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Inquiry into MOCS tracking of outstanding debt to contractors
1:22:55
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Council Member Julie Won inquires about MOCS's tracking of outstanding debt to contractors, requesting specific data on total outstanding debt and subtotals for nonprofit vendors and human service providers. MOCS representatives discuss their data tracking capabilities but are unable to provide immediate specific figures.
- MOCS tracks contract and invoice cycle times, as well as disproportionately aged invoices
- The agency provides monthly backlog reports to other city agencies
- MOCS representatives are unable to provide immediate specific figures on total outstanding debt, promising to follow up with the information
Julie Won
1:22:55
Okay.
1:22:56
And last question before I I pass it over to our colleagues since we're going over.
1:23:02
For Moks, do you Moks, are you tracking the outstanding debt to contractors?
1:23:08
If so, can Moks provide an annual total of understand outstanding debt to contractors with subtotals for nonprofit vendors and human service providers for the last ten years?
1:24:12
I just wanna clarify.
1:24:14
My question is about what is a total outstanding of debt to contractors?
1:24:19
What is the total amount that the city owes?
1:24:42
Okay.
1:24:43
So what is the total amount?
1:24:50
Okay can you make sure that within this hearing your team gets that number for us because we sent these questions in advance.
1:24:55
So we want to know the total outstanding to debt contractor and the subtotal for nonprofit vendors and human service providers from the last ten years.
1:25:09
the Okay.
1:25:09
Would like to have it within this hearing before the testimonies are over.
1:25:13
So I'm gonna pass it over to Chair Stevens to ask the next set of questions.
Michael Sedillo
1:23:19
You said mocks, excuse me?
1:23:21
Yeah.
1:23:21
I'll start real fast and just say for MONDS we do track as I mentioned to speaker Adams earlier and contracts that invoice cycle time and those invoice that have disproportionately aged.
1:23:36
We also provide on a monthly basis specific backlogs to agencies from a contract registration standpoint and an invoice and budget modification standpoint.
1:23:45
So it is something that we offer to agencies on a regular basis.
Kim Yu
1:23:50
So I'll just jump in and add.
1:23:52
And we've been talking about this in different variations throughout this hearing.
1:23:56
But as Michael mentioned, I wanna just really drill down and hone in that through the backlog initiative, we unlocked over a billion dollars in advances.
1:24:06
In October of last year, MOX launched the backlog the payment backlog initiative.
1:24:21
Yes and I think you know just to sort of provide some more background and context.
1:24:28
What we do in terms of the data and capturing the data, the only way that we could even do a backlog initiative is if we had the data in the reporting.
1:24:39
And so with the data and the reporting, it enabled us to do this backlog.
1:24:44
Total amount I would have to get back to you.
1:25:04
Okay.
1:25:04
So I will just sort of we can definitely we can certainly work on that if we're not able to provide it at