Councilmember Banks questions DYCD direct communication with small organizations on contracts
Banks asks DYCD to be more proactive in directly contacting smaller organizations about contract issues rather than relying on council offices as intermediaries. Officials acknowledge the concern and commit to improving direct communication.
Thank you, Councilmember.
And can I just ask one more question, Madam Chair, if you could indulge me?
This will end it.
I'll pass on those other questions.
Thank you for your indulgence.
When it comes to contract processing and staff reimbursement, this has been a major issue with a lot of the discretionary allocations to a lot of the smaller organizations.
What is being done?
You know, my office, I think every council office acts as a medium between the DYCD and those organizations.
But there are many times when DYCD should just directly call those organizations if there are issues that occur or documents are missing.
Sometimes there's like a major lapse between communications between DYC and those organizations.
What we want to do is see how we can strengthen that with DYC directly.
It's being more proactive and reaching out to those organizations.
Trust me, my office, we can be dealing with a whole host of other issues instead of having to be this medium or this go-between between NYCHA and the nonprofit.
So if we can improve that, that will go a long way.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And I'm sure the commissioner will take that into consideration and add that to the million list of things to do.