{"id":53,"date":"2023-01-30T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T15:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shekar-krishnan\/?p=53"},"modified":"2023-07-28T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T14:24:50","slug":"nyc-council-member-shekar-krishnan-parks-committee-members-demand-inclusion-of-labor-voices-in-parks-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shekar-krishnan\/2023\/01\/30\/nyc-council-member-shekar-krishnan-parks-committee-members-demand-inclusion-of-labor-voices-in-parks-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council Member Shekar Krishnan, Parks Committee Members Demand Inclusion of Labor Voices in Parks Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New York, New York&nbsp;<\/em>\u2013 On December 13, New York City Council Member Shekar Krishnan sent a letter to the Commissioner of the Department of Parks and Recreation urging her to allow labor unions to object to contracts awarded by her agency. The letter cited an egregious case where Laborers\u2019 Local 1010 was denied the ability to object to millions in awards to Dragonetti Brothers Landscaping, despite this contractor\u2019s conviction on multiple counts of insurance fraud in October 2022. Ten other members of the City Council\u2019s Committee on Parks and Recreation signed onto the letter in addition to Council Member Krishnan, the Committee\u2019s Chair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Yorkers trust city agencies to be responsible stewards of public resources,&#8221; said&nbsp;<strong>Council Member Shekar Krishnan, Chair of the Committee on Parks and Recreation.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cPreventing labor unions and other members of the public from objecting to city awards to unscrupulous contractors undermines that trust. We can\u2019t build more parks, plant more trees, or help our communities thrive unless we do so with full transparency and accountability. NYC Parks must allow unions to object to bad contracts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaborers Local 1010 applauds Chair Krishnan and members of the City Council Committee on Parks for their leadership in calling for greater accountability and public oversight in the procurement process,&#8221;<strong>&nbsp;said Lowell Barton, Vice President of Laborers\u2019 Local 1010.&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8220;These changes will be critical to promoting greater efficiency, preventing misconduct and fraud, while also advancing career-track jobs and on time and on budget parks projects.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>New York, New York&nbsp;<\/em>\u2013 On December 13, New York City Council Member Shekar Krishnan sent a letter to the Commissioner of the Department of Parks and Recreation urging her to allow labor unions to object to contracts awarded by her agency. The letter cited an egregious case where Laborers\u2019 Local 1010 was denied the ability to object to millions in awards to Dragonetti Brothers Landscaping, despite this contractor\u2019s conviction on multiple counts of insurance fraud in October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shekar-krishnan\/2023\/01\/30\/nyc-council-member-shekar-krishnan-parks-committee-members-demand-inclusion-of-labor-voices-in-parks-contracts\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statements-and-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shekar-krishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shekar-krishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shekar-krishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shekar-krishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shekar-krishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shekar-krishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shekar-krishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shekar-krishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shekar-krishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}