QUESTION
Does the lobbying bureau have a dedicated staff member for outreach and education?
1:13:06
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The City Clerk explains that the lobbying bureau hired a staff member after a 2013 law for outreach and education, but that person left and the bureau has struggled to retain someone in that role.
- The deputy city clerk and deputy general counsel have been conducting training instead.
- They found it easier to have those two staff members handle the training requirements.
- The bureau has not successfully filled the dedicated outreach and education staff role since the initial hire after the 2013 law.
Shahana K. Hanif
1:13:06
The 2013 lobbying report suggests that the lobbying bureau should have a designated full time staff person responsible for conducting education and outreach not just to register lobbyists, but in venues where There are likely to be people who may be subject to the requirements of the lobby laws but may not be registered.
1:13:24
Do you have a staff member or members who are responsible for conducting outreach?
Michael McSweeney
1:13:33
We we had a we we did hire a staff person after the enactment of local law 129 of 2013.
1:13:42
That person ended up leaving and we had difficulty retaining another person to do those to to perform the training function.
1:13:51
So my deputy city clerk and deputy agency my deputy general counsel have been conducting the training.
1:13:59
And some of the outreach.
1:14:01
But we, you know, we kinda got into the habit of training training those people through my those two people so that we've met our training requirement.
1:14:11
But it just got easier to to to make sure we met our training requirement and after having difficulty in in retaining that person, we haven't, you know, successfully gotten back to that.
Shahana K. Hanif
1:14:28
Got it.