NYC Hall Update 12-14-2022

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) Expands Special Education in Preschool

Hundreds of New Preschool Seats will be available to Special Education Students, Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks announced Tuesday, seeking to address a persistent lack of Access to Free Pre-K and 3-K for Students with Disabilities. There will be 800 more Special Education Preschool seats available, including 400 to be in place by January, and another 400 to be added in the Spring. “For far too long, our students with disabilities have struggled in a system that wasn’t fully able to meet them where they are. It wasn’t fair, and it was wrong.” Adams said at a Harlem Preschool.

Police Have Removed Over 1,300 ‘Emotionally Disturbed People’ from Transit in 2022

In the first 11 months of the year, the NYPD removed 1,300 People suffering symptoms of Mental Illness from the City's Transit system, often against their will. The City is Unable or Unwilling to say what happened to them next. >Dealing with people who have mental health illnesses must be a focus of any plan moving forward, Mayor Eric Adams said at an October 22nd Announcement, of a New Subway Safety Campaign, with Governor Kathy Hochul (D), dubbed Cops, Cameras, and Care, a Plan to flood the Subways with Officers, Surveillance Cameras, and Outreach Workers.

Close Rikers Island

Correction Officials say they may have too many New Yorkers to Incarcerate. Correction Officials are forecasting that the Population at the dangerous Rikers Island Complex, will balloon in the coming years, seriously complicating the Legal Mandate to Close the jJils there by 2027. The Jailed Population, which was at 5,940 last month, is growing, and an internal Correction Department Forecast, indicates the Population will be higher than 7,000 in less than Two years, according to Commissioner Louis Molina. The problem: In order for Rikers to Close and Pre-Trial Detainees to be moved to Four smaller Jails in the Boroughs, as a 2019 Law requires, there cannot be more than 3,300 People Incarcerated.

Nw York City Detainee Death Rate is highest in 25 years.

New Yoirk City Launches Long-Awaited Containerized Residential Trash Pilot

The Department of Sanitation at last, began Collecting Household Trash from Containers along a single Hells Kitchen Block on Tuesday, bringing the Big Apple One small but important step closer to Freeing Pedestrians from the Oppression of mountains of Garbage Bags covering the Sidewalk.

The City is looking at providing Sealed Containers and possablity of later pickup, so Garbage Bags are put out latter in the day.










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