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Council Member Stevens addresses process streamlining and refutes previous public comments

4:42:29

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Council Member Stevens emphasizes the need for streamlining processes across city agencies and addresses comments made by a previous speaker.

  • She highlights the burden on nonprofits dealing with different processes for contracts from various agencies.
  • Stevens firmly refutes earlier statements, clarifying that the City Council is not in charge of processing contracts.
  • She asserts that the day's events were not a 'photo op' but a genuine effort to address nonprofit payment issues and work with the administration on solutions.
Althea Stevens
4:42:29
Yeah thank you for that because I think it's just important like even the need of how we need to be streamlining all of these city agencies because when we have different processes that means each nonprofit also has to have different people dedicated to those contracts and also being stretched in with that in addition to not being paid and so I think as we are thinking about steps of improving, those are the things we should be thinking about streamlining it and so that it's not different processes for different contracts because again across the nonprofit sector, one agent I mean one nonprofit could be have different contracts with like four different agencies with four different processes and and that is a huge burden on the nonprofit which is something that I don't think was even brought up in detail at this hearing, that is definitely something that we need to address.
4:43:15
Also, just wanna address the some of the comments and statements that was made by the gentleman who's already left.
4:43:20
Let's be clear.
4:43:22
Our side is not in charge of processing contracts.
4:43:25
If we were, you had your have your money.
4:43:27
So I just want I wanna make that clear that today was not a photo op.
4:43:31
Today was about making sure that this issue is in the front and showing how important it is to the council and making sure that we're standing together and understanding, we're hearing what the nonprofits are going through and support it and we're wanting to work with the administration to come up with real concrete solutions to get you guys paid on time.
4:43:50
So I just want make sure that that is clear and that is on the record because the statements that were made were totally false, totally not acceptable and something that I want to make sure that we have on record.
4:43:59
So thank you.
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