Preliminary REP pages 181-189
Plan area: Infrastructure and Environment
NYC Parks oversees 30,000 acres of parkland serving the city's diverse population. Parks are essential to improving the health, well-being, safety, and resilience of the city. However, park investment has historically been inequitable, with communities of color often having access to parks in poorer condition and with fewer amenities. NYC Parks' equity goals focus on targeted investments in underserved neighborhoods, building a diverse workforce, expanding free programming, and increasing engagement in communities of color.
Parks had a 30% goal for M/WBE utilization (which captures both contracts awarded directly awarded by Parks and those awarded by Parks’ contractors to M/WBE subcontractors) and will continue to implement and evaluate goals going forward to ensure they are consistent with federal, state, and local law
Population focus: M/WBE owners
Goal ID: NYCParks-G01
Building on our value of engaging communities in our public input processes, empower historically underserved communities by centering their priorities in the capital design process of the Community Parks Initiative (CPI) and other capital projects to improve community well-being
Population focus: Older adults; Underserved communities
Geographic focus: Underserved neighborhoods (unspecified)
Goal ID: NYCParks-G02
Connect New Yorkers in need with NYC Parks’ public programs to learn new skills, grow capacity, and to build social connections for improved health and well-being
Population focus: General
Goal ID: NYCParks-G03
Empower New Yorkers with opportunities to engage with the care of their parks, to improve their own health and that of their parks, focused on neighborhoods in need
Population focus: General
Goal ID: NYCParks-G04
Establish human capital practices that support and accelerate equitable hiring and staffing in close collaboration with senior leadership
Population focus: Older adults
Goal ID: NYCParks-G05
Support existing and cultivate new park partner groups through building capacity and providing technical assistance and resources to foster sustained civic engagement in parks within underserved communities
Population focus: Underserved communities
Geographic focus: Underserved neighborhoods (unspecified)
Goal ID: NYCParks-G06
Invest $100M in capital to 20 Community Park Initiative sites, building on an equity driven investment program that prioritizes funding to transform and renovate underinvested greenspaces in underserved communities
Population focus: Underserved communities
Geographic focus: Underserved neighborhoods (unspecified)
Goal ID: NYCParks-G07
Complete Vital Parks for All initial investment projects of $3.2B, targeting capital investments in neighborhoods most in need to ensure their parks serve as resources for strengthening health, environment and communities, focused on DACs, EJ, TRIE and areas with high levels of gun violence
Population focus: General
Geographic focus: TRIE priority neighborhoods
Goal ID: NYCParks-G08
Leverage the principle of equity in the assessment of outstanding needs for restoring aging facilities so that any remaining sites of historic disinvestment within underserved communities are prioritized
Population focus: Older adults; Underserved communities
Geographic focus: Underserved neighborhoods (unspecified)
Goal ID: NYCParks-G09
