QUESTION
How does the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) incorporate feedback from legal professionals and community organizations?
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The Mayor's Office for Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) actively incorporates feedback from legal professionals and community organizations, aiming to improve their model and approach.
- MOIA regularly interacts with contracted immigration legal service providers and has structured communication channels like monthly or bi-monthly calls.
- Legal professionals' feedback is considered in the procurement process, but communication about procurement is limited to ensure adherence to existing protocols.
- A question and comment period will be available after the initial procurement release for further feedback incorporation.
- Commissioner Castro's engagement with community-based organizations informs the development of MOIA's model and approach.
Alexa Avilés
0:54:26
Has Molly met with legal professionals to hear their concerns and advocate with the administration on their behalf.
Tom Tortorici
0:54:37
Moia is in regular contact with our contracted immigration legal service providing partners.
0:54:43
We have regular calls with our action of IC partners, as well as individual contractors on the regular course of program manner be it monthly, bi monthly, what whatever it might be.
0:54:56
In terms of the procurement, however, we must be extremely careful.
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And adhere to the process that exists under HRA.
0:55:04
And that includes minimizing or eliminating any communication with public organizations about the procurement while it's happening.
Alexa Avilés
0:55:14
Sure.
0:55:14
But in terms of in terms of what the advocate, legal professionals have relayed to to more in terms of needs.
0:55:27
Are there any salient risk responses that they have been providing to the agency above and beyond what is happening in the procurement that is important to note.
Tom Tortorici
0:55:39
The feedback received to date is being considered by Moyam.
0:55:42
We can't quite
Alexa Avilés
0:55:43
Oh, you can't.
0:55:44
Yeah.
Tom Tortorici
0:55:45
But later on in the process, after the release of the initial procurement.
0:55:49
There is a question and comment period during which Moia will respond.
0:55:55
Okay.
0:55:56
And I will say that during the course of prior to the release of the concept paper, commissioner Castro visited many community based organizations within the communities as well and has taken their feedback into account in the you know, the formation of this model and this approach.