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. Five questions, then we want to hear yours.

Opening

"Rather than tell you what this does, I'm going to ask it five 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.

⚠️ Sponsoring-member surname in budget data is De La Rosa, with spaces.

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 three 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 21,467 bills · 17,314 events

Charter, Code & RulesFull text, by section 22,131 sections

City budgetSchedule C, capital, terms 33,638 awards · FY2015–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.

Start with the easy one

Who is the member?

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A web search run 2026-07-27

Biography · Staff Directory · Newscouncil.nyc.gov/carmen-de-la-rosa
Carmen N. De La Rosa Legislationintro.nyc
Carmen De La Rosawikipedia.org · linkedin.com
Ydanis Rodríguez · Guillermo Linares — her predecessors, not herwikipedia.org
"Chair of the Labor Committee" — a second search said Technologytwo searches, two answers

Good contact details. But it gave two different committee chairmanships in two searches.

The connector verified 2026-07-27

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.

Two searches, two different answers. Asking "how has she voted" surfaced "chair of the Labor Committee." Asking "committees" surfaced "chair of the Committee on Technology." Same day, same engine.

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. Unlike District 4, the addresses do not conflict: Legistar's 250 Broadway Suite 1880 matches what the web returned.

Act 1 Your district, right now

What are people calling about?

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A web search run 2026-07-27

311 noise complaints on the rise in Washington Heightsamny.com
City Launches Online Map of 311 Complaints — DNAinfo, shut down 2017dnainfo.com
The Bronx ranks as the loudest neighborhood — wrong boroughtimeout.com
Numbers for Community District 12 — a different geographynot Council District 10
Rat study, noise task force, real-estate guidespatch.com · brickunderground.com

It has numbers. They span 2011 to 2025, and answer for the wrong geography.

The connector 311 verified 2026-07-21

Noise – Street/Sidewalk

2,711

Water System

1,141

Noise – Residential

930

Illegal Parking

735

Illegal Fireworks

523

10,357 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 left column here is subtler than District 4's

This search actually returns numbers. That makes it more dangerous, not less. They come from 2011, 2017, 2020 and 2025, and the headline figure is for Manhattan Community District 12, which is not Council District 10. Different boundary, different question.

"It gave me numbers. Not one of them is for your district, for a window I chose, and I'd have to read four articles to notice."

Where to linger on the right. Water System at #2 is unusual and specific to Northern Manhattan's older infrastructure. Compare it to District 4 downtown, where the top three are illegal parking and homelessness categories. Same city, same window, completely different constituent pressure. If the office reacts to Water System, follow it — that is your Act 4.

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

⚠️ These counts are from 2026-07-21 and were NOT re-pulled. Gray chip, not green. Re-run before the meeting or say the date aloud.

⚠️ 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 2026-07-27

Carmen N. De La Rosaballotpedia.org · wikipedia.org
Dominates, Wins District 10 Reelectionwestsidespirit.com
Daniel de la Rosa (politician) — a different personwikipedia.org
"De La Rosa appointed mayor" — Bell Gardens, Californiaselasun.la
Campaign sitecarmenfornyc.com

Zero votes. Two results are a different person, one on the other coast.

The connector verified 2026-07-27

50 matters, each with a file number and date2026-06-30 and 2026-07-16 sessions
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

Every one citable. Plus the full 51-member split on any matter.

Also here co_sponsors who signed on, and who didn't get_bill_history every action, in order vote_breakdown all 51 members on any matter

⚠️ Read this before you say "her voting record"

⚠️ The votes index currently covers two sessions only: 2026-06-30 and 2026-07-16. De La Rosa has served since January 2022. Fifty matters is not her record — it is the most recent two sessions of it. Verified 2026-07-27; District 4's newly seated member returns the same two sessions and nothing earlier, which is what gives it away.

"This is the last two sessions, not your four years. The archive is filling in backwards — I'd rather tell you that than let you think this is the whole thing."

That caveat is an asset in this room. Volunteering a limitation before anyone asks is the same move as Act 4. Do not skip it and hope.

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.

⚠️ All 50 came back Affirmative. Real, not an artifact — the same session shows six named negatives from other members. But two sessions is a thin base. Do not characterize 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

A hundred organizations,
by name.

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A web search run 2026-07-27

City Council Discretionary Fundingnyc.gov/veterans
Ballotpedia · Wikipedia · intro.nycbackground, not dollars
City Council Discretionary Funds Spending — Los Angelesccspending.controller.lacity.gov
Council Discretionary Funds — City of Roseville, Californiaroseville.ca.us

How funding works in general, plus two other cities' portals. Zero of her 100 awards.

The connector re-verified live 2026-07-27

$1,900,000

FY2027 Schedule C

100

Awards

$350,000	Catholic Charities [Alianza Cultural Center]	Speaker's Initiative
$87,000	Department of Sanitation	NYC Cleanup, CD 10
$65,000	Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation	Domestic Violence
$55,000	Center for Employment Opportunities	Cleanup, CD 10

By name, initiative, and administering agency.

Also here search_capital_projects §254 capital get_awards_by_ein one org across all members get_terms_conditions the strings attached

Act 3

The two California results are the beat. Los Angeles has a genuinely excellent council discretionary-spending portal, and it ranked above anything about her. Roseville, California is a city of about 150,000.

"It found Los Angeles and a town in Placer County. Not one of your hundred awards."

⚠️ Always pass a high limit. The District 4 script once shipped a figure $390,000 low because a limit: 40 query returned exactly 40 rows and the limit truncates the total as well as the list. This query returned 100 against a limit of 500, so it is complete. Treat "returned exactly N against a limit of N" as truncation until proven otherwise.

⚠️ This script previously carried a figure wrong by $1.2 million — "12 awards, $960,000" for FY2026, when the real number was 105 awards and $2,165,000. It was not truncation; it was wrong when written, and the same wrong figure went into New-York-City-Budget#37 as the example of the parameter working correctly. Re-verify before you read a number aloud in her office.

⚠️ Query Schedule C by sponsoring member surname — "De La Rosa", with spaces — never by district number. There is no district filter, and council_district=10 once returned $47.5M of citywide awards. That is now rejected by name in budget MCP 1.3.0, and asking for it on purpose is a better trust argument than any successful query.

FY2027 shown here; the script's tables use FY2026. Both are real. State the fiscal year out loud.

Act 3 The digital equity thread

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

$25,000	Futures Ignite [College & Career Pathways]	Digital Inclusion and Literacy
$25,000	NYC First [Youth Robotics Leagues & STEM]	Digital Inclusion and Literacy
$20,000	Renaissance Technical Institute [Workforce Training]	Digital Inclusion and Literacy

$70,000 in FY2027, all administered by DYCD. And Int 1122-2024 — home broadband access, enacted 2025-11-08 — 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 $70,000 into digital inclusion in FY2027. No search engine assembles that.

"You chair the committee, the bill came through your committee, and you funded three 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 had four digital-inclusion awards totaling $90,000; FY2027 has three totaling $70,000. Do not narrate that as a cut — award structures and recipient names shift between years (Friends of WHEELS appears as Futures Ignite in FY2027) and we have not verified why. State the year and the figure, nothing more.

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

Water System was your second-biggest complaint. So what does the law require?

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A web search run 2026-07-27

NYC Water Tank Regulations Guide — water tank vendorhydr8.us
Is Your Tank Inspection Up to Date? — water treatment vendormetrogroupinc.com
NYC Requires Annual Cleanings — water management vendorbarclaywater.com
Buildings Must Comply or Risk Penaltiescooperatornews.com
§ 17-194 Drinking water tank inspectionscodelibrary.amlegal.com · result #6

The law is in there. At number six, behind four companies selling tank services.

The connector verified 2026-07-27

§ 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. Unlike the District 4 sidewalk-shed search, the actual statute IS in these results, at position six on amlegal. Do not say "not one is the law." Say what's true: it's there, ranked below four companies that sell water tank cleaning and inspection.

"The law is in there. It's the sixth result, under four vendors who'd like to sell you an inspection. Your staffer clicks the first one."

Then the precision point, which is the kill shot. The web summary says penalties are "fines starting at $250 per day." The statute says neither. § 17-194(j) sets $200 to $2,000 per violation for failing to inspect, and $250 is the maximum for a different and much smaller offense — failing to post the tenant notice. So the web number is wrong on the floor, wrong on the ceiling, and wrong on the unit.

"It's off by an order of magnitude in both directions, and it turned a per-violation penalty into a daily one. That's the difference between a letter that works and one that gets laughed at."

And what the vendors leave 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. That is directly usable by a constituent in a building with bad water — and it appears in none of the vendor pages.

The web's "most buildings over six stories" is a vendor rule of thumb, not the statute. The law applies to any building with a tank in its drinking water supply system.

⚠️ 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.

⚠️ Read the legal disclaimer if anyone treats this as advice. Research material, not legal advice. Corpus current through Local Law 2026/116.

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 2026-07-27

Upcoming Public Hearings — Land Usecouncil.nyc.gov
citymeetings.nyccitymeetings.nyc
Calendar and agenda (raw document link)nyc.legistar.com/View.ashx
Council Hearing on SoHo Rezoning Plan — an old rezoning storycbsnews.com
Hearings — LPCnyc.gov/site/lpc

Portals, a raw file link, and a stale news story. No agenda for this week.

The connector verified 2026-07-27

2026-08-04 Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings, Resiliency and Dispositions agenda final250 Broadway, 8th Floor, Hearing Room 1
2026-08-04 Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises agenda final250 Broadway, 8th Floor, Hearing Room 1
2026-08-04 Committee on Land Use deferred250 Broadway, 8th Floor, Hearing Room 1

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

Closing

Built in the open, and
still filling in.

The voting archive covers two sessions today and is growing backwards. 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 2026-07-27 and reproduced verbatim. Budget, votes, committees, Charter and calendar figures verified live 2026-07-27. 311 figures verified 2026-07-21 and not re-pulled. Charter corpus current through Local Law 2026/116. 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) · FY2027 Schedule C awards to Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation · what the Charter says about Council oversight powers.

Your district,on the record.

Seven connectors, straight intothe city's own records.

Who is the member?

A web search run 2026-07-27

The connector verified 2026-07-27

What are people calling about?

A web search run 2026-07-27

The connector 311 verified 2026-07-21

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

A web search run 2026-07-27

The connector verified 2026-07-27

A hundred organizations,by name.

A web search run 2026-07-27

The connector re-verified live 2026-07-27

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

Looking at NYC's Laws

A web search run 2026-07-27

The connector verified 2026-07-27

Agendas before the meeting,not minutes after it.

A web search run 2026-07-27

The connector verified 2026-07-27

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.

A hundred organizations,
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.