A Staten Island home damaged by Sandy is demolished. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Share on Facebook Share on Tumblr PrintThe de Blasio administration is extending a contract with a consultant for Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts by $30 million, Capital has learned.
The extra money will buy the city one more year—through September 2015—with Hagerty Consulting. The company assists City Hall in post-hurricane policy, financial management, and engineering and estimating federal costs for recovery, according to a spokeswoman who handles the city’s storm-rebuilding work.
Hagerty has secured the city $900 million more than was originally expected in federal funding, said the spokeswoman, Amy Spitalnick.
That money, which flowed into the administration’s coffers over several months this year, includes $300 million in reimbursements for the former Rapid Repairs program, which handled immediate shelter needs, such as replacing ruined boilers. (Rapid Repairs was replaced with a different municipal program known as Build it Back.)
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Spitalnick also credited Hagerty with helping the city receive $400 million more than it anticipated for the Rockaway Boardwalk project—money that came from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Another $183 million beyond what the city had budgeted came from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for public hospitals, she added.
As of now, the city is expecting to receive $12.5 billion in federal assistance for ongoing work to repair homes and structures after the massive storm in October 2012.
To date, the city has paid Hagerty $40.2 million. With this amendment to the contract, which will be filed by the end of September, the total tab will be $70.2 million. (The city uses many other outside contractors for Sandy-related work, though Spitalnick said the de Blasio administration hopes to take over some of those tasks in-house.)
“An additional $900 million in recovery and resiliency funds is an outstanding return on investment, and, more importantly, it will go a long way for Sandy-impacted communities around the city,” said Bill Golstein, senior advisor to the mayor for recovery, resilience and infrastructure. “The de Blasio administration is continuing to expedite relief, using these dollars to rebuild stronger and more resiliently.”
Earlier this month, de Blasio reported having renegotiated its Sandy-related case management contracts with URS, Solix and the Center for New York City Neighborhoods for a $61 million savings.
City Councilman Vincent Ignizio, a Staten Island Republican who represents a storm-ravaged district, said the city should spend all it needs on the recovery effort.
Despite his fiscally conservative leanings, Ignizio called the expanded contract with Hagerty “welcome news.”
“Previously there was more need than money,” he said. “If this is able to close the gap to make good on the promises the federal, state and city government made to my constituents than it’s welcome news.”
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