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Chair yields to Wong; Wong asks how contracts are identified

New York City Council · Oct 27, 2026 · starts 0:34:08 · 53 sec

Won yields to Council Member Phil Wong. Wong asks how OCH identifies contracts with community hiring goals and what it does to reach contracts without goals.

Julie Won

Okay, and I'm also going to pass it over to Councilmember Wong for questions.

Phil Wong

Thank you, Chip.

Phil Wong

This is my data over here.

Phil Wong

As of July 2026, 179 registered city contracts worth about $2.96 billion carry community hiring goals.

Phil Wong

My question to you is, how do you identify city contracts?

Phil Wong

That carry community hiring goals and what are you doing to reach out to the other contracts that do not have these hiring goals?

Phil Wong

Because 179 contracts is a very small figure compared to all the contracts I've seen

Phil Wong

in like an open data or passport?