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City's responsibility for quality throughout the contracting chain
1:17:30
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Council Member Alexa Aviles argues that the city bears responsibility for the entire contracting chain, including subcontractors, in providing quality services to shelter residents.
- Aviles criticizes the approach of only overseeing prime contractors as problematic and leading to waste and poor services.
- She emphasizes that the city's responsibility extends to the individual receiving services, not just the main contractor.
- Aviles calls for the city to take responsibility for the entire chain and hold contractors accountable for poor performance or religious insensitivity.
Alexa Aviles
1:17:30
Yeah.
1:17:31
And and it it has the same problem.
1:17:33
Right?
1:17:34
The city of New York says, well, we allow them for procurement reasons to sub, which allows them the freedom, right, because we don't have the capacity to invest in the oversight that this requires given the scale and taxpayer investment which I think is a very problematic approach because we see what results.
1:17:56
An incredible waste of resources, bad contractors and subs over and over and over again with no accountability and no mechanism to be able to understand that there are probably a plethora of subs that are not meeting any of the requirements that we actually or at least maybe meeting them on paper to the point of halal, but not actually providing appropriate halal services.
1:18:29
This is not a new piece of information.
1:18:32
What I would like to see the city is not say, well, they're not our contractors.
1:18:38
We just worry about the main contractor.
1:18:40
We are responsible for it all the way down to when it hits the individual person that we are attempting to serve.
1:18:47
So it's not an appropriate answer just to say we're only responsible for the larger contract.
1:18:53
It is our responsibility to ensure quality services to the very end and that's why we're here today.
1:19:00
So I appreciate you and I appreciate you saying that, but we are responsible for the entire chain and we must hold responsibility.
1:19:09
And it would continue to provide contracts to providers that are not doing what they say.
1:19:14
And in fact, going against people's religious observance, it's obscene and irresponsible for us to just walk away and say that's not our responsibility.
1:19:26
It is not.
1:19:27
I forgot what I was gonna additionally ask for.
1:19:30
But We'll
Julie Won
1:19:31
give you more time to look.
Alexa Aviles
1:19:32
Just one more just one more question.