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De La Rosa asks about requests sent to wrong unit within an agency

New York City Council · Sep 30, 2026 · starts 1:06:54 · 1 min 24 sec

Chair asks what happens when a request reaches the correct agency but wrong unit. Morrisroe says agencies often handle internal routing, but 311's agency relations team investigates recurring issues and may change forms or routing.

Carmen N. De La Rosa

Again, going back to the deputy speaker's question, but if a request is assigned to the correct agency, but the wrong unit within an agency, not, you know, I know NYPD is kind of a different situation, which we can talk about, but in any agency, what happens?

Joe Morrisroe

That can happen.

Joe Morrisroe

There's probably two sides to that as well.

Joe Morrisroe

I can't speak to the agency side of that, but from familiarity, I can say a lot of the work that agencies do, their workflow is designed to handle it.

Joe Morrisroe

But if it goes down a different pipe, let's say, it's within the same agency, they have the ability to communicate with each other in that respect to be able to respond to it.

Joe Morrisroe

That's a generic kind of observation, but it happens.

Joe Morrisroe

What our role is, though, is if that is happening on a more of a one-off basis, the agency contacts their agency relations counterpart.

Joe Morrisroe

We dive into that.

Joe Morrisroe

We'll look at it.

Joe Morrisroe

And do we need to change the routing?

Joe Morrisroe

Is something changed on the agency side, perhaps?

Joe Morrisroe

And if so, do we need to change the electronic form that goes to them to get it to the right workflow?

Carmen N. De La Rosa

Okay.

Carmen N. De La Rosa

I imagine that happens often.

Joe Morrisroe

We get a lot of feedback, and then a lot of times we're digging into it.

Joe Morrisroe

So I think a lot of the agencies are very mature in their processes, especially the infrastructure agencies who do this work on a regular basis.

Joe Morrisroe

So I think it's pretty standard, so much so that if it does happen and we get notified, it's more of a, oh, let's jump into this and figure it out because it's not the day-to-day.