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NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A councilman gave an update Thursday on how much personal protective equipment the city has in its 90-day COVID stockpile.

Councilman Ben Kallos tweeted a list of the protective gear announced at a joint hearing, along with the question: “Is this enough for NYC?”

Here’s what the city has in its stockpile, according to Kallos:

• 185 million nitrile gloves

• 54 million 3-ply surgical masks

• 37 million Level 3 isolation gowns

• 13.5 million N95 masks

• 6 million face shields

• 900,000 goggles

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) 90-day #COVID19 stockpiles announced at our @NYCCouncil joint hearing:
13.5M N95 masks,
37M Lvl 3 isolation gowns,
54M 3-ply surgical masks,
185M nitrile gloves,
900,000 goggles, &
6M face shields.
Open Question: Is this enough for #NYC?

— Ben Kallos, NYC Council Member (@BenKallos) October 22, 2020

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced back in May that the city would create and maintain a 90-day stockpile of PPE “to ensure hospitals citywide are equipped to handle a potential resurgence of COVID-19.”

The mayor made the announcement when the city was struggling to acquire enough PPE to get through a single week. He said the city would gradually add materials to its stockpile once it had a 14-day supply on hand.

“We’ve been to hell and back, beating this virus back inch-by-inch every day,” de Blasio said at the time. “But now is not the time to let our guard down. We are planning for every possible scenario with COVID-19, ensuring our hospitals and frontline heroes will have the reinforcements they need to save lives.”

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Two City Council Members have proposed a bill that would make summer camp free for all New York City students.

The bill, introduced Tuesday, would require the city's Youth and Community Development Department to determine the scope and resources to provide summer camp for all city kids by 2022, according to The Daily News.

At the moment, summer youth programs are often not funded until the city's final budget is determined in June, causing uncertainty for parents, program providers and kids.

The NYC Parks Department offers a summer day camp for students aged 6 to 13, which costs between $500 and $575 for seven weeks.

One of the bill's sponsors, Debi Rose of Staten Island, tweeted, "It is time we build on our successes with early childhood education in the city and give all students seeking a spot in a summer program the opportunity to participate."

“Parents should be able to track buses just like an Uber or an MTA bus, see when it’s coming, come downstairs with their kids, see it get their kids to school safely and know when it’s coming to drop off their child at home,” said Councilman Ben Kallos, who sits on the City Council’s Education Committee.

Now, parents will be able to locate their children’s school buses in real-time.