BetaNYC · Council District 10

Your district,
on the record.

Grounded AI over New York City's own open data. Built by BetaNYC, in the open.

Prepared for Council Member Carmen N. De La Rosa and staff. Washington Heights and Inwood. Every figure carries the date it was verified. Six questions, then we want to hear yours.

Opening

"Rather than tell you what this does, I'm going to ask it six questions your office actually gets, and show you what a web search returns for the same question."

⚠️ In 311 queries the district is the string '10'. Two digits, so the zero-padding trap that bites districts 1–9 does not apply here. It does bite the District 4 script.

⚠️ In budget data, query her by council_member_id 7806 (her Legistar PersonId). The surname De La Rosa, with spaces, returns the same rows today.

Runtime is about 20 minutes. To land in 12, cut Act 5 and the digital-equity thread. Never cut the profile or Act 4.

This district has a genuinely strong through-line. She chairs the Committee on Technology, she co-sponsored the broadband access law that went through it, and she funds four digital-inclusion awards. That is the meeting, if you want one.

What we plugged in

Seven connectors, straight into
the city's own records.

Council legislationBills, hearings, sponsors, votes 21,743 bills

Charter, Code & RulesFull text, by section 22,185 sections

City budgetCouncil discretionary expense designations 156,544 designations · FY2009–FY2027

311Service requests, status, calendar live

The City RecordProcurement and public notices live

NY State legislationBills, laws, members 231,107 bills

Open data catalogAny dataset on the portal SoQL

A web search cannot reach inside a portal's search form. Crawlers see the search box, not the results.
It cannot join four of these in one question.
It cannot hand you a citation you can put in a letter.
It cannot tell you when the answer last changed.

Ninety seconds, then move

Do not explain what MCP is. Nobody in a council office needs the plumbing. Name the seven, read the four bullets, get into the questions.

⚠️ Citywide spending (Checkbook NYC) is not on this slide, but it is working as of 2026-10-19; re-test before the meeting. It was blocked by bot protection from about 2026-07-16. On 2026-10-19 search_spending returned 32 FY2026 payments to Community League of the Heights, with no error, so the allocation-to-check step in Act 3 is back (see that slide's notes). If it is blocked again, the response carries total_records: 0 and an error field. Read the error before the count: a zero with an error is not "no payments."

⚠️ The NYS bill count (231,107) was last checked 2026-07-27; no tool reports a total. The Council events count was dropped because no tool reports one either.

⚠️ Don't say "Google" from the podium unless you re-ran it on Google yourself. These were run through a general web search.

Start with the easy one

Who is the member?

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A web search run 2026-10-19

Carmen De La Rosawikipedia.org
51 Council Members, 52 Weeks: District 10wnycstudios.org
A Q&A with Council Member Carmen De La Rosapoliticsny.com · April 2026
Carmen N. De La Rosaintro.nyc
"Chair of the City Council Labor Committee" — and, same answer, "Technology (chair)"one summary, two chairmanships

Good sources. But one answer named two different committee chairmanships.

The connector verified 2026-10-19

PersonId 7806 · active · District10@council.nyc.govthe key that joins to votes, funding and committees
Committee on Technology — listed contact, 5 membersindependently confirmed · BodyContactNameId 7806
Civil Service and Labor → Shirley Aldebol, D13so the "Labor chair" result is not current
Record last modified 2021-11-03 — before she took officethe record says how old it is; the web page doesn't

One authoritative answer, and a date telling you how much to trust it.

Also here get_council_member any member list_committees all 73 bodies get_committee roster and volume

The committee contradiction is the whole slide. Work it slowly.

One answer, two chairmanships. Re-run 2026-10-19, the search summary said she is "chair of the City Council Labor Committee," then listed "Technology (chair)" among her other committees. The votes search the same evening also called her the Labor chair. It also adds Marble Hill to the district, which we have not verified.

Legistar settles it, and names the other person. get_committee("Committee on Technology") returns BodyContactNameId: 7806 — her. get_committee("Committee on Civil Service and Labor") returns Shirley Aldebol, District 13.

"One of those was right. The problem isn't that a search engine was wrong, it's that nothing on the page told you which one to believe, or as of when."

⚠️ Do not say the web "made it up." Committee chairs change between sessions, and she may well have chaired Labor previously. The honest claim is that the web result is undated and Legistar is current. That distinction is the entire product.

⚠️ Say "listed contact," not "Chair." The field is BodyContactNameId, conventionally the chair for council committees, but it does not literally say chair.

Her Legistar record was last modified 2021-11-03 — before she was seated in January 2022. Nearly five years stale, and the record still says so.

Act 1 Your district, right now

What are people calling about?

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A web search run 2026-10-19

311 agency: top issues, 2018, citywidecouncil.nyc.gov
Council study: "surprising number" of 311 requests not addressedcbsnews.com
City Launches Online Map of 311 Complaints — DNAinfo, 2011dnainfo.com
Int 0478-2026 — a bill that would require district reports; still in committeeintro.nyc
Complaints pages — two community boards in other boroughsnyc.gov · Staten Island CB3, Brooklyn CB4

One citywide number, from 2018. Nothing for your district this month.

The connector 311 verified 2026-10-19

Noise – Street/Sidewalk

1,217

Noise – Residential

952

Illegal Parking

840

Unsanitary Condition

578

Heat/Hot Water

517

8,295 requests, one district, one 30-day window.

Also here get_calendar alternate-side parking and collection get_service_request one request by number socrata any dataset on the portal

Act 1

The search returns pages about 311, not 311 numbers. The only figure is a 2018 citywide count on the Council's own 311 page, not broken out by district. The rest is a 2011 map story, a CBS study, a bill that would one day require district reports, and two other community boards' complaint pages. The search summary itself says it found no current district data.

"It told me where I might look. It didn't look."

Where to linger on the right. Heat season started October 1, and housing-condition complaints have arrived: Unsanitary Condition (578), Heat/Hot Water (517), Plumbing (361, #6), Paint/Plaster (338, #7) and Water Leak (212, #9) are all in the top ten. If the office reacts, follow it — that leads into Act 4.

⚠️ Don't editorialize past the data. This measures what residents called 311 about, which is complaint behavior as much as underlying conditions.

⚠️ Counts pulled 2026-10-19 (requests created 2026-09-19 to 2026-10-18). Re-run the morning of the meeting; they move week to week.

⚠️ Act 1's roll-up is served by Socrata against the 311 dataset (erm2-nwe9), not by the 311 MCP. Don't announce "the 311 MCP" for this act. Check is_sample — if true, the numbers are meaningless.

Act 2 Your roll call

One returns pages about you.
The other returns your votes.

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A web search run 2026-10-19

Carmen De La Rosa · NYC's 10th Council districtwikipedia.org
De La Rosa explains her vote to override the mayor's vetoescitymeetings.nyc · 2024-01-30
De La Rosa explains her vote on fire safety and DOT oversightcitymeetings.nyc · 2024-12-19
Dominates, Wins District 10 Reelectionwestsidespirit.com · votes for her, not by her
10th Council Districtnyc.gov · Green Book

Two votes, from meeting recaps. Not a record.

The connector verified 2026-10-19

3,134 votes on 2,884 matters, each with a file numbermatters introduced January 2022 through October 2026
Res 0551-2026 — Expense budget designationsAffirmative · the resolution behind Act 3
Res 0542-2026 — FY2027 capital budget, §254Affirmative
LU 0111-2026 — 511 West 171st Street, her districtAffirmative · Council District 10
Int 0972-2026 — Unincorporated business tax creditAffirmative · intro.nyc/0972-2026

Her whole record, every one citable. Plus the full 51-member split on any matter.

Also here co_sponsors who she signs on with most get_bill_history every action, in order vote_breakdown all 51 members on any matter

Act 2

Be fair to the left column. citymeetings.nyc is a civic-tech peer, and it surfaces two real votes with her own explanation of each. That is good work. It is two votes, not a record.

"The web found two votes you talked about. This has every vote you've cast since you took office."

⚠️ get_voting_record defaults to the 50 newest votes and returns no total. An unbounded call shows October 2026 land-use items, not the rows on this slide. Pass a large limit and check you got fewer rows than you asked for, or ask for a specific matter ("how did she vote on Res 0551-2026?"). Rows repeat across committee and full council, so dedupe by file_number before saying a count aloud.

Full record, verified 2026-10-19: 3,134 votes on 2,884 distinct matters, introduced 2022-01-20 through 2026-10-08. 3,069 Affirmative, 9 Negative, 54 Absent, 1 Abstain.

LU 0111-2026 is her own district — the 511 West 171st Street ANCP cluster, Council District 10. Good one to linger on.

⚠️ Int 0983-2026 is the elected-official compensation bill. She voted Affirmative. Public record, but leading with a member's own pay raise in their office reads as a gotcha. Drill into Res 0551 or LU 0111 instead unless asked. vote_breakdown("Int 0983-2026") returns 51 recorded, 42-6-1, with six named negatives if you want to show the split.

⚠️ Her nine No votes include the FY2024 budget resolutions (Res 0706 through 0709-2023). Public record, but do not lead with them. Same rule as Int 0983. Most Council votes are consensus items, so do not characterize any of it as a voting philosophy.

⚠️ Do NOT cite PersonUsedSponsorFlag. It reads 0 on her record, and she is one of 28 sponsors on Int 1122-2024. It does not mean what its name suggests. Retracted 2026-07-21.

Act 3 Your funding

Every award,
by name.

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A web search run 2026-10-19

Transparency Resolution 2, August 13, 2026council.nyc.gov · PDF
Transparency Resolution 1, July 16, 2026council.nyc.gov · PDF
De La Rosa explains her vote on the NYC budgetcitymeetings.nyc · 2024
FY27 project, Santa Rosa — a member of Congress, Californiagonzalez.house.gov
FY2027 Funding Opportunities — Phil Wong, another membercouncil.nyc.gov

Her line items are in there, scattered across two Council PDFs. No total.

The connector verified live 2026-10-19

$1,777,000

FY2027 cleared

151

Awards cleared
+46 pending, $481,000

$87,000	Department of Sanitation	NYC Cleanup, Council District 10
$65,000	Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation	Domestic Violence and Empowerment
$55,000	Center for Employment Opportunities	NYC Cleanup, Council District 10
$50,000	Dominican Women's Development Center	Domestic Violence and Empowerment

By name, initiative, agency, and whether it has cleared.

Also here search_disclosure_awards by EIN: one org across all members search_council_capital Council-funded capital, by district compare_capital_to_omb Council list vs OMB, by budget line

Act 3

Be fair to the left column. Re-run 2026-10-19, the search finds the Council's own Transparency Resolution PDFs (July 16 and August 13, 2026), and its summary quotes some of her FY2027 items by name, such as Latino Film Market and Centro Civico Cultural Dominicano. They are the real source. The point is the work left over: her lines are mixed in with every other member's, some are changes rather than awards, and its own summary says it found "no single summary of her total."

"The search found the right documents. It left me to read them. This read them, and gave me the total, the cleared status and the agency."

This is the Council's discretionary funding disclosure, its own award-level list. It is a later snapshot than the adopted budget's Schedule C, so it includes designations made after adoption, and each row carries a Cleared or Pending status. Say "discretionary awards," not "Schedule C." Quote the Cleared figure; Pending rows move. FY2026 for comparison: 198 cleared, $2,390,000.

⚠️ Query her by council_member_id 7806, never by district number. There is no district filter, and council_district=10 once returned $47.5M of citywide awards. Today the tool rejects it by name and points to council_member or council_member_id (budget MCP 2.0.0, verified 2026-10-19). Asking for it on purpose is a better trust argument than any successful query.

⚠️ The Alianza Cultural Center awards to Catholic Charities ($350,000 + $150,000 in FY2027) are filed under the Speaker, not De La Rosa. Do not present them as hers.

Then follow the money to a check, if the room is engaged. Checkbook NYC is working as of 2026-10-19; re-test before the meeting. Ask: "Now check NYC Checkbook for FY2026 spending paid to Community League of the Heights." search_spending returned 32 payments, three of them coded 3625, Tax Levy Elected Officials ($107,244.16, $33,000.00 and $2,560.00). If the tool is blocked, keep checkbooknyc.com open in a browser and show the payment there.

⚠️ Do not call those checks her money. The three 3625 checks total $142,804.16; her own FY2026 designations to CLOTH total $40,000 ($30,000 NYC Cleanup, $10,000 Community Safety and Victim Services). Code 3625 carries discretionary money from more than one source. Say "Council discretionary money."

Act 3 The digital equity thread

She chairs Technology. She
co-sponsored the broadband law.
She funds digital inclusion.

$25,000	NYC First [Youth Robotics Leagues & STEM]	Digital Inclusion and Literacy
$25,000	Futures Ignite [College & Career Pathways] · pending	Digital Inclusion and Literacy
$20,000	Renaissance Technical Institute [Workforce Training]	Digital Inclusion and Literacy
$20,000	Business Outreach Center Network [Council District 10]	Digital Inclusion and Literacy

$90,000 in FY2027 ($65,000 cleared, $25,000 pending), all administered by DYCD. And Int 1122-2024 — home broadband access, enacted 2025-11-08 as Local Law 153 of 2025 — went through the Committee on Technology, which she chairs. She is one of 28 sponsors.

This is the strongest single connection in either deck

Three separate systems, one thread. The committee roster says she chairs Technology. The legislation index says Int 1122-2024 went through Technology and lists her among 28 sponsors, enacted 2025-11-08. The budget says she put $90,000 into digital inclusion in FY2027. No search engine assembles that.

"You chair the committee, the bill came through your committee, and you funded four organizations doing the work on the ground. I pulled that from three different city systems in one question."

Open intro.nyc/1122-2024 on the projector. The short link resolves and the status matches. Much better on screen than a Legistar LegislationDetail.aspx URL.

⚠️ Do not characterize how any funding decision was made. Say what the record shows and stop.

⚠️ FY2026 and FY2027 each show four digital-inclusion awards, $90,000, to the same four organizations. One FY2027 award (Futures Ignite, $25,000) is still Pending, so say "$90,000 designated" or "$65,000 cleared," not "$90,000 paid." Verified 2026-10-19.

Int 1122-2024 became law without the Mayor's signature ("Returned Unsigned by Mayor," 2025-11-10), if anyone asks.

BetaNYC is not a grantee here, unlike District 4. This act is about her work, not an ask. Keep it that way.

Act 4 The Charter, Code and Rules

Looking at NYC's Laws

Plumbing and water leaks are in your top ten this month. So what does the law require of building owners?

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A web search run 2026-10-19

Local Law 2017/239intro.nyc
Drinking water tank inspection FAQnyc.gov · Health Department
Health Code Chapter 31nyc.gov
File annual tank inspection results by Jan. 15thehabitatgroup.com · NY Apartment Law
Hospitals missing water tank reportscityandstateny.com

Good official guidance. No statute text, no § 17-194 penalties, no tenant-notice right.

The connector verified 2026-10-19

§ 17-194(b) Admin CodeAny owner of a building with a water tank in its drinking water supply system "shall have such water tank inspected at least once annually" — by a licensed master plumber or registered design professional.

§ 17-194(j) Penalties$200 to $2,000 per violation for the inspection duty. Failing to post the tenant notice: up to $250.

Plus 24 RCNY ch. 31: report by January 15, $500, doubling on default.

Also here get_section any citation, exact list_titles browse the Code by title get_version what the corpus is current through

Act 4 — the sharpest contrast in the deck. Don't cut it.

Be scrupulous about the left column here. Re-run 2026-10-19, it is good: the Health Department's FAQ and Health Code chapter, and on intro.nyc the 2017 local law that amended § 17-194. Its summary gets the January 15 report deadline and the Health Department's $500 penalty (doubling on default) right. Do not say it failed.

"The search found good guidance. It didn't find the law itself, the statute's penalties, or the part your constituents can actually use."

The precision point. The search summary never quotes Admin Code § 17-194. The statute sets $200 to $2,000 per violation for failing to inspect, a separate penalty of up to $250 for failing to post the tenant notice, and $200 to $2,000 for an unsafe tank. None of that is in the summary.

And what the guidance leaves out. Subdivision (d) requires the owner to post a notice telling tenants the results are on file and how to request them, with a five-business-day turnaround, and to tell them they can contact the Health Department if the owner doesn't deliver. That is directly usable by a constituent in a building with bad water, and the search summary doesn't mention it.

⚠️ Charter search is keyword matching, not semantic. water tank inspection works. heat hot water residential returns zero, as does noise nighttime construction. Rehearse your queries. Improvising in the room will demo an empty result set. (Checked 2026-07-27; not re-run 2026-10-19.)

⚠️ Read the legal disclaimer if anyone treats this as advice. Research material, not legal advice. Charter and Administrative Code current through Local Law 2026/147 (enacted 2026-09-12); Rules through 2026-10-04. § 17-194 re-read 2026-10-19.

Act 5 What's in front of the Council

Agendas before the meeting,
not minutes after it.

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A web search run 2026-10-19

City Council Public Hearing Schedule, week of March 5 — 2018capalino.com
City Council Public Hearing Schedule, week of September 24 — 2018capalino.com
City Council Public Hearing Schedule, week of February 5 — 2018capalino.com
NYC housing calendar, March 10–17 — 2025citylimits.org
+ 5 more schedules from past yearscapalino.com

Hearing schedules from 2018 and 2025. Nothing for this week.

The connector verified 2026-10-19

2026-10-20 Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings, Resiliency and Dispositions agenda final250 Broadway, 8th Floor, Hearing Room 3
2026-10-21 Committee on Land Use agenda final250 Broadway, 8th Floor, Hearing Room 3
2026-10-21 Committee on Public Safety deferred250 Broadway, 8th Floor, Hearing Room 2

Body, room, date, and whether the agenda is actually settled.

Also here get_event_bills what's on a given agenda search_events past meetings nyc-record-mcp public hearing notices citywide

Act 5

The honest detail is the third row. Public Safety shows Deferred, not Final. The tool distinguishes a settled agenda from an unsettled one.

"Two of these you can plan around. The third one it's telling you not to trust yet. That distinction is the difference between a calendar and a guess."

⚠️ get_upcoming_hearings is extremely verbose — land use items run to hundreds of block-and-lot references. Use upcoming_events for the overview, as shown.

⚠️ Re-run the morning of the meeting. These rows were pulled 2026-10-19 for 2026-10-20 and 10-21; after those dates the slide is simply wrong. The index can lag 1–7 days.

These are citywide, not District 10 specific. If the office wants their own, get_event_bills on a given event surfaces which council districts each land use application touches.

Closing

Built in the open, and
still filling in.

Every figure here carries the date we checked it. We would rather show you the edge of what we have than let you find it yourself.

What is the constituent question that takes your office the longest to answer?The product specification
Where do you go now, and what breaks?Usually: email the agency and wait
What would you need to show the member for this to be worth ten minutes of your day?The adoption bar

github.com/BetaNYC/grounding-ai-with-ny-open-data · beta.nyc

Web searches run 2026-10-19 and summarized. Budget verified 2026-10-19 via @betanyc/nyc-budget-mcp v2.0.0 (the Council's discretionary funding disclosure, FY2027 workbook of 2026-09-14). Votes, committees, Charter, calendar, 311 and Checkbook figures verified 2026-10-19. Charter and Administrative Code current through Local Law 2026/147; Rules through 2026-10-04. Legal material is for research purposes only and does not constitute legal advice; verify current text at codelibrary.amlegal.com.

Close, then shut up and listen

"BetaNYC built these connectors and guides in the open. Any office can point its own AI at the real city and state record instead of trusting it to remember. If there's a question your team asks constantly, that's exactly the kind of user journey we want to add."

Write the answers down. Every question they try, working or not, becomes a test case. The failures are worth more than the successes.

⚠️ Do not recite District 10's neighborhoods as authoritative. "Washington Heights and Inwood" is supported by her district office address and by awards to the Washington Heights BID, but the boundary was never checked against a districting source. The web adds Marble Hill; we have not verified that either.

Backup prompts: alternate-side parking suspensions (311, always returns something) · what the Admin Code requires of agency open data coordinators (§ 23-507, short and on-theme for an oversight audience) · FY2026 discretionary awards to Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation · what Charter section 29 says about Council oversight powers (a plain "oversight" search ranks § 857, the art commission, first).

Your district,on the record.

Seven connectors, straight intothe city's own records.

Who is the member?

A web search run 2026-10-19

The connector verified 2026-10-19

What are people calling about?

A web search run 2026-10-19

The connector 311 verified 2026-10-19

One returns pages about you.The other returns your votes.

A web search run 2026-10-19

The connector verified 2026-10-19

Every award,by name.

A web search run 2026-10-19

The connector verified live 2026-10-19

She chairs Technology. Sheco-sponsored the broadband law.She funds digital inclusion.

Looking at NYC's Laws

A web search run 2026-10-19

The connector verified 2026-10-19

Agendas before the meeting,not minutes after it.

A web search run 2026-10-19

The connector verified 2026-10-19

Built in the open, andstill filling in.

Your district,
on the record.

Seven connectors, straight into
the city's own records.

One returns pages about you.
The other returns your votes.

Every award,
by name.

She chairs Technology. She
co-sponsored the broadband law.
She funds digital inclusion.

Agendas before the meeting,
not minutes after it.

Built in the open, and
still filling in.