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| City Council | Description | Our Position | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill No. | Sponsor | ||||
| Finance | |||||
| Int 0348-2024 | Nurse | In relation to penalties in tax-exempt projects due to source of income discrimination | Monitoring | ||
| Int 0007-2024 | Ayala | In relation to requiring the development of a single application form for the not-for-profit real property tax exemption and the not-for-profit exemption from water and sewer charges | Monitoring | ||
| Committee on Contracts | |||||
| Int 0510-2024 | Brannan | Establishes prevailing wage requirements for city-contracted human service workers. | Monitoring | ||
| Int 0482-2024 | Won | Would establish a searchable public online database to contain information from all stages of the contracting process for every mayoral agency procurement that exceeds the small purchase limits. | Monitoring | ||
| Int 0730-2024 | Stevens | Would require each city contractor who has committed to working with community members or organizations to report quarterly on such work to the contracting agency. | Monitoring | ||
| Int 0731-2024 | Stevens | Would establish a task force to study the disparity in contracting between city vendors who are awarded contracts and available community-based vendors. The task force would be required to identify circumstances where city agencies could offer improved services by contracting with community-based vendors and make recommendations to the Mayor on ways to increase contracting with community-based vendors when such vendors could offer improved services. The task force would also be responsible for submitting a report to the Mayor and Speaker on its findings | Monitoring | ||
| Int 0732-2024 | Stevens | Would require the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services (“MOCS”) to hire independent non-profit evaluators to determine the effectiveness of the city’s non-profit programming on non-profit contracts valued at $1 million dollars or more, and produce an annual report on such evaluations. | Monitoring | ||
| Int 0734-2024 | Stevens | Would require payment of prevailing wages to human service workers providing human services pursuant to City contracts. Specifically, the proposed bill would require human service providers to pay their human services employees no less than the prevailing wage. | Monitoring | ||
| Int 0476-2024 | Won | Establishes a special inspector within the department of investigation to review contracts that were entered into in response to COVID-19, and provide for the repeal of such provision upon the expiration thereof. | Monitoring | ||
| Int 508-2024 | Brannan | Requires the Procurement Policy Board to create a process for City agencies to inform vendors of the reason for any late payments. It would also require City agencies to provide the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services with reports on any such late payment. The Mayor’s Office of Contract Services would then provide a report to the Mayor and Council every 6 months with information about the late payments from all City agencies | Monitoring | ||
| Int 0509-2024 | Brannan | Creates a division within the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services (MOCS) dedicated to coordinating, facilitating and supporting the inter-agency oversight review process of unregistered contracts toward the goal of registering contracts before their start dates. The division would be charged with continuous review of the oversight review process and with reporting its findings and recommendations no less than quarterly to the Council, the Mayor and the Procurement Policy Board. | Monitoring | ||
| Int 0514-2024 | Brannan | Requires interest to be paid on late payments under city contracts with non-profit organizations. The non-profit contractor would not be eligible to receive the interest if the non-profit contractor has received a no-interest and no-service-fee loan issued or authorized by a city agency to cover its expenses in relation to the subject contract. | Monitoring | ||
| Int 0243-2024 | Hudson | Requires the City Chief Procurement Officer and the Director of Management and Budget, or another officer or agency head designated by the mayor, to develop a methodology for calculating indirect costs, such as facilities or administrative costs, associated with providing human services pursuant to city contracts. | Monitoring | ||
| Committee on Immigration | |||||
| Int 0253-2024 | Hudson | Would establish an Office of Refugee and Migrant Settlement to provide short and long term access to relevant resources including, housing, medical care, education and food to people from outside the U.S. who are resettled in New York City. | Monitoring | ||
| Res 0042-2024 | Avilés | Resolution condemning the human trafficking of migrants. | Monitoring | ||
| Committee on Service & Labor | |||||
| Int 0375-2024 | Powers | Regulating covenants not to compete for freelance workers | Monitoring | ||
| Int 0204-2024 | Hanif | Amends the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the expansion of worker coverage under the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act. | Monitoring | ||
| Int 0208-2024 | Hanif | Requires that the Mayor provide written and verbal notification of the right to be placed in a Department of Social Services (DSS) shelter to individuals and families who are housed in specific types of emergency congregate housing in New York City | Monitoring | ||
| Int 0210-2024 | Hanif | Prohibits any city agency from imposing limits on the length of time an individual or family may remain in shelter or emergency congregate housing, provided such individual or family is eligible for temporary housing assistance under State law, as applicable. | Monitoring | ||
| Committee on Governmental Operations | |||||
| Int 908-2024 | Adams | Adopted. Would require the advice and consent of the Council as part of the appointment process for 21 city agency commissioners that are not currently required to go through this process. | Monitoring | ||
| Committee on General Welfare | |||||
| Int 460-A | Ung | Requires the department of homeless services to report on the feasibility of establishing partnerships with community-based organizations to accept and process applications for shelter intake from families with children. | Monitoring | ||