Is Gail coming?

Excuse me, no.

Yeah.

Good morning.

Welcome to New York City.

Council vote for the coming on sanitation and solid waste management.

Please sign all self-electronic devices.

Moving forward, no one is to approach the days.

Chair Sanchez, we are ready to begin.

Good morning, everyone.

Happy budget day.

Oh.

That's why I needed more water.

Alrighty, let's uh start that again.

Good morning, everyone, and happy budget day.

Morning.

Yay.

Um welcome to today's hearing by the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management.

The purpose of this hearing is to hold a vote on introduction 31A, sponsored by Majority Leader Shauna Brayou, and Introduction 92A by Councilmember Gail Brewer.

The committee previously heard these bills at a hearing on May 19, 2026, where it received testimonies from representatives of the Department of Sanitation and interested members of the public.

If you weren't there, you missed out on some riveting action.

Intro number 31A would require DSNY to by December 1st, 2026, designate additional covered establishment to be subject to requirements regarding separation and disposal of organic waste.

Any establishment so designated would be required to comply with such requirements on the ladder of June 1st, 2027, or when the establishment's commercial waste zone goes into effect.

The bill would also require commercial waste zone awardee carters to provide information on the donation of excess edible food to any establishment receiving organic waste collection.

I will now read a statement on behalf of council member majority leader Abreu.

Thank you, Chair Sanchez.

You're welcome for allowing me to speak on my bill.

You have a lovely vase.

Um Intro 31A would require the Department of Sanitation to review and designate additional categories of businesses that may be subject to organic waste separation and disposal requirements.

This will help ensure more establishments participate in our organic collections recycling system and practice responsible waste management.

This bill builds on the growing success of our city's organic waste system, helping reduce strain on landfill and in support our environmental goals.

Households are now required to separate the organic waste and businesses should be held to the same standard.

This bill is not just good for the environment, it's great, but also good for businesses bottom lines by reducing waste disposal costs under the city's current commercial waste zone rules, carters that collect commercial waste must charge less for organic waste collection than general refuse collection, requiring new types of establishments to separate organics will help save their businesses money as more of their waste is collected at the mandated lower rates.

Ultimately, it will cost businesses less to do the right thing for our environment.

Intro 31A will help foster a more sustainable and environmental friendly commercial waste system in our city, and I look forward to working with my colleagues to move this bill forward.

I don't know why there's a pause there, but there is, so I'll say it out loud.

Pause.

Alright, uh, I want to say uh thank you to Councilmember Gail Brewer for joining us.

Um, and that brings us to intro 92A, which would permit the Department of Transportation, DSNY, and any department designated by DSNY to place a sticker no larger than eight and a half by eleven inches on the window of any motor vehicle as a method of enforcing alternate side parking rules.

It will be sticky, you will hate it, it will suck.

Move your cars.

I will now turn it over to Councilmember Brewer to provide a statement on her bill.

Councilmember Bernikoff is very nice to switch for a minute.

So I can even though she hates the stickers.

So thank you very much, uh, Mr.

Chair.

I have to say, '87.

Sanitation started placing day glow green stickers on vehicles.

Those who had repeated alternate side violations.

That was because things were not being cleaned on the street.

These stickers are credited as one of the city's single most effective tools for helping keep our streets clean for all New Yorkers.

Then after the council, and I must admit, I think I probably voted for it, banned the stickers in 2012.

Too many people make the following calculation.

Preventing the cleaning of more than 3,000 miles of streets.

Street cleaning works when cars move, it doesn't work otherwise.

The sanitation sweepers cannot clean the kerbling.

They weave in and out of park cars while litter, debris, and grime build up.

So I believe it's time to restore this tool to improve compliance and help keep streets clean for all New Yorkers.

I have to say it would have been great if the state passed the cameras on the sanitation sweepers.

Norman Steisel, a former member of the commissioner of sanitation, wrote in the Daily News yesterday that's what he would prefer, but it did not happen.

We need the stickers.

What I say is tell me another way to move those damn cars.

And I also say that if the Albany finally passes the cameras whenever, then this would only be for the most egregious cars.

You don't pay extra for a sticker, you just can't get the damn thing off, and so you will be targeted as you did not move your car.

Thank you very much.

And I love on my block to put stickers up, because nobody moves.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Brewer.

And with that, I will now turn it over to the clerk to take the vote on entrose 31A and 92A.

Thank you, William Martin, Committee Clerk, roll call vote committee on sanitation and solid waste management.

Both items are coupled.

Chair Sanchez.

Aye.

Aye.

Hanif.

Aye.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Ong.

Thank you.

Juang.

Aye.

Hankerson.

Aye.

Maloney.

Aye.

Santos Swosto.

Aye.

Thank you.

Thomas Henry.

Aye.

Wilson.

Aye.

Vernikov.

No and all.

With a vote of 10 in the affirmative, one of the negative and no abstentions.

Both items have been adopted by the committee.

Mr.

Chair, that is a full committee.

Thank you, everyone.

And I will see my members of the sanitation committee tomorrow for our next hearing.

Thank you, everyone.