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De La Rosa asks about Local Law 97 process for new complaint types

New York City Council · Sep 30, 2026 · starts 1:16:11 · 1 min 33 sec

Chair asks for the end-to-end process under Local Law 97. Morrisroe says public suggestions come to 311, are reviewed by Customer Relations, then agency relations, and agencies decide whether to add a service request; 311 reports annually on progress.

Carmen N. De La Rosa

Going into complaint types, local law 97 of 2022, can you walk us through from the beginning to the end the process for creating a new complaint or service request type for 311, which we kind of talked about a little bit.

Joe Morrisroe

Okay.

Joe Morrisroe

Thank you for that clarifying specific to the local law 97 process or.

Joe Morrisroe

Yeah.

Joe Morrisroe

Okay.

Joe Morrisroe

So since local law 97 has been in effect, the public can recommend or suggest or request a service request.

Joe Morrisroe

I'm kind of generalizing that, but there's a vehicle where they can do that.

Joe Morrisroe

It comes into 311.

Joe Morrisroe

We have a team that receives that and does the initial intake on it.

Joe Morrisroe

And basically everything that comes in is considered the starting point, right?

Joe Morrisroe

Our team, that fabulous CX team that I keep referencing, they have a group called Customer Relations who takes the first kind of look at this.

Joe Morrisroe

And one of the first things we do is, does this already exist?

Joe Morrisroe

You know, it's just in a different way.

Joe Morrisroe

And if a customer is given contact information, we can even get back to the customer and explain that.

Joe Morrisroe

But then that gets logged in a tool within 311.

Joe Morrisroe

After that assessment, it goes to our agency relations team who then talks to their agency counterparts.

Joe Morrisroe

This is what the public is asking for.

Joe Morrisroe

What do you think?

Joe Morrisroe

And typically.

Joe Morrisroe

What they'll do is assess first, does it already exist?

Joe Morrisroe

Does it exist in some form or fashion?

Joe Morrisroe

And then it then is on the agency to look at that, consider that, and determine if they should add a service request.

Joe Morrisroe

And keeping compliance with the local law, we provide an update every year on whether anything has moved from a suggestion to a service request.

Carmen N. De La Rosa

Okay.