File #: Int 0992-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring the office for neighborhood safety and the prevention of gun violence to provide notice and report on the crisis management system.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 7/18/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the office for neighborhood safety and the prevention of gun violence to provide notice and report on the crisis management system
Sponsors: Mercedes Narcisse, Justin L. Brannan
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require the Mayor’s Office for Neighborhood Safety and the Prevention of Gun Violence (the “Office”) to publish and maintain on its website information about the service provider organizations contracted with the Office to serve each neighborhood under New York City’s (the “City”) Crisis Management System (CMS), and to make publicly available on its website the criteria used to determine the geographic area a service provider is contracted to serve, including an explanation of how such service provider is specifically equipped to serve such area. The bill would also require that once a service provider organization is selected to serve a geographic area, that all relevant Council Members and community boards representing such area, and all relevant local New York Police Department (NYPD) precincts, be sent a letter providing details about the organization designated to cover such area, along with the contact information for such organization and details regarding the contractual obligations of such organization. The bill requires the Office to notify all relevant Council Members and community boards representing a geographic area, and all relevant NYPD precincts, when a contract for a service provider organization serving such geographic area is not renewed, and the reason for non-renewal. The bill would also require the Office to report annually on the progress being made toward the contractual goals agreed upon between the Office and each contracted service provider organization under the CMS.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 992, 2. Int. No. 992, 3. July 18, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 7-18-24

Int. No. 992

 

By Council Members Narcisse and Brannan

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the office for neighborhood safety and the prevention of gun violence to provide notice and report on the crisis management system

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 13-f of the New York city charter is amended by adding new subdivisions f and g to read as follows:

                     f. The office shall publish and maintain on its website the following information:

1. the name of each service provider as defined in paragraph 3 of subdivision e of this section, and the geographic areas to which each such service provider is contracted to serve; and

2. the criteria used to determine the specific geographic areas each service provider is contracted to serve, and an explanation of how such service provider is specifically equipped to serve such area.

g. 1. Upon entering into a contractual agreement with a service provider to serve a geographic area under the city’s crisis management system, the office shall notify all relevant council members, community boards, and police department precincts serving such geographic area with a letter providing information about such service provider, including but not limited to contact information for such service provider, and a summary of the contractual obligations of such service provider for such geographic area, as well as such service provider’s responsibilities to the office and to any other parties as applicable. Upon the office or a service provider terminating or otherwise declining to renew a contractual agreement for a service provider to serve a geographic area under the city’s crisis management system, the office shall notify all relevant council members, community boards, and police department precincts serving such geographic area with a letter notifying each such recipient of such termination and the reason for such termination.

2. No later than 1 year after the effective date of the local law that added this section and annually thereafter, the office shall provide to the speaker of the council and post on the office's website a report providing an update on the progress of the office towards each service provider’s contractual obligations to serve a geographic area under the city’s crisis management system. Such report shall include, at minimum, the following information:

(a) the name of each service provider and the geographic area it is contracted to serve;

(b) any goals each such service provider is contractually obligated by the office to achieve;

(c) any timelines established by the office for each service provider to achieve such goals;

(c) any strategies utilized by each service provider to achieve such goals; and

(d) any identified obstacles to achieving any established goals, and any proposed solutions or next steps identified to achieve such goals in light of such obstacles.

                      § 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

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