It's Your Money NYC: Hold Your Government Accountable

Funding for '09

$ 15,101,000

Employees

222

Who funds this program?

City

1,251,000 (8%)

Federal

13,850,000 (92%)

How is the money spent?

Salaries

12,398,000 (82%)

Supplies

83,000 (1%)

Property & Equipment

45,000 (Less than 1%)

Contracted Services

1,201,000 (8%)

Other

1,051,000 (7%)

What your money funds:

The Neighborhood Vacant Lot Cleanup Program is an initiative to reduce urban blight in low and moderate-income areas. A federal grant has enabled the Department to create this program to clean vacant lots and the surrounding perimeter, as well as premises of city-owned buildings.

1. The program aims to remove garbage, debris, bulk refuse, weeds, and tires to meet the City's Health Code standards.
2. The Lot Cleaning Division works to help reduce cases and outbreaks of the West Nile Virus by limiting the conditions for mosquitoes to breed, such as dormant pools of water or old tires in lots. The Division works with the Rodent and West Nile Task Force, which is a multi-agency initiative headed by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
3. According to DSNY, in FY07, 6,191 vacant lots were cleaned. Of these, 4,940 were City-owned and 1,251 were privately owned. In FY08, 6,366 lots were cleaned citywide.