Andrea Lee, a member of the educational facilities task force and an education organizer for the Grand Boulevard Federation, said the Bronzeville community on the South Side had been disproportionately affected by school closings and turnarounds.
He cites the Department of Health as part of the "bureaucratic tangle" with 46 councils, 17 boards, 6 institutes, 6 committees, 5 facilities, 2 task forces, 2 offices, 2 advisory panels and 1 work group — 87 entities in all.
Mr. Cuomo's report notes that the Health Department has had at least 87 administrative subgroups imposed upon it by legislation over the years, including 46 councils, 17 boards, 6 institutes, 6 committees, 5 facilities, 2 task forces, 2 offices, 2 advisory panels and a work group.
Focusing on risk-reduction strategies, an interdisciplinary task force revised the facility's surgical site identification policy and improved the surgical scheduling form to highlight information for sided procedures.
A spokesperson for the Guantanamo facility said anyone on the joint task force can take advantage of counseling on the base to deal with depression and stress through the Joint Stress Mitigation and Restoration Team.
But instead of designating specific prisons for closing in his budget — a move that would harden opposition to his budget, perhaps implacably, among lawmakers whose districts are home to the facilities — Mr. Cuomo will appoint a task force of lawmakers and prison officials to come up with a consolidation plan after the budget is passed, people briefed on the plan said.
According to an FDA spokesperson, the task force will work to expedite "facility inspections and drug application assessments so that a facility producing a product in shortage can become operational as soon as possible".
Gen. Edward Leacock, deputy commander of the joint task force that runs the facility holding more than 400 terrorism suspects, said the price could run into the "hundreds of millions".
Some supervisors want to downsize the planned facility and had hoped that Lacey's task force would help chart a path to dramatically reducing the number of mentally ill jail inmates.
The task force should identify critical facilities, like hospitals and schools, and the roads that approach them, to clear first.
Before taking his current position, he served on the state Board of Regents and led a task force studying public-school facilities.
