Won asks for status of seven marquee initiatives with targets and timelines
Won asks EDC and NYC Talent to walk through each of the seven marquee initiatives from the plan with original targets, current status, timelines, and revised metrics. Perry provides a detailed response on community hiring, noting 280+ procurements valued at $14 billion, but does not have specific targets for each initiative.
My last question is the Green Economy Action Plan named seven marquee initiatives, one per strategic goal, so for community hiring and place-based workforce strategies, tax incentives for battery storage, public sites for EV charging, Harbor Climate Collaborative,
Climate Innovation Hub at Brooklyn,
Army terminal, green training facilities in every borough, and implicitly getting local law 97 done.
So I think I already know the answer to this, but for the record, can you walk through each of these seven marquee initiatives identified in the plan and provide A, an original target and metric in which you put out these forecasts and these goals, B, current status against that target,
C, timeline to completion, and D, any metric that has been revised since publication, and Y.
So I want to make sure I'm responding to all of the initiatives as best we can.
I would say with community hiring, like I said, back in 2024 when this plan was released, we were still in the rulemaking process of community hiring.
And so these rules went into effect in January 2025.
And at that point, we worked across all of our city agency partners to start setting goals on those.
Community hiring contracts.
And so we're proud that over 280 procurements have been released valued at approximately $14 billion.
And these are applicable to all sorts of contracts, but including green economy related investments, such as construction of bioswales, resiliency infrastructure, building services, consulting services like engineering and design.
So really opening up opportunities in sectors that traditionally have not been common sectors served by the workforce system.
And so we're excited about community hiring being able to do that.
I don't, there were not specific goals tied to community hiring numbers in the Green Economy Action Plan, but like was mentioned, the plan was a projection based on information at the time.
We are excited still today of making sure that we are continuing to connect New Yorkers to jobs in the green economy and want to make sure that all New Yorkers have access and opportunity.
So a lot of the work that we've done, whether it's through our remake team who is conducting webinars and learning from both employers, big and small,
our work of putting community hiring out there, and then a lot of the programming that we've already touched on today, making sure that we're setting New Yorkers up.