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Request for data on improvements in discretionary contract processing
1:05:28
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Council Member Stevens requests specific data on improvements in discretionary contract processing, expressing skepticism about the reported benefits. Director Flores discusses the data tracking process and expected future improvements.
- Stevens asks for percentage improvements or concrete data to back up claims of faster processing.
- Flores commits to providing detailed data, either during the meeting or as a follow-up.
- The director explains that the most significant improvements are expected in FY '25, once the initial contracts are registered in the new system.
Althea V. Stevens
1:05:28
that we'll see a a big benefit.
1:05:31
Can you like, how how how many more like, do you have a percentage?
1:05:36
Do you have data to back that up and not just, anecdotal?
1:05:39
Because I I'm telling you, I'm I'm here in front of providers, they're not seeing it.
1:05:43
So even can you talk a little about like what that bump looks like now because they're what I'm hearing is they have not seen this discretionary money.
Lisa Flores
1:05:50
Absolutely.
1:05:51
I may not have it on me, but I'll definitely if I do by the end, I'll give it to you.
1:05:54
If not, I'll follow-up.
1:05:55
But we do have data tracking the multi year discretionary process.
1:06:00
And again, I think we expected that the first year, you weren't necessarily going to see the biggest bump in the processing time in terms of reducing the processing time.
1:06:10
But once you got that initial contract registered, that by FY '25 of next year, you already have a contract registered, so you should see a drastic reduction in the amount of time for you to be able to access the allocated funds.
1:06:24
Definitely, as an and, again, we'll talk about this all day long, as you know, council member.
1:06:29
There's a lot to be done that we can continue to improve on the process of the front end of the allocation, developing the scope, and really streamlining that process so that it takes less time for the agency to sort of get the baton from the council members in order to create the scope for those contracts.
1:06:46
And to your first question, you know, I agree with you 100%.
1:06:50
I think, as I mentioned earlier, and and we knew a little bit of this coming coming in, that some of what we're trying to dismantle or improve and have permanent impact, as I mentioned in the testimony, which is just some of the items, these are things that no one's touched for decades, right?
1:07:04
And so, which is why I said earlier, I think with the momentum of some of this hard work of rolling up our sleeves and doing something that folks really didn't want to tackle before, that this will start to come together and we'll continue to see improvements.
1:07:17
But I completely understand that all of you and and us are are hearing from the sector.