On September 10, 2026, at 10:00 AM, the New York City Council’s Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management, chaired by Justin E. Sanchez, held a meeting to vote on Proposed Int. No. 906‑A, a local law addressing dog waste complaints. The committee had previously heard the bill along with related legislation (the Scoop Act) on May 19, 2026, and received testimony from the Department of Sanitation and the public. The proposed introduction was amended by the committee before the final vote.
No public comments or testimony were heard during this meeting; the public comment period occurred at the earlier hearing on May 19, 2026.
Good morning and welcome to today's New York City Council vote for the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management. At this time, we please ask that you silence all electronic devices. Please do not approach the front desk. Chair, ready when you are. And welcome to today's. No, no excitement. Okay. Um tough crowd. Tough crowd. Um welcome to my committee. Um, and welcome to today's hearing, uh, hosted by the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management. The purpose of this hearing is to hold a vote on introduction 906A, sponsored by but um bum me. Um the committee previously heard this bill along with others included in the Scoop Act on a hearing on May 19th, 2026, where it received testimony from representatives of the Department of Sanitation and interested members of the public. Introduction number 906A would require DSNY upon receiving seven or more credible complaints of dog waste on the same city block within a seven-day period to dispatch employees within 14 days to evaluate the block and enforce as appropriate state and local prohibitions against animal waste and public spaces. I will now turn it over to the clerk to take a vote on intro 906A. Thank you. Good morning, William Martin, committee clerk, roll call vote committee on sanitation and solid waste management, Chair Sanchez. I Lewis Hanif. I thank you. Hankerson. Aye. Maloney. Santos Swoso. Aye. Thomas Henry. Aye. Thank you, Councilmember. Wilson. Aye. Vernikov. Aye. With a vote of 11 in the affirmative, zero in the negative, and no abstentions. Item has been approved by the committee. Mr. Chair, there's a full committee. Thank you so much. And I want to give a huge, huge, huge shout out to uh councilmember Virginia Maloney on her birthday today. And with that, the uh committee on sanitation and solid waste management is closed. I don't know. They didn't invite me. Well, I mean, they invited me to go to the event, but I can get invited to the ass. Everyone's invited here now. So are we staying here in asking like no longer? I'm gonna check them out. I was surprised. I was like, oh, I'm gonna go to the next one.