Speaker 6
1:37:21
I would I I I'd highlight chair, I think, first, the specific example we're talking now.
1:37:24
For Garner, you mentioned, not an RFP.
1:37:26
If it's an emergency contract in the technical sense.
1:37:29
Now, the Garner contract is not.
1:37:31
It is an it is a government to government contract.
1:37:32
We're actually leveraging the federal government's purchasing power using that.
1:37:35
This was one of the first contracts leveraged.
1:37:38
I'm sorry, chair.
1:37:40
But for an emergency contract, that is excluded from local law 1.
1:37:44
So this bill that the council passed, 6129, emergency contract is not part of local l 1, so it won't be able to utilize the power of local l 1, but it won't be constrained.
1:37:54
And I think what chief garner is a really important point.
1:37:57
We focus on local law 1 because that's what we're commanded to do.
1:37:59
It's what we're unable to do.
1:38:01
But even if it's not within that bucket, we're still maximizing equity.
1:38:04
So with the asylum response, we're not able to put it right into the same bucket as local law 1.
1:38:08
But we are able to do other things to encourage equity as chief Garner says, he's there meeting with these echoes saying, what can we do here?
1:38:15
How can I connect you with the right list?
1:38:17
How can I make sure they're doing and we're seeing those results?
1:38:20
So to make that thing is that it it will be different nearly because of the fact that it's an emergency, but it was all interwoven.