Ty Hankerson

This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to submit to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council, and post online, an annual report detailing participation by New York City households in the HPD-administered Housing Choice Voucher Homeownership Program (HCVHP). It would require HPD to report for the previous calendar year on the number of households that participated in the HPD-administered Housing Choice Voucher Program, the number of households eligible for HCVHP, the number of households that participated in HCVHP, and the number of successful closings on homes through HCVHP. It would require this information to be reported by borough, certain income bands, household structure, and race. It would also direct HPD to seek and report corresponding information from New York State Homes and Community Renewal.

This bill would require the Department of Transportation (“DOT”) to regularly study lighting conditions under elevated structures and, if there is insufficient lighting, install pedestrian lighting fixtures to sufficiently light the sidewalk underneath the structure, if feasible. This bill would also require DOT to report on lighting conditions and the installation of lighting.

This bill would require the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), to submit an annual report that would analyze how the contracting of various parks services affects the performance of its functions. The report would include the number of full-time and part-time staff employed by DPR and assess the department’s contracting requirements, whether the staff headcount is sufficient to meet the needs of the department, and whether it would be feasible to supplement or replace certain contracted work with the addition of more full-time or part-time staff employed by the department.

This bill would prohibit retailers that sell smoking paraphernalia, including water pipes, rolling papers, electronic cigarette components, and smoking accessories from operating within 500 feet of a school.

This bill would require the Department of Buildings to inspect worksites with major renovations that have been issued stop work orders at least once every two weeks until the violating condition has been corrected. The inspections must be conducted jointly by at least one inspector from the unit that issued the stop work order, and at least two additional inspectors from different but related units within the Department of Buildings.

This bill would prohibit the sale of tax liens on community infrastructure properties and require the establishment of a program for the enforcement of tax liens on such properties to include: the offering of installment agreements for the payment of outstanding debts made a lien on such properties; the provision of counseling services to assist owners of such properties in resolving such debts, including referrals for government assistance; and appropriate education and outreach to owners and operators of such properties.

This bill would require the applicants for permits related to the construction of new buildings and the alteration or demolition of existing buildings to submit to the Department of Buildings (“DOB”) a construction waste management and disposal plan, outlining measures to ensure trade waste generated by such work is properly disposed. Prior to the sign-off of a permit, this bill would require DOB, in conjunction with the Department of Sanitation and Department of Environmental Protection, to verify the permit holder’s compliance with such plan. Finally, this bill would allow DOB to issue a minimum civil penalty of $1,000 for failure to comply with the plan, and allow DOB and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection to suspend or revoke contractor licenses for repeated failure to adhere to such plans.

This bill would require the Department of Sanitation, in collaboration with the Departments of Transportation and Information Technology and Telecommunications, to publish, preserve, and maintain a public-facing website of historical and current snow plowing operations data.

This bill would bar the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) from removing public litter baskets solely on the basis that they were used for illegal dumping. It would also require that DSNY give notice to Council Members and community boards prior to removing any public litter basket in their districts. Council Members and community boards would have 10 business days to comment on the proposed removal, and DSNY would have to consider the comments before proceeding with removal. Finally, DSNY would need to submit quarterly to the Mayor, Speaker of the Council, and relevant community board, and post online, a report on, in part, the number of public litter baskets maintained at the end of the previous quarter, the number of baskets removed in the previous quarter, the reasons any baskets were removed, and the number of littering complaints received by DSNY in a period of time before and after a basket’s removal.