QUESTION
What are the plans for including the Mayor's new Office of Childcare in the Mayor's Management Report (MMR)?
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The Mayor's Office of Operations acknowledges the dispersed tracking of childcare across different agencies in the Mayor's Management Report (MMR) but highlights an introductory section on the administration's contributions to the childcare landscape.
- Childcare information is currently scattered across multiple agencies, like the Department of Education (DOE) and the Administration for Children's Services (ACS).
- The MMR contains an introductory section detailing this administration's efforts and contributions to the childcare landscape.
- The Mayor's Office of Operations recognizes the challenge of consolidating childcare tracking within the MMR due to its agency-specific organization.
- Crosscutting issues, including childcare, are addressed in the MMR's collaboration chapters, which analyze and understand such issues.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:59:18
And so maybe offices specifically don't aren't included in the charter, but the mayor's new office of childcare, I'm particularly interested because, obviously, I care about child care through so many of my colleagues.
0:59:32
We were looking forward to understanding a little bit more about the office.
0:59:35
As I know, in the fall, they lost their executive director.
0:59:38
They're just in office.
0:59:39
Is that a potentially an office that would then you would include in the MMR at some point?
Dan Steinberg
0:59:44
Traditionally, the MMR, and I believe the charter kinda defines it this way or merrily agencies.
0:59:49
Mhmm.
0:59:49
And so there are a whole there is a universe of smaller offices that don't
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:59:53
There's just very little about child care.
UNKNOWN
0:59:55
I know
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:59:55
it's a little bit scattered and it's like yes, maybe.
0:59:58
But
Dan Steinberg
0:59:58
You're right that child care appears in multiple which isn't great.
1:00:01
Right?
1:00:01
Because it's in DOE, it's in ACS.
UNKNOWN
1:00:03
Mhmm.
Dan Steinberg
1:00:03
But we do have an introductory section that that is is specifically about this administration's kind of contributions to the to the childcare landscape.
1:00:13
And and so that's where we consolidate it all here.
1:00:16
Mhmm.
1:00:16
But you're right in terms of the permanent kind of tracking of that work.
1:00:20
It's dispersed in the report.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:00:21
Okay.
1:00:22
Are there plans to have it live in 1
Dan Steinberg
1:00:25
It's sort of the one of the kind of it's almost an existential problem with the MMR is that it's organized by each and see.
1:00:32
And and it's really its function is to assess the performance, you know, by agency.
1:00:37
And there always are crosscutting issues to set that we separately want to analyze and understand.
1:00:42
And so the collaboration chapters of the comp are usually where we try to kind of tackle those issues.
1:00:48
So so it's and there is a child care chapter that that I definitely recommend reading.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:00:54
Oh.
1:00:54
Do a quick search.
1:00:54
Thank you.
Dan Steinberg
1:00:55
Yeah.