Mon June 14, 2021 - Northeast Edition
Staten Island Advance/SILive.com
Sandbags meant to protect Tottenville s coastal neighborhoods are shown to be in disrepair on June 2, 2021. (Staten Island Advance/Paul Liotta)
A project intended to protect Staten Island s South Shore coastal communities has been given the go ahead to begin construction this fall after years of delays.
The state-run rejuvenation of the area, known as Living Breakwaters, was funded and set to begin construction in 2018, according to a 2017 report from the Staten Island Advance/SILive.com, but the project laid dormant after that.
A spokesperson of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR), which is overseeing the project, emailed a statement to the Staten Island news outlet announcing that the agency had executed a contract with Weeks Marine, based in Cranford, N.J., and that it expected the project to be complete by 2024.
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When Julissa Gutierrez was appointed New York’s chief diversity officer last summer, she was tasked with registering more MWBEs and reaching the state’s ambitious 30% MWBE contract utilization goal – which New York nearly did, with the state announcing in December that 29.51% of its contracts had been awarded to firms owned by women or minorities in the 2019-2020 fiscal year. An expert on Latino issues and civic engagement, Gutierrez previously held key roles with the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund.
2. Jonnel Doris & Dynishal Gross
Commissioner; Deputy Commissioner, Division of Economic and Financial Opportunity, New York City Small Business Services