill would require the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications to ensure translation of the 311 mobile application by a human translator into the designated citywide languages, and to make the translated app available for download on the NYC311 website and in app stores, by January 31, 2024. The Department would also be required to have new additions and updates to the app translated within 30 days of such changes, and to report on its compliance with these requirements annually.