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Council Member Stevens inquires about strategies to expedite provider payments for summer 2025
4:24:07
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Council Member Althea Stevens questions Deputy Commissioner Jeremy Halbridge about strategies to pay providers faster for the summer of 2025. Halbridge outlines several approaches including increasing headcount, working with partner agencies, and implementing a timeliness registration plan.
- DYCD is actively hiring new staff to improve efficiency
- Weekly meetings are held to discuss the FY 2026 timeliness registration plan
- Advances will be issued to all registered contracts with approved budgets for FY 2026
Althea Stevens
4:24:07
Which strategies are being implemented to pay providers faster in 2025 going into the summer?
Jeremy Halbridge
4:24:17
That's a great question.
4:24:18
Something we talked about at the hearing a few weeks ago.
Althea Stevens
4:24:21
I know.
Jeremy Halbridge
4:24:23
One of the the first ones we talked about is the headcount that we received.
4:24:27
We're bringing people on as quickly as possible.
4:24:30
We're working with our counterparts at MOX and MONS to ensure that we have the resources and focus that we need.
4:24:39
Internally, we have weekly meetings about our FY twenty six timeliness registration plan which our oversight and sister agencies are doing as well.
4:24:49
But the goal is to ensure that contracts are registered on time and that advances are out, which we talked about as well.
4:24:56
Advances will go out to all registered contracts, budgets for registered contracts as in FY '26.