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Inquiry into emergency contracting and asylum seeker services
1:16:26
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Council Member Brannan questions OMB Director Jiha about the city's use of emergency contracts, particularly for asylum seeker services. Jiha provides limited information and agrees to follow up with more details.
- The city currently has 54 emergency contracts totaling $1.14 billion
- Jiha cannot provide the specific percentage related to asylum seeker services
- He mentions that some contracts are old and the city is trying to phase them out
- Jiha agrees to provide information on the percentage of current asylum seeker response contracts that were competitively bid
Justin Brannan
1:16:26
Okay.
1:16:27
I wanna move along to give some time for my colleagues.
1:16:29
I wanna talk about emergency contracting.
1:16:33
The administration currently has 54, correct me if I'm wrong, emergency contracts totaling 1,140,000,000.00, most of which were awarded without a competitive bidding process.
1:16:45
Could you tell us what percentage of the $1,140,000,000 is for asylum seeker services related contracts?
Jacques Jiha
1:16:55
I cannot give you a specific number, and I could get back to you on this.
1:16:59
But one the one thing you have to understand is many of these contracts are, you know, old contracts.
1:17:05
We're trying to get out of them, but it takes a process to get out of these contracts.
1:17:10
But other contracts which are non migrant related are basically I I believe h p Demo.
1:17:21
Demolition is a big part of it.
1:17:22
HPD demolition is a big part of this.
Justin Brannan
1:17:24
HPD what?
Jacques Jiha
1:17:25
Demolition.
1:17:27
Demo you know, and we have what what are the others?
1:17:33
What are the others?
1:17:34
HPD demolition is a big piece of it if you see them because, you know, they have to deal with
Justin Brannan
1:17:45
emergency Speaking of emergency, are we still using emergency contracts three years into the asylum seeker response?
Jacques Jiha
1:17:53
No.
1:17:53
We're trying to get out of them as best as we can.
1:17:55
But as I said, once you have if we have a contract in place, it takes some time to unwind it.
1:18:00
But, you know, that's what we've been doing.
Justin Brannan
1:18:02
I'd like to know also, if you don't have it now, what percentage of the current asylum seeker response contracts were competitively bid?
Jacques Jiha
1:18:09
Okay.
1:18:09
We'll provide you that info.