Remarks by Silvio Pupo
16 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 1:10:59
“Yeah, thank you so much for this, and also, Irela, for recommending that we prepare the questions ahead of time so that we can make the most of our time here together. And my question, I have a number of them, and I'll try to just go through them quickly. How are you, if at all, incorporating IC change data from the former plan into maybe since the original master plan? How are you incorporating continuous data like the 311 in the IC change data sources and inputs?”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
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“And are the current models accessible for research purposes by researchers, like the different integrated models that have been produced?”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
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“Right, that makes sense. And in the beginning, and one of you mentioned this on the CDM side, that some of the models, and this answers one of the questions we had earlier, are accessible with like open source tools or other more accessible tools so that staff or others are able to take a look or take a peek at that. I'd be very curious to learn more about what those tools and that looks like, just to be able to tinker and explore with that to understand, you know, any other potential improvements or suggestions that we could make going forward. Doctor, you wanted to comment on that?”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
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“All right, thank you so much. That answers that. And I think you already mentioned this, the digital monitoring, reporting, and verification. I know that that's one of, to Chairman's point and my colleague, it is something that I want to support going forward. My question to you is, especially with some of the, I saw for D1 and Alapata, my area, that there's some funding gaps, $20, $30 million. How do you fill some of those gaps, or do you need to access, for example, could you access the new Alapata CRA to help supplement some of those so that we can move the project beyond design? How can…”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
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“I was talking to a real estate developer that's developing something across the street from my house, and they said that they would love to learn more about some of the things like, for example, Chairman, you mentioned the purple roofs, these types of incentives. I'm not sure if we have something like that anywhere on the websites or right now, but they're like, hey, if we could, because they have flooding across going on, if we could adopt these on our side, we'd love to be able to explore what that looks like. And even the consultants were not very clear on like, where to go and how to…”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
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“How do we do that right now, if at all, to be able to kind of make sure we're looking at all these options? And I think this kind of goes back to your point on dovetailing processes to make sure we maximize ROI from once these projects get done.”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
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“I'd like to make a motion, yeah, for the committee to consider allowing the review of the other proposals. I can get a second. We can keep it short and maybe circulate it and just get written comment.”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
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“And thank you, Chairman, for the consideration.”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
- Play at 1:36:42
“Yeah, I did, I brought some of those comments to the work.”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
- Play at 1:36:53
“Right, and right, exactly, the two proposals I had for budget kind of relate to that recommendation on citizen science, and we can even dovetail it to, for example, here in the budget recommendations on.”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
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“I don't know. Let's, how about we cover what we can and what we can't. You know, we sort of limit it to this, you know, let's put a time box.”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
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“Okay, so yeah, to comment on point six, I just want to make sure that we add that the budget recommendation is there for the funding readiness inventory, tree inventory was one of it. And I just want to make sure that the detail is we want to incorporate citizen science entries and everything with stormwater management, data verification, et cetera, to incorporate citizen science in our budget and in the way that we take inventories, digitally monitor, report, and verify, and obviously not just take it at face value, but work with our local universities and institutions to verify and validate…”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
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“I'm talking about the budget. Yeah, just a budget recommendation detail, Chair. But I mean, we have another.”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
- Play at 1:40:21
“specific to the conversation the presentation we just had that it would be helpful i think to map out processes not within resilience and public works and buildings to understand where those processes overlap whether it's storm water or whether it's tree permitting knowing that process i think might might hear you but at the same time i want to respect the will of the committee yeah and you know mr chair i move the budget recommendations as as as”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
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“Any oppose or abstain? Nay. I would only feel comfortable recommending item five, if we incorporate the Feeley Lab research for the right heat and saltwater-related species selection of the trees. And for point number six, if we're clear that part of the goal of the tree-related funding readiness be focused on enabling citizen-led...”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026
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“So I want to congratulate you, Chair, on the stormwater and the sponge resolution. I think this very much aligns with our nature-based thinking for how we can solve some of our issues and where we can make a lot of money and save a lot of money. Also, on the new tree task force conversation, especially since we've been wanting to invite, particularly me, the New York City Parks team to talk about some of the things that they've done in New York. So I want to see if I could liaise that and maybe circulate. The leaf and canopy documents I've written so you could all review them at your own…”
Climate Resilience Committee · Jul 6, 2026