Chair Encarnación questions MOIA RFP status and program evaluation metrics

This is where it gets confusing.

This is where I'm not really understanding.

So we'll get into that because I'm trying to understand like, so then as far as directives, mission, who tells them what they should be doing on a day-to-day basis, is that coming from a different agency?

Is it coming from your vision?

If it's coming from your vision, then it makes sense that it was

It's your staff, right?

If it's coming from DSS or DCAS, then it's their staff.

Yeah, Chair, you raise a very great question, and we're trying to demystify it, so I apologize if we're adding to the confusion.

The staff that are currently at MOIA, even if their budget comes from a different agency, they are executing the work and the mission of MOIA.

They are physically in MOIA's offices.

I see them, I interact with them.

Their core responsibilities are to implement our programs, our policies.

So the total PS budget.

budget across the agencies, including the mayor's office, is about $5.3 million for staffing that implement our program and our work.

That is actually really helpful.

I just wonder why the hesitancy to just call it Moya's budget in that way, because then

I can see growth there and I can see the importance behind the mayor's office of immigrant affairs when we're talking about the millions of dollars for a budget versus barely a million dollars for the office, but we'll move on.

So under,

Which MOIA programs are RFPed and which are not RFPed?

So most immediately for FY27, we're not RFPing any new programs.

We, especially with the added baseline funding, our focus has been to extend contracts, right, to avoid break-in services.

We're still in the process of making a determination and an assessment on whether to RFP programs in the future.

We're still in that process.

And once we make that decision and we move forward, if we do move forward right with that decision, we'll definitely ensure that community-based organizations and all the information is public with

plenty of time for folks to be able to participate as part of that procurement process.

Can you talk about some of the metrics that you're going to use to evaluate those programs briefly?

Like, what are you looking for?

How do you?

See success and extending those programs?

On the current programs that we have, I can, well, there is a variety of things.

I know.

But I'll try to answer the RFP question and then I think to the programs that we currently have.

I think that's, again, conversations that we will have as the commissioner has been mentioning.

We have been.

actively meeting with all of our providers to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly.

And those conversations will continue in regards to what's working and what's not.

What we have pride ourselves with, and I've heard this from Chair Lee as well, is we have tried to maintain our programs, some of them very nimble, so providers can respond in real time.

And then in regards to just the evaluations, it's an array of things.

It's a combination of how many folks have been served, the types of folks that have been served, languages spoken, things to that extent.

But it varies for, I think the number's at 11 right now of the different initiatives that we have.

But it's also a point that we're open to having conversations in regards to anything that you might be hearing from providers yourself or things that you're learning on the ground in regards to what we should be thinking about as well.