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NYCHA's plan to recoup outstanding liquidated damages
1:47:27
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Council Member Chris Banks inquires about NYCHA's plans to recoup outstanding liquidated damages, given that the DOI report showed NYCHA collected only 16% of entitled damages. NYCHA officials provide the following information:
- NYCHA's Office of Financial Services is working with the law department to pursue remedies
- These remedies include liquidated damages and withholding payments
- NYCHA does not currently have a cost estimate for how much they are looking to recoup
- NYCHA agrees to provide a breakdown of the dollar amount of damages to the council
• NYCHA believes there may have been an undercount of damages due to lack of timesheets or certified payrolls • Several liquidated damage memos were written to Allied for providing inaccurate timekeeping of their staff
Chris Banks
1:47:27
The DOI report showed that NYCHA collected only 16% of the liquidated damages it was entitled to.
1:47:36
How does NYCHA plan on recouping these outstanding damages in full?
Lauren Gray
1:47:42
So OFS is working closely with our law department to pursue remedies, including liquidated damages and withholding payments.
1:47:50
We don't have a cost estimate for how much we are looking to recoup at this time.
Chris Banks
1:47:55
Do you have numbers as to as far as how much the damages were?
Lauren Gray
1:48:01
I do not.
Chris Banks
1:48:05
Can you have can you put get those numbers
Lauren Gray
1:48:07
to us?
1:48:07
Absolutely.
Chris Banks
1:48:09
And that would obviously be a breakdown as to the dollar amount?
Lauren Gray
1:48:13
Yes.
1:48:13
Okay.
Chris Banks
1:48:14
Does NYCHA have a reason to believe that the lack of time sheets or certified payrolls resulted in an undercount of damages?
Lauren Gray
1:48:25
As per the review of the team in the office of safety and security, yes, we do, which is the reason why we wrote several liquidated damage memos to Allied for providing us with inaccurate timekeeping of their staff.