Chair Williams asks Delfin to explain capacity plan versus shared agenda
Chair asks about the difference; Delfin says the capacity plan addresses DCLA's ability to assess and report, while the shared agenda coordinates many actors and requires standing spaces for collaboration and accountability.
You're welcome.
So for Mauricio, you said Create NYC was asked to be both an agency plan and sector-wide agenda.
Can you explain the difference and why the city needs both?
Sure, thank you for the question.
The capacity building plan for DCLA is addressing specifically how DCLA, what the conditions are for DCLA to operate and deliver on all the objectives that we have been talking this morning.
So it has to do with really digging into what are those things that the department or the agency requires to be able to report, to be able to assess.
Assessment is big, as we've seen, data collection and data sharing.
But aside from publishing a large data set like the one that was shared or communicated today, which is amazing, this is something that needs to happen daily, and it really needs a coordinated effort, as you also have pointed out.
That's one part of the capacity building that we haven't only talked about it here.
It's been talked to many, many times through different hearings.
What are those things that DCLA requires to do the job today, right?
That is one discrete kind of investment.
The shared agenda piece has to do with what the ecosystem looks like right now in the city.
There's more networks working together, more coalitions, and we are in the capacity to coordinate better intentions.
That requires the kind of infrastructure that the council and the city could convene, could actually make happen.
So we think that before a plan, we should create the conditions for that plan to actually be held by many and be able to be distributed in a way that we can all participate in uplifting and continuing
its objectives and holding ourselves accountable for the assessment and the outputs that plan could deliver.