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Progress in implementing reforms and improving contract management
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Lisa Flores details the progress made in implementing various reforms and initiatives aimed at improving contract management and payment processes for nonprofits. She highlights specific achievements and ongoing efforts to streamline procedures and enhance efficiency.
- Cleared over $6 billion in payments to nonprofits through the initial Clear the Backlog initiative
- Achieved 91% timely submission of contracts for FY '25 and 99% for FY '24
- Passed Local Law 85 of 2024, amending contracting review thresholds and timelines
- Launched challenge-based procurement to shift the paradigm of contracting for innovative solutions
- Implemented public hearing reforms, reducing waiting periods and moving to online comment periods
- Increased the financial control board's threshold from $10 million to $50 million
- Expanded MWBE support and developed a centralized mentorship program
Lisa Flores
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This work expands on the efforts that started with the joint task force to get nonprofits paid on time and laid the foundation for many of the city's reform efforts, with MOCs leading implementation for a number of recommendations.
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As you know, our progress began with the initial Clear the Backlog initiative, clearing over $6,000,000,000 in payments to not for profits, And MOX doubled down on this progress by supporting agencies to achieve timely submission to the controller by July 1.
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Our FY '25 timeliness efforts led to the submission of 91% of those contracts for registration by the August.
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And for FY '24, by September, we had 99% of those submitted for registration.
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And once again, we're already thick in working with our agencies to build on this work for FY 'twenty six through our all hands on deck approach, increasing engagement, refining performance management efforts, and ensuring clear escalation pathways and accountability.
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Our mission to build trustworthy partnerships and minimize the potential for service disruption to our provider partners has remained at the front of mind, prompting many reforms to underlying policy and regulatory structure that will ensure the spirit of this work lives on to years to come.
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Some of the recent advancements include the passing of Local Law 85 of 02/24, which amended the old Local Law 63 through a collaborative achievement with the city, the council, and labor that increased the threshold of proposed contracts requiring review from $200,000 to $1,000,000 also reduced the waiting period from sixty days to ten days before an agency can proceed with contracting actions.
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The launch of challenge based procurement, which represents an opportunity for us to shift the culture and paradigm of how we contract for innovative solutions.
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And public hearing reforms, as I mentioned earlier, is bringing not only shaving down from twenty days to ten days, but moving us from an in person to an online comments period.
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An increase of the financial control board's threshold from 10,000,000 to 50,000,000, also something that had not been touched since the '80s, and the expansion, among many other things, our MWBE space and development of the first ever centralized mentorship program designed to offer support tools for minorities and small businesses and expand opportunities for growth.