Thomas-Henry asks about community hiring tracking system

Thank you, Chair.

I'll begin with NYC Talent, your community hiring initiative program.

I see that you mentioned that workforce goals have been added into contracts.

How are you tracking those hiring goals currently?

Yeah, so as I mentioned in the testimony, we have over 275 procurements out on the street that's valued at over $14 billion.

And so not all of those procurements have yet resulted in contracts.

I have to go through the procurement process.

But we do have a handful of contracts that have come online.

And so in terms of tracking, it depends actually on the type of contract it is.

So for construction contracts, we're implementing a digital labor compliance tool that will collect workforce data, being able to understand who's working on those projects, how much they're being paid, the trade classifications, where they're from.

As well as the progress towards the community hiring goals.

For other types of contracts, like the professional services side, human services side, we are working with the city's Workforce One system and our partners at HRA Business Link and others to

be able to collect and track that data directly from the contractors who have those goals.

And so they will be submitting that information to the city.

So this digital labor tool will be something in-house to your...

Agency and the contractor would be responsible for sending you these?

It will be a citywide used tool for all capital construction agencies.

So all the construction agencies that are doing construction right now, there's a paper-based process.

We're helping digitize that process.

And so city vendors who are working with, say, DDC or parks or DEP, transportation, those contractors will use this tool.

And so the information on it will allow us, our office, to track community hiring and workforce commitments, as well as allow city agencies to conduct more robust prevailing wage oversight and payment processing.