CM Aldebol on community outreach capacity expansion

Thank you, Chairs.

And I just want to echo what everyone else has said.

You are certainly a lean, mean fighting machine.

I do have a question about community outreach and outreach to businesses and to workers.

And are you expanding?

Staffing and given all the worker protection laws and consumer laws,

are you expanding enough to have capacity to be able to educate consumers, workers, and businesses?

On what their obligations are and what their rights are.

I appreciate the question.

I'll turn it over to our Deputy Commissioner for External Affairs.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Traditionally, on average every year, we hit about 600 outreach events.

I think this year we're aiming to hit about 760, two per day.

We've been doing that through our expansions that we had toward the end of last year and our community affairs team, but also we're receiving an allocation of three additional positions under these new needs that we received from the administration.

We've also, I think, dramatically improved our ability to connect with New Yorkers over social media, digital media, press.

I think we've

We want to, following the direction of our commissioner, making sure that New York City workers, consumers, small businesses understand the role of this agency and how we can serve them.

And we only want to make that grow over the years to come.