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Council Member Banks calls for accountability and concrete improvements in NYCHA oversight
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Council Member Banks strongly criticizes NYCHA's failures and calls for concrete measures to improve oversight and accountability for contracted services.
- Emphasizes the unacceptable nature of NYCHA's oversight failures
- Calls for stronger penalties for non-compliance and regular verification of paid services
- Advocates for transparent reporting mechanisms to prevent future mismanagement
- Stresses the need for a cultural shift towards proactive oversight rather than reactive damage control
Chris Banks
0:03:42
This is unacceptable, NYCHA.
0:03:45
NYCHA residents were endangered due to an abandonment of responsibilities and further for an entity made in so many budgetary problems, it is unbelievable that NYCHA, with little oversight, continually paid contractors who were failing to deliver their contractual obligations.
0:04:08
I want today's hearing to not only identify where the system failed, but to establish concrete measures to hold contractors accountable for the services they are paid to provide.
0:04:21
This DOI report shows that NYCHA needs to have stronger penalties for noncompliance and regular verification, that paid services are being delivered, and transparent reporting mechanisms to prevent such mismanagement from occurring again.
0:04:40
Most importantly, these improvements must be accompanied by a cultural shift towards proactive oversight rather than reactive damage control.
0:04:51
Public housing residents deserve to know when NYCHA spends money, they are actually receiving the services they were promised.