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Role of oversight agencies in reviewing corrective action plans
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Council Member Adams asks about the role oversight agencies like MOCS or the Controller's office should play in reviewing or responding to agency corrective action plans. Executive Director Sedillo responds by emphasizing the need for flexibility and support from oversight partners.
- Sedillo highlights the challenge of balancing speed with compliance in agency operations
- He mentions recent audits that have created tension between fast service delivery and perfect documentation
- The administration has made requests to the Controller's office for flexibility, such as allowing early submission of contracting actions
- Sedillo expresses interest in exploring grant-like options for discretionary contracts to reduce retroactive times
- Adams concludes by emphasizing the goal of resolving long-standing issues and the need for collaboration
Adrienne E. Adams
0:56:48
to add anything?
0:56:49
Okay.
0:56:50
So what role should oversight agencies like MOX or the controller's office play in reviewing or responding to agency corrective action plans?
0:58:59
Okay, I thank you again for your testimony today.
0:59:02
Our goal here is to to resolve this issue.
0:59:06
We've been in this issue for years and years and years and years, and I hope that we have started at least have a collaborative starting point so that we can take care of our nonprofits the way that they deserve to be taken care of.
0:59:21
And with that I turn it back over to our chairs.
0:59:23
Thank you.
Michael Sedillo
0:57:00
Thank you so much for the question speaker Adams.
0:57:03
I personally think the role that we would love our oversight partners is to provide us with the flexibility.
0:57:10
You know, just recently some new audits came to some of our agency partners and so at the same time, Director Yu and I are pushing agencies to go as fast as possible and there's a cloud hanging over agency staff head, procurement staff head, public servants head where they say, am I supposed to go as fast as possible and provide a customer service or am I supposed to make sure every I is dotted in the most like perfect way such that the payments get out the door?
0:57:37
So, you know, think the flexibility, support, championing of our public servants across the administration, what I think director Yu and I see is that the dance of building the social safety net is not just the nonprofit providers, although obviously they are key in delivering the services.
0:57:52
We really see our public servants as maintaining that social safety net, and we try to make sure they understand that they're a part of it in a really significant way.
0:58:01
And so we've made requests of the Confidence Office for example.
0:58:06
Moxon, former director Flores has asked them like they did in the 2022 backlog initiative to allow agencies to send over contracting actions prior to the pre processing period, that was denied.
0:58:18
Although they did it in 2022.
0:58:20
Most recently, chief nonprofit officers and agency ACCOs sent a direct letter to the CONTRO's office who have been great partners in the past, particularly as I mentioned the 2022 backlog initiative that was not agreed to.
0:58:33
So I think there are tools that we would really wanna work on.
0:58:37
So excited to work with you and your team literally tomorrow morning on exploring the idea of grant like options for discretionary contracts.
0:58:45
That is a game changer that I think Director Yu and team have been really shouting from the rooftops and we'd be happy to talk about how that would significantly reduce retroactive times and put our public servants in a position to do their work better.