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2005 Sloan Public Service Awards F U N D F O R T H E C I T Y O F N E W Y O R K 2005 Sloan Public Service Award F U N D F O R T H E C I T Y O F N E W Y O R K 2005 Sloan Public Service Awards F U N D F O R T H E C I T Y O F N E W Y O R K 2005 Sloan Public Service Award W I N N E R S Sandra Bloodworth Judy James-Hernandez Spiro Kattan Theresa V. Landau Julius C. Spiegel Alan Wa g n e r For 32 years the Fund for the City of New York’s Public Service Awards Program has honored outstanding civil servants whose work performance and commitment to the public transcend not merely the ordinary but the extraordinary — day after day and year after year. In honoring these winners, we also acknowledge the contributions of the many thousands of dedicated public servants who, with integrity and devotion, perform the work that keeps this complex city running. This year’s winners, and the 209 winners from previous years, were selected from among more than 250,000 eligible workers in the mayoral agencies, the Transit and Housing Authorities, the Health and Hospitals Corporation,The City University of New York, district attorneys’ offices and the public libraries. Winners come from all levels and ranks of NewYork City’s government. Sloan Public Service Award Winners demonstrate some or all of the following: extraordinary service delivered with ingenuity, energy and compassion – an expression of commitment far beyond the call of duty; responsiveness to public needs by cutting through red tape or developing more effective methods of service delivery; outstanding and reliable performance both under the pressures of daily routine and in times of crisis; willingness to take risks, if that is what is needed, to improve services or correct abuses or inequities; the ability to adapt to change and provide a continued high standard of service to the public; and upholding the public interest amidst competing interests, pressures and demands. The Fund for the City of New York is grateful to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for its support of this program for the past 20 years. 2005 Sloan Public Service Award Winners “Public art is bringing art to the people, but it also s a ys to the people that t h e y are important and t h a t government thinks t h e y are, t o o . ” SANDRA BLOODWORTH D i r e c t o r, Arts for Tr a n s i t , Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA ) For 17 ye a rs Sandra Bloodwo r th has been implementing one of In addition to attracting artists and overseeing the work of new the less heralded but more astonishing aspects of the turn a ro u n d art installations — 15 to 20 new projects start annually and of New York City’s transit system: the re t u r n of an aesthetic about 40 are in progress at any given time; 152 pieces of art in sensibility to the subway s , giving 4.5 million daily riders 140 stations have been installed since the program began — unexpected encounters with beauty, h i s t o ry and whimsy. An she has played a role in many of the system’s design elements, artist herself, Ms. Bloodworth worked with the Mississippi from railings and Metrocard vending machines to new subway Arts Commission supporting community arts groups there cars. Working against great odds, with immense fiscal con- before coming to New York and eventually to the MTA, straints and decades of indifference to maintenance, she has which had started its Arts for Transit Program about three years charted a return to the original subway founders’ vision of a earlier. Since 1996 she has directed the program which advo- network ennobled by touches of grace and beauty. cated for restoring precious mosaics and terra cotta pieces The MTA’s NYC Transit subway system contains the largest created when the subways were first opened 100 years ago, subway car fleet in the world with 27 interconnected routes introducing new art, commissioning and displaying posters and 468 subway stations. Ms. Bloodworth’s goal is to have art and photographs in subway stations and operating the “Music in every one of them. Under New York” program, which brings live subway station performances to scores of stations weekly. “She is the design conscience of HPD. She is a l w ays looking to improve the project. She is prag m at- ic and understands what is r e a l i s t i c , but she likes to push the envelope. She succeeds by using strong interpersonal skills and by talking about the business of design; sometimes it boils down to economics. She speaks the languag e . ” JUDY JAMES-HERNANDEZ Deputy Director for Design Review, Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Judy Ja m e s - H e r nandez moved from her native Jamaica to a on many jobs. She now plays a leadership role in a team that cramped New York City apartment when she was 16 ye a r s old. ove r sees the design and re building of entire blocks of abandoned Finding her new home confining and illogically and inconve- buildings in some of the city's most depressed are a s , p a r t i c u l a r l y niently laid out, she developed an interest in urban design H a r l e m , M e l rose in the Bronx and Bushwick. She supervises 15 and arc h i t e c t u re that led to undergraduate studies in urban p rograms which create new housing ranging from one-family a f f a i r s and economics and a graduate degree and a career in homes to developments with thousands of units. a rc h i t e c t u re, 25 ye a r s of which have been in HPD. To t - l o t s , off street parking cleverly masked by landscaping, HPD is the largest municipal developer of afford a ble housing building façade materials that blend harmoniously with in the nation. It is currently carrying out a five - year $3 billion n e i g h b o r ing stru c t u res and welcoming public lobbies are not plan to fund the creation and pre s e rvation of 65,000 units. M s . re q u i red by the codes that gove r n new constru c t i o n . M s . Ja m e s - Ja m e s - H e r nandez has wo r ked in HPD in a neighborhood H e r nandez reaches beyond the minimum re q u i rements of her p re s e r vation office in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of job when rev i ewing and discussing with deve l o p e rs their B ro o k l y n ; served as a construction manager learning first- h a n d t a x p ayer-funded housing construction plans. She puts fort h about the intricacies of completing projects on time and with- c o nvincing arguments for more cre a t ive, l iva ble design concepts, in bu d g e t ; m o n i t o re d the rehabilitation of buildings and a lways ensuring that tax dollars are spent wisely on sound c o n t rolled the cost of doing so and interacted with contractors housing that serves the public we l l . “ H u m b l e , s e e m i n g ly behind the scenes, but ultimat e l y responsible for making a lot of good things hap p e n . People are looking at S a n i t a tion as the leader in developing and maintaining a clean fl e e t . T h e y are going way beyond what the EPA requires. He is the one responsible.” SPIRO KAT T A N S u p e r visor of Mechanics, Vehicle Acquisition and Warranty Division, Department of Sanitation (DOS) S p i ro Kattan came to New York City from Jo rdan when he wa s of his superi o rs . In 2000, as the City faced increasing gove r n- a child. He attended local schools here and earned an A s s o c i a t e mental mandates to improve air quality, M r. Kattan was asked to D e g ree in automotive technology from New York City head the newly established A l t e r nate Fuels/Clean Air Progr a m . Technical College. He entered city gove r nment in 1984 as a He has become DOS’s point person in the highly technical, vehicle mechanic for the Parks Depart m e n t , s t aying there for 12 politically sensitive mission of reducing emissions from DOS’ ye a r s . In 1996 he transferred laterally to DOS. A year later he vast fleet and has become an expert , a d vocate and leader, in his applied for a position as an equipment specification writer and own ri g h t , p resenting and sharing information with mu n i c i p a l- got the job developing technical specifications for new ve h i c l e s ities around the country. D O S ’s is the first and only city agency coming on line. D O S, o r i g inally known as the Department of to introduce ethanol-mix fuel to some of its fleet; m o re than S t reet Cleaning, is the wo r l d ’s largest, using 5,700 vehicles to 800 vehicles now run on alternate fuels; another 650 are p e r f o r m its collection, s t reet swe e p i n g , re c y c l i n g , salt and sand equipped with advanced emission contro l s .
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