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Financial incentives could be set up between agencies. Say for example DOT has extra office space in one building and they can rent it out to DSNY for cheap.
by bhousel 13y ago
Financial incentives could be set up between agencies. Say for example DOT has extra office space in one building and they can rent it out to DSNY for cheap. Then DOT gets money they wouldn't otherwise, and DSNY can pay less than they might pay to rent office space in a private building (This is just an example and I don't know if DSNY actually rents, but I know some agencies do).
This works if you can relocate teams of people together (along with their stuff). Also advances in technology help here, as you can scan paperwork into a document management system and virtualize peoples machines so that it matters less where they are actually sitting. The city is doing some of this, but they move slowly.
- jeffdavis 13y agoWhat you just described sounds like a lease, to me. I'm sure that's fairly common. The problem you run into here is: who gets the lease money? Why should the DOT get extra money just because they bought a building that is too big? The root of the problem is that budgets are based on perceived need with no downward pressure. The DOT has every incentive to make the perceived need higher, and leasing out half of their office space is not a good way to do that.
- bhousel 13y agoTo be honest, I don't know much about how this works in NYC government. I think DCAS is the agency that manages all of the city properties. So individual agencies might not have much control over their own space. DCAS might need to be the ones to establish the incentives.