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Collaboration between MOCS and MONS
1:13:34
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Lisa Flores explains the close collaboration between the Mayor's Office of Contract Services (MOCS) and the Mayor's Office of Nonprofit Services (MONS) in response to Council Member Julie Won's question about their working relationship.
- MOCS and MONS are described as 'partners in the trenches'
- They collaborate on solving immediate issues and working on future improvements
- Joint initiatives include weekly meetings with City Hall, addressing nonprofit concerns, and developing changes to rules and regulations
- The partnership aims to be flexible, creative, and timely in making procurement, process, and technology changes
Lisa Flores
1:13:34
Thank you for the question, chair one.
1:13:36
I'll definitely start and then defer to Helga on the specific numbers about budget and staff.
1:13:43
Mons works very closely with MOCs.
1:13:45
We are, I would say, partners in the trenches together.
1:13:51
And it's not, as I said, our goal collectively is not only to solve the incoming, which is important and a priority, but also to continue to work full steam ahead on the future state and ensuring that we're continuing to be flexible and creative and timely around doing procurement changes, process changes, and technology changes.
1:14:16
And so we work in partnership on those weekly meetings with city hall.
1:14:20
We work in partnership and incoming from not for profits.
1:14:23
We work in partnership in developing sort of joint initiatives in changing rules and regulations.
1:14:32
And so all I can say is that we are hand in hand in all that we're doing related to the nonprofit sector.