The department has expressed concern that the installation of the surface mounted facilities whether at t or any time will impede travel on public streets and inconvenience Property Owners and create blight rightofway by the public. So in order to answer to these concerns that dpw had in august of 2005. Dpw ordered 5 and 6 was implemented. This order which is titled regulation for issuing excavation permits in the public rightofway is the purpose of the order to minimize the impact the placement of any sfm facility will have impact on the public rightofway. This establishes rules and regulations anden insures permits affected will be heard before dpw issues any permit. A few things the applicant is required to provide is provide technical report, providing graffiti reports and each facility must display Contact Information of the applicant. So that folks that do receive problems or any other type of issue can call in. Supervisor scott weiner back to that last slide and those requiremen
And i dont know what it is but its at this address. Does 311 have the ability or dpw have the ability to say this is an at t box or mta box . They have some information but not all information because some of these cabinets are older. Where we have information we are able to identify it as an at t box but its not always the case. Supervisor scott weiner the call goes to 311 and do they route all of those tickets to dpw or does it go directly to the owner . It depends on whether or not they know who owns the cabinet. If unknown often times, dpw will go and an abate it because they want to make sure its abated in a timely manner. Supervisor scott weiner when dpw an abates the graffiti is it billed to the owner . Currently for the other utilities i dont know. For at t we did look into that. We are developing a process now where we do invoice. The reason why we have not done that is with specific guidelines at t does have a special coding on boxes and they have special requirements for dpw
Where it takes months and sometimes not at all and many times i hear how dpw have to go out and an abate it. If you hear that its taken months, what happens next . What we first do, we advise the Property Owner to again call 311 and let the operator know that its not been abated and we have instructed at t, hey, you need to go to these specific cabinets and they do. At the end of the hearing they do go and abate it and make sure the sticker is. Thats after the fact that these object ors. Supervisor scott weiner it shouldnt take a hearing. It should be automatic. What i would say, im glad to hear that so dpw is working with at t. It seems to me which is the goal to get the graffiti off quickly. So if dpw then understanding that there are certain needs of these boxes in terms of the way its removed; is dpw learning to do this . Certainly. We are understanding what kind of cleaners are allowed to be placed on the cabinets so the paint is not compromised. Supervisor scott weiner how does i
Dpw or does it go directly to the owner . It depends on whether or not they know who owns the cabinet. If unknown often times, dpw will go and an abate it because they want to make sure its abated in a timely manner. Supervisor scott weiner when dpw an abates the graffiti is it billed to the owner . Currently for the other utilities i dont know. For at t we did look into that. We are developing a process now where we do invoice. The reason why we have not done that is with specific guidelines at t does have a special coding on boxes and they have special requirements for dpw to mitigate the graffiti. Because of that 48hour turn around, dpw is going to paint it and we couldnt implement that invoice ing of that nature. Supervisor scott weiner in your experience so far has at t been an abating within 48 hours . I would say that at t is being challenged and the constituents would very much say that at t is not abating graffiti within the time that its expected. I have heard multiple multip
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