Q&A
Civil Service Ambassador Program outreach events across boroughs
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Council Member Eric Dinowitz inquires about the distribution of Civil Service Ambassador Program outreach events across New York City boroughs. DCAS Assistant Commissioner Kadian Outar provides details on the number of events held in each borough for fiscal years 2023 and 2024, highlighting efforts to increase outreach in outer boroughs.
- In FY2023, Manhattan had the most events (33), while Staten Island had the least (4)
- For FY2024, DCAS increased events in outer boroughs, with Brooklyn having the most (32)
- Outar explains that event distribution depends on the responsiveness of local organizations
Eric Dinowitz
0:38:36
Thank you, Chair De La Rosa.
0:38:37
I don't know what it is, but when you mentioned Staten Island, I looked around the room in a number of people seem to be chuckling.
0:38:42
It's a real burrow everyone.
0:38:44
It matters.
0:38:45
Just going off that, you held 4 events in Staten Island, and in the other boroughs, you held how many?
Kadian Outar
0:38:51
So in for fiscal year 2023, we've had 10 events in the Bronx.
0:38:56
20 in Brooklyn, 33 in Manhattan, 17 in Queens, and then a 132 of those were online.
Eric Dinowitz
0:39:04
I'm sorry.
0:39:04
How many in Queens?
Kadian Outar
0:39:05
I'm sorry?
Eric Dinowitz
0:39:06
How many in Queens?
Kadian Outar
0:39:08
Queens was 17.
Eric Dinowitz
0:39:12
K.
0:39:12
It's a lot in Manhattan.
Cecile Chapa
0:39:14
A lot
Eric Dinowitz
0:39:14
in Manhattan residents are more interested in civil service, and therefore, you have most of the events there.
Kadian Outar
0:39:21
I think it's really about the engagements of the different groups that we reach out to.
0:39:26
So one of the things that we do when we're doing outreach is to make sure that we are reaching out to organizations that are across the five boroughs.
0:39:33
So we have individual staff members that are working on outreach for those particular areas.
0:39:38
So within Manhattan, you may have a lot more entities that are responsive to our outreach, but that was fiscal year 2023.
0:39:46
In fiscal year 2024, we've increased those numbers to 16 in Manhattan 32 in Brooklyn I'm sorry.
0:39:54
16 in the Bronx, 32 in Brooklyn, 31 in Manhattan, 22 in Queens, and 8 in Staten Island.
0:40:00
So we are making sure that we are reaching to reaching out to the Outer boroughs.
