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Council Member Brewer inquires about Campaign Finance Board's consultant spending
3:12:56
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Council Member Gale A. Brewer questions Amanda Melillo, First Deputy Executive Director of the NYC Campaign Finance Board, about the board's spending on consultants. Melillo provides a detailed breakdown of consultant expenditures, explaining the types of services provided and the budget allocations for different categories of consultants.
- The CFB spends approximately $11,000,003.65 on general professional services (object code 686), which includes voter education consultants, design agencies, and translation vendors.
- For technology services (object code 684), the CFB spends $16,965,000, covering tech teams, Salesforce implementation, and various software applications.
- Brewer expresses appreciation for Logan Gonzalez's work, though their role is not specified in the transcript.
Gale A. Brewer
3:12:56
Just finally, how much do you spend on consultants?
3:12:59
Is there like an amount that is different than obviously PS or OTPS?
3:13:05
Is there an actual amount?
3:13:06
And how many consultant contracts do you have?
Amanda Melillo
3:13:08
So we pay for consultants out of two main object codes.
3:13:12
I'm going to talk about one object code is six eighty six.
3:13:15
So that's for general professional services, and that's the part of our budget where we're really spending a lot on those voter education consultants.
3:13:25
So that includes our design agencies.
3:13:29
So they're designing advertising creative.
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If you see NYC votes ads around the city, those are the people who are doing it.
3:13:36
They also design and format the print voter guide when we publish a bunch of editions in a lot of different languages.
3:13:43
Our translation vendors come out of that budget, our video vendors where we make our explainer videos in the video voter guide.
3:13:52
So that is making up a bulk of the money in six eighty six.
3:13:57
And then in another object code six eighty four, that is for technical consultants.
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So those are our tech teams.
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The bulk of that money is coming from my division strategy products and innovation where we're looking to partner within the next year with a lot of strategy consultants.
3:14:18
We also partner with an outside vendor for Salesforce implementation and that's going to help us retire a lot of our legacy software.
3:14:27
That is the part of our budget where we pay for our vendors that do NYC Votes contribute.
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If any of you use NYC Votes contribute to collect contributions.
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We also work with an outside vendor on things such as the voter guide submission application, so when you're submitting your candidate profiles or your scripts for the voter guide.
3:14:48
And then finally for the nycvotes.org website, we are continually enhancing that website based
Félix Matos Rodríguez
3:14:53
on the
Gale A. Brewer
3:14:54
So you're try to do some of that in house as time goes on.
3:14:56
Is that what you're saying?
Amanda Melillo
3:14:57
Yes.
3:14:58
That is the
Gale A. Brewer
3:14:58
So the amount for both of them is what?
3:15:00
Do you know?
Amanda Melillo
3:15:01
Yes.
3:15:02
So overall of course now I don't have the overall number easily in front of me, but I would say for $6.86 that is $11,000,000.03 65,000.
3:15:16
And for technology services that $16,965,000
Gale A. Brewer
3:15:20
Thank you very much.
3:15:21
And just finally Logan Gonzalez is wonderful.
3:15:23
Just want to add that.
3:15:24
Thank you very much.
3:15:25
Thank you.