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Request for Proposals
Building Manager for PSAC2
KATHRYN WYLDE
Next mayor must
think globally
A
s the mayoral race heats up, debate is focused on
immediate, local concerns, with virtually no discussion of how the next mayor will ensure the city’s
success as an international center of business, innovation and job creation.While not the meat and
potatoes of political campaigns, longer-term vision is something we should look for in the man or woman who will preside
over the world’s largest city economy.
Across the five boroughs, entrepreneurs and business leaders hope
for a mayor focused on improving
the city’s competitive position across
the globe. That means offering employers a great environment for job
creation and ensuring that New
Yorkers are well prepared to excel in
the jobs of the future. While most
New Yorkers agree with these priorities, they are not front and center in
campaigns. That needs to change.
Today, New York has more people and more private-sector jobs
than at any time in its history. Its
GDP growth is outpacing the nation’s, and it is widely considered the
safest and “greenest” big city in
America. The Partnership for New
York City’s recently released “NYC
Jobs Blueprint” tracks economic
progress over the past decade and expresses our aspirations for continued
growth and expanded economic opportunities. It assesses the challenges the next mayor will encounter
and offers ideas for how business can
collaborate with government, organized labor, civic groups and nonprofits to address them.
The blueprint is ambitious in its
goals: to continue growth across diverse sectors, to reduce unemployment, to increase middle-class jobs
and to do more with less by improving productivity in government,
health and education. Achieving
them will depend on the next mayor’s
Economists cast
their eyes on Sandy
T
he six-month anniversary of Superstorm Sandy
last week received only a modest amount of attention for an event that was supposed to derail the local economy and require years to overcome. In the
week after the storm, The New York Times headlined a major story “Estimate of Economic Losses Now Up to
$50 billion,” and The Wall Street Journal predicted “Long Recovery Ahead for Battered Region.’’ Six months later:
● The economy has recovered. Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, who are writing a
series of very insightful reports on
Sandy, found the storm caused the
temporary loss of 32,000 jobs in the
New York region. Employment
rebounded by the end of the year,
with New Jersey posting in December its best private-sector job
growth since 1986. Now the
rebuilding efforts are boosting
employment, with the New York
Building Congress attributing the
2012 gain in construction jobs in
large part to Sandy.
● Local governments will be made
whole, and maybe even come out
ahead. As the Independent Budget
Office explained in March, the
city sent the federal government a
bill for $6.3 billion for the cost of
cleanup, relief and repair. One
doesn’t have to be a cynic to guess
GREG DAVID
that every possible expense was
counted as storm-related. The feds
will cover every single dime of
that—90% through the Federal
Emergency Management Agency
and the rest through community
block grants.
Since the repairs in many cases
ability to leverage the city’s assets—
its talent, world-class industries and
institutions, and global brand.
The city is a hotbed of business
startups, but the blueprint reveals
that, in contrast to other innovation
hubs, these companies are not expanding here. Since 2002, there has
been no net increase in the number
of city companies with 50 or more
employees. The report proposes actions to encourage business growth
and to make the city more competitive and attractive to job creators.
With respect to education, closer relationships between educators
and employers could scale up
school-to-work partnerships that
make relevant education, work experience and job placement broadly
available to the city’s public and
community college students.
Great world cities, with their
depth and diversity of talent, transportation infrastructure and vast institutional resources, are the essential platform for business in a
globalizing economy. New York’s
rise from the urban crises of the
1970s to the forefront of the innovation economy has been propelled
by the extraordinary vision and collaborative spirit of its public- and
private-sector leaders. We hope that
a new generation of city leaders will
have the vision necessary to keep
that positive momentum going.
The City of New York acting through the Department
of Information Technology and Telecommunications
is seeking a Building Management vendor to provide
turn-key building management, operations and
maintenance of the Public Safety Answering Center II
(PSAC2) facility currently under construction in the
Bronx.
The Request for Proposals can be obtained at
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doitt/html/miscs/buildingman
agement.shtml. There will be a Site Visit and PreProposal Conference on May 21, 2013 and
Proposals are due July 23, 2013.
Kathryn Wylde is president and CEO of the
Partnership for New York City.
will upgrade infrastructure, there is
really an economic gain for the city.
● Private individuals have collected billions, too. The Insurance Informa-
tion Institute reported recently
that 93% of all Sandy claims have
been settled and that $18.8 billion
has been or will soon be distributed
to policyholders. That’s the third
highest ever for a storm, and
doesn’t include payments from the
National Flood Insurance Program.
It is significant that, like the economic fallout estimates, the amount
is well below early projections of
some $25 billion in claims.
Of course, there are individuals
who lost their homes, businesses
that may never recover from being
closed and all those still fighting
with their insurance companies.
And there are shore communities in
the early stages of restoring their
beach areas that may not do well
during the summer tourist season.
All have suffered, and it isn’t any solace to them that others are benefiting at their expense.
But Sandy wasn’t like Katrina,
which destroyed large parts of New
Orleans. While the initial disruption was widespread, the areas affected by the storm long-term are a
relatively small portion of the region. Now the economic impact of
the destruction and disruption is being offset by the massive infusion of
federal and insurance money, and
relatively quickly.
This is Hurricane Economics
101,one of the best-studied issues in
all of economics.
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