Stevens questions how DYCD will engage NYCHA residents and school stakeholders in procurement

Well, I'm happy to hear that some of the lessons that you learned, because I was about to ask what were some of the lessons that you guys are learning from this current RP that we're still in the middle of.

It's not over yet.

That we're still in the middle of.

And I'm happy to hear that that parent engagement piece, how it was kind of lacking and thinking about, like, moving forward, how do we make sure that we have more of a holistic view around what does that process look like?

And so that's my next question that I have.

How will the UICD engage?

NITRA residents, and this is mostly for the Cornerstones school, NITRA resident school stakeholders and other large communities in the evaluation process and the procurement process moving forward.

Yeah, we need to, it's something that I'm even like,

trying to figure out because what does that what would that look like so that you know there's so many people that may want to have a say I know that what I can say is this that last time we issued an RFP for our cornerstone

we did have intentional RA engagement and so what did that look like that looked like they were readers we asked them to be part of the selection process and so you know

We have, I think we had 100 at the time, or maybe less than that.

I don't think we had 100 yet.

75?

And so out of the 75 potential,

RAs that we could have had.

We only had a handful of RAs that, you know, were willing to kind of commit to being an evaluator for an RFP.

So we still need to figure out what that touch point is.

Right now, we've also issued a survey.

To the RAs to get feedback from them.

Because to your point, we've been there for a while.

And so we did issue a survey to kind of get their input of like, what are they seeing?

What do they want to see more of or less of?

And so that information, I'm hoping that it'll help inform

you know, the direction.

Yeah.

I think one, we have to be at a place where we're doing better at getting feedback from community members and key stakeholders like parents and principals and things like that.

So that can be used part of things moving forward so we could have it.

But also even when we're doing a new procurement, like we have to make sure that we're getting

people's feedback and I think that that's important and I think that that was one of the missteps and hiccups that we had with this RP

for the after school but I think that was totally different because y'all didn't even have that much time so don't get me started there but I do want to

us to be thinking about moving forward, how do we make sure that different voices are heard in these conversations.