UPDATE ON EMERGENCY SPENDING FOR SANDY RESPONSE
The Office of City Comptroller John C. Liu today provided an update on City agency emergency spending approved for the response, recovery and relief efforts associated with Hurricane Sandy. These numbers can be attributed to a spokesman for City Comptroller John C. Liu.
Total as of noon today – $120.9 million.
Parks – $30,362,965 for repair of damages to various beaches (Rockaway, Manhattan Beach, Coney Island, Shore Parkway)
Sanitation - $26,000,000 for heavy equipment and staff to augment DSNY, replacement disposal capacity, heavy duty refuse clean up
DOT – $21,700,000 for repairs to be done at escalators and elevators and electrical systems at St. George and Whitehall Street Staten Island Ferry Terminals, to procure construction services for the Battery Park underpass and West Street underpass
DEP - $15,600,000 for pumping equipment and work at wastewater treatment plants, satellite phones
DDC - $12,000,000 for heavy equipment and construction related services
DCAS - $8,865,400 in heavy equipment and vehicles, computers and other equipment, maintenance repair and operation supplies to city agencies providing life saving operations, portable boilers and generator procurement, fuel trucks
OEM - $4,846,500 million for a host of goods – oxygen, ambulances, ambulettes, buses, MREs, livery cars, sandbags, vacuum trucks, IT equipment
DOB - $750,000 for structural engineers
NYPD - $700,163 for aviation fuel as well as repairs to damaged dock facilities, precinct repairs due to flooding
HPD - $75,500 for demolition
DoITT - $30,000 for laptops to use at City Hall
Chief Medical Examiner - $16,050 disaster preparedness consulting in Staten Island
Note: Comptroller Liu's office is continuing to work with City agencies to help ensure they have the resources needed to assist New Yorkers suffering the effects of Hurricane Sandy, as well as the tools to rebuild the most damaged parts of our City. Since before the hurricane struck, our office has been in close coordination with City Hall on these issues.
These numbers represent "not to exceed" totals for agencies to procure goods and services. They do not include overtime for City employees.