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Councilmember Lee expresses frustration with nonprofit contracting processes

1:29:40

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Councilmember Linda Lee opens the discussion by expressing her frustration with the complex and varied procurement and contracting processes that nonprofit organizations face when dealing with different city agencies. She empathizes with nonprofit providers in the room, drawing from her 15 years of experience running nonprofit organizations in New York City.

  • Lee highlights the challenges of dealing with multiple agencies, each with its own rules and systems.
  • She acknowledges the frustration and difficulty nonprofit executives face in managing various contracts and associated paperwork.
  • The councilmember sets the tone for her subsequent questioning, indicating her personal investment in improving these processes.
Linda Lee
1:29:40
Hi everyone.
1:29:41
Good morning.
1:29:42
So I have a lot of questions about the procurement contracting process and I say this with having run nonprofit organizations for fifteen years in New York City and having to deal with DFTA, DOHMH, DYCD and all of a lot of the other agencies and I have to say I'm getting a little heated not at you guys personally but because it's almost bringing like I always joke around saying I'm a recovering you know nonprofit executive because it's a lot and I just want to say to the nonprofit providers that are in the room, I hear you and I feel your frustration because having to deal with all of these contracts and each agency has its own rules, it's very frustrating.
1:30:23
And so I regret that I wore a turtleneck because I'm getting a little hot right now.
1:30:31
You know I just wanted to go into a little bit and I'm just gonna you know and not in any particular order but shoot out some of my questions.
1:30:38
So if I'm not understand if I'm understanding correctly, you guys are not on the passport system because I know it went from Venex to HHS and now it's passport and then you guys are on a separate system?
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