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    City Council Holds Another Hearing on the Parks Capital Process

    City Council  •  Parks Capital Process  •  Citywide

    Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver Image Credit: John McCarten

    Other agencies still missing from Council’s hearing on Park’s capital process. On November 12, 2019, the City Council’s Committee on Parks, Committee on Contracts, and Subcommittee on Capital Budget held a joint oversight hearing titled “Improving the Efficiency of Parks Department Capital Projects.” The hearing was chaired respectively by Council Members Peter Koo, Ben Kallos and Vanessa L. Gibson. This hearing was held in order to create a dialogue about the state of the capital process. In Fiscal 2020, the Parks Department has 619 active capital projects and anticipates spending almost $2.7 billion. These numbers have steadily increased since Fiscal 2016.

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    Tags : American Institute of Architects, Ben Kallos, center for urban future, City Council, Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, Council Member Ben Kallos, Council Member Peter Koo, Council Member Vanessa Gibson, Lynn Kelly, mitchell silver, New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, New Yorkers for Parks, Parks Department
    Date: 12/09/2019
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    COMPLETE VIDEO – Open Space Dialogues: Reconstructing the Capital Process

    New Yorkers for Parks  •  Events  •  New York Law School

    Live Panel Discussion Image Credit: Center for New York City Law

    On September 12, 2019, the Center for New York City Law welcomed New Yorkers for Parks back to New York Law School for another installment of their Open Space Dialogues. The event was kicked off by Executive Director of New Yorkers for Parks Lynn B. Kelly, with welcoming remarks by Center for New York City Law’s Associate Director Brian J. Kaszuba, Esq. The topic of yesterday’s Open Space Dialogues was “Reconstructing the Capital Process.”

     

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    Tags : Events, New Yorkers for Parks, NY4P, open space dialogues
    Date: 09/12/2019
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    EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Open Space Dialogues: Reconstructing the Capital Process

    New Yorkers for Parks  •  New York Law School

    Dean Anthony W. Crowell, New York Law School & Lynn B. Kelly, New Yorkers for Parks, Executive Director invite you to join us for:

    Open Space Dialogues: Reconstructing the Capital Process

    Thursday, September 12, 2019 from 6-8PM

    New York Law School

    185 West Broadway, New York, New York 10013

    REGISTER HERE

    Brooklyn Bridge Park, Williamsbridge Oval, Lyons Square Playground, Estella Diggs Park: all were constructed or renovated in major capital projects recently. The ribbon-cutting of a park opening is one of the most joyous sights in New York City, but the process to get to that celebratory moment is sometimes lengthy, expensive, and confusing. When NY4P released a report in 2014 on capital projects management, anecdotal concerns about parks capital projects coalesced into a citywide conversation. Since then, NYC Parks has improved their operations. Alongside, political pressure and the growth of resident-involvement programs, like Participatory Budgeting, have ratcheted up New Yorkers’ expectations of the speed, public involvement, quality, and cost-efficiency of parks capital projects. The time is ripe to consider the successes, as well as the room for improvement, in New York City’s parks capital process.

    • What has NYC Parks done to improve the process? What is outside their scope?
    • What are public expectations of funding, designing, assigning, and building park projects?
    • What can be learned by looking at public-private partnerships?
    • How can the capital process be more equitable?

     

    Presenters

    Susan M. Donoghue, President & Park Administrator, Prospect Park Alliance

    Diane Jackier, Chief of Capital Strategic Initiatives, NYC Parks

    Charles McKinney, Practical Visionary

    Respondents

    Andrew Cohen, Council Member, 11th District (Bronx)

    Celeste Frye, Founder & CEO, Public Works Partners

    Jennifer Godenzo, Senior Director, Participatory Budgeting Project

    Moderator

    Eli Dvorkin, Editorial & Policy Director, Center for an Urban Future

    There is no charge for this event.

    For more information on the individual panels, click here.

     

    This event is graciously hosted by The Center for New York City Law and The Impact Center for Public Interest Law at New York Law School.

    Tags : New Yorkers for Parks, NY4P, open space dialogues
    Date: 08/17/2019
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