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Payment delays for early childhood service providers
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Council Member Schulman raises concerns about payment delays for early childhood service providers. Jessica Wallenstein acknowledges the issue and mentions ongoing efforts to address it, while the council member emphasizes the severity of the problem.
- Highlights significant delays in payments to early childhood service providers
- DOE representative acknowledges the issue and mentions efforts to reduce payment lags
- Council member emphasizes the financial burden on providers and its impact on their ability to care for children
Lynn C. Schulman
0:59:37
K.
0:59:37
One last question that I have, which is not related to this, but, there are a lot of, people out here who do a lot of great work for our kids in our city, but they're not getting paid on time.
0:59:48
So what's being done to make sure that they get their payments?
Jessica Wallenstein
0:59:55
So I think you're you're referring to the invoicing process for our early childhood, CBOs.
Rita Joseph
1:00:02
Mhmm.
Jessica Wallenstein
1:00:02
And, you know, I would leave it to our our colleagues in the division of early childhood who are expert at that, and I know that they're doing, a tremendous amount of work to reduce the the lag in in payments.
1:00:12
And I'm sure we can follow-up with more information.
Lynn C. Schulman
1:00:14
Alright.
1:00:14
I mean, you're talking about months of time and costing people 1,000 upon 1,000 of dollars and it's very hard for them to continue to take care of our kids when they don't have the resources to do that.
1:00:27
Thank you, chair.