Statement Regarding the Emergency Meeting of the Board Held on June 5, 2023
For immediate release: June 5, 2023
Five members of the Board of Correction convened an Emergency Board Meeting this afternoon
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List of regular party candidates for City elective office who did not, within ten days after the required date for filing such reports, file an annual disclosure report.
The Board of Correction ("BOC") is saddened to hear of Mr. Rubu Zhao's passing, which marks the second death in New York City Department of Correction ("DOC") custody in 2023. Mr. Zhao, 52, died on May 16, 2023, at approximately 11:51 pm at Elmhurst Hospital.
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Can you imagine starting your day opening your cabinet at home and seeing a rat inside? You will think about that all day, if not all year. You'll never touch that cabinet again without reflecting on it. This is a quality of life issue and a health issue that we're going to tackle.
Thank you so much, deputy mayor, and the entire team, and our Council persons that are here in Harlem, where we are rolling out a $3.5 million initiative on the rat mitigation zone to add with some of the other rat mitigation zones.
NYC Sanitation, in collaboration with the Partnership for New York City, launched a substantial marketing campaign to shame these "garbage" New Yorkers – litterers and dog-poopetrators – once and for all. This is the first major anti-littering campaign by DSNY in at least 15 years.