the city s roughly 160,000 workers would have to get their first vaccine dose by 5:00 today for be placed on unpaid leave starting on monday. tens of thousands of employees from agencies including the fdny trash collections have already slowed down ahead of today s deadline leading to heaping garbage pileups across the city. all of this raises questions over whether the big apple will face a staffing crisis and what one would look like. joining me with the latest is kathy park. so kathy, what are the city department leaders saying about the mandate and what the city might look like or smell like come monday? reporter: hey, garrett. well, i will begin with the mayor. he s actually hopeful that more people will get vaccinated in the next couple hours. . as you mentioned the mandate is
The City departments, including the Recycling and Trash Collections office and TStation, will be closed to the public on May 31, for the Memorial Day holiday.
PITTSFIELD â A trio of councilors is taking a crack at dealing with one of the cityâs perennial issues â curbside trash collections.
A new ordinance proposed by Councilors Peter Marchetti, Pete White and Earl Persip III would place the cityâs trash pickup under a bag-based âpay-as-you-throwâ system.
If the ordinance is approved, residents would be required to place their garbage inside an official trash bag, either in or out of barrels, before it can be removed by haulers. Residents would receive coupons that would allow them to purchase two 15-gallon bags per week â a total of 104 each year â at cost, which shakes out to about 24 to 28 cents each, Marchetti told The Eagle.
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