Relates to construction and mentoring programs; provides that an agency may establish a mentoring program for small businesses in construction trades; directs the New York city housing authority to establish and implement reasonable procedures to secure meaningful participation of minority and women owned enterprises and small businesses in its procurement process; provides the New York city health and hospitals corporation to use the same measures to enhance mentoring opportunities for small businesses as are available to the city of New York.
Provides a period of probable usefulness for the financing of a leasehold interest in a certain parking garage by the city of White Plains, of twenty years.
Amends the membership of the New York city water board to include the five borough presidents, the mayor or a public member appointed by the mayor and a public member appointed by the governor who has experience in the science of water resource development.
Requires Richmond County to establish a hazards annex to the Richmond county emergency management plan for certain fixed energy storage facilities to ensures that Richmond County is prepared to deal with the potential dangers, such as high-temperature chemical fires, associated with large scale energy storage facilities, including those placed or planned to be placed in assembly district 63.
Prohibits the operation of horse drawn cabs in the city of New York; defines the circumstances under which sale or disposal of a horse shall be deemed humane.
Requires public notice and comment for any contract for goods, services or construction to be awarded by other than competitive sealed bidding or competitive sealed bids from prequalified vendors in excess of a threshold established by the procurement policy board by rule; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Requires specific review procedures for approval of development projects in marshlands by the city planning commission including site plans, surveys, environmental review and community hearings and input.
Directs a study on the feasibility and impact of urban consolidation centers and facilities that combine multiple deliveries from different suppliers to a central location to be delivered inside the service area, and shared use locker technologies as final delivery locations.
Extends the effectiveness of certain provisions of the coordinated construction act for lower Manhattan relating to joint bidding on contracts for public work projects.