Good morning, and welcome to today's New York City Council vote on the Committee of Parks and Reservation.

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Chair, you may begin.

Thank you.

Uh good morning.

I'm Ty Hankerson, Chair of the Committee on Parks and Rec, and I'd like to welcome all of you to this hearing of the Committee on Parks and Recreation, where we will vote on two bills.

Proposed intros 864A and 880A, which we I'm sorry, which were both considered by this committee on June 16, 2026.

Proposed intro 864A, sponsored by Councilmember Epstein, would require the Parks Department to establish a pilot program that would designate volunteer-led dog run groups that have experience maintaining dog runs to collect dog waste from dog runs under parks jurisdiction for composting.

These designated groups with aid from the parks department when requested would install dog feces collection bins and provide compostable uh dog feces bags for the purposes of composting such waste.

This bill would also require the parks department to report to the mayor and the speaker of the council and post online details regarding the pilot's implementation.

Proposed intro 880A, sponsored by Councilmember Narcisse would require DPR to post signs at the entrances and exits of parks and at certain park facilities, summarizing the rule prohibit prohibiting a person from leaving dog waste on the ground and the associated penalties for a violation.

I'd like to congratulate my colleagues who have proposed these pieces of legislation.

Uh for remarks on her bill.

Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the committee.

Thank you, my colleagues, for waiting for me a little bit.

It requires the parks department to post signs at park entrances and exit and at a certain park facilities, telling people in plain language that they have to pick up after their dog.

And what um and what the penalty I mean penalty is if they don't.

Anyone who walked through a park in my district knows the problem.

Kids sit down in their grass, parents push strollers over it, park staff deal with it every morning, every day, every single hours before most of us are awake.

They have to do their job.

So most dogs owners do the right thing already.

The ones who don't are usually counting on nobody to notice that.

But we are noticing them.

Yes, signs alone.

Uh won't fix this, but they set a clear expectation at the door and give enforcement something to point to.

I urge my colleagues to support this bill.

It is a very important for quality of life issue.

Thank you to address.

Seeing that council member Epstein is not here.

Thank you.

Good morning, William Martin, Committee Clerk, roll call vote committee on parks and recreation.

Both items are coupled.

Chair Hankerson.

I vote aye.

Krishnan.

Aye.

Lee.

Marte.

Aye.

Narcis.

Aye.

Nurse.

I vote aye.

Sanchez.

Aye.

Um.

Aye.

Salam.

I vote aye.

Santos Soso.

Aye.

Thank you.

Morano.

No on eight six four A.

I and the rest.

Following vote.

Both items have been adopted by the committee with introduction 864 adopted with a vote of nine in the affirmative.

One in the negative, no abstentions.

And 880A approved by the committee with 10 in the affirmative.