New York City appoints its first-ever ‘rat czar’ | CNN Politics
Washington CNNThe search for New York City s first-ever rat czar has come to an end.
Kathleen Corradi has been hired as the city s director of rodent mitigation, Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday.
Corradi will coordinate city agencies such as the Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene, Parks and Recreation, and Sanitation and find innovative ways to cut off rats food sources and use new technologies to detect and exterminate rat populations, Adams office said in a news release Wednesday. She will earn a salary of $155,000 a year, he said at a news conference with reporters.
The city also announced the creation of a Harlem Rat Exclusion Zone that covers much of the northern half of Manhattan, where $3.5 million will be spent to improve and increase inspections, use equipment such as bait and traps, and harden floors at some public housing to prevent rat burrowing.
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If you made an AI the rat czar of NYC, you have to be careful to explain you wanted to exterminate only the rodent rats, not the human ones. Otherwise, there’d be no one to run the City.