Chair reviews OCH reports and data gaps
Won says OCH's latest quarterly report shows 179 contracts worth about $3 billion with hiring goals, up from 60 contracts worth $1 billion. She highlights low progress on construction and service contracts, implausible percentages, and missing required data on hires, pay, and demographics.
But then we started looking at the Office of Community Hiring's own reports.
OCH's latest quarterly...
report was posted just last week and it shows 179 contracts worth about $3 billion carrying a community hiring goal up to up from 60 contracts worth about $1 billion in March.
That's real growth, but unfortunately the progress hasn't kept up.
Of the 83 construction contracts, only 8 reported any progress and 6 of these 8 were below the 30%
community hiring goal.
On all five contracts from the apprenticeship goal that reported progress, the share of hours worked by apprentices from these communities was zero.
For service contracts, 94 contracts now carry community hiring goals that add up to more than 3,000 hires, but more than half of them still have no progress reported at all.
And some of the numbers that are reported don't add up.
One Department of Social Services Workforce Development Program in Queens has a goal of 31 hires, but OCH's report shows it at more than 1,200% of that goal.
Either something remarkable is happening or OCH is counting something other than new hires.
And nowhere in these reports does the city say how many people have actually been hired.
The law requires these reports to show how many people were hired, what they're paid, and who they are, and that information still isn't in there.