The New York City Council - File #: Int 0023-2024

• File #: Int 0023-2024
• Version: *
• Name: Establishing auditing requirements for minority and women-owned business enterprise procurement.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Laid Over in Committee
• Committee: Committee on Contracts
• On agenda: 2/8/2024
• Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to establishing auditing requirements for minority and women-owned business enterprise procurement
• Sponsors: Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Nantasha M. Williams, Farah N. Louis, Althea V. Stevens, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Julie Won, Amanda Farías, Shahana K. Hanif, Justin L. Brannan, Shaun Abreu
• Council Member Sponsors: 10
• Summary: The proposed bill would require that the Comptroller conduct annual audits focused solely on MWBE procurement and share final audits and audit reports to the council, the mayor, and the audit committee. This bill would also allow the Comptroller to appoint someone in the Comptroller’s office to oversee and execute such audit.

Date	Ver.	Prime Sponsor	Action By	Action	Result
2/14/2024	*	Selvena N. Brooks-Powers	Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure	Laid Over by Committee
2/14/2024	*	Selvena N. Brooks-Powers	Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure	Hearing Held by Committee
2/14/2024	*	Selvena N. Brooks-Powers	Committee on Contracts	Laid Over by Committee
2/14/2024	*	Selvena N. Brooks-Powers	Committee on Contracts	Hearing Held by Committee
2/8/2024	*	Selvena N. Brooks-Powers	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
2/8/2024	*	Selvena N. Brooks-Powers	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 23

By Council Members Brooks-Powers, Williams, Louis, Stevens, Gutiérrez, Won, Farías, Hanif, Brannan and Abreu

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to establishing auditing requirements for minority and women-owned business enterprise procurement

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision c of section 93 of chapter 5 of the New York city charter is amended to read as follows:

c. The comptroller shall have power to audit all agencies, as defined in subdivision two of section eleven hundred fifty, and all agencies, the majority of whose members are appointed by city officials. The comptroller shall be entitled to obtain access to agency records required by law to be kept confidential, other than records which are protected by the privileges for attorney-client communications, attorney work products, or material prepared for litigation, upon a representation by the comptroller that necessary and appropriate steps will be taken to protect the confidentiality of such records. The comptroller shall establish a regular auditing cycle to ensure that one or more of the programs or activities of each city agency, or one or more aspects of each agency’s operations, is audited at least once every four years, except that the comptroller shall audit each relevant agency’s minority and women-owned business enterprise utilization plan and related activities at least once every year. The audits conducted by the comptroller shall comply with generally accepted government auditing standards. In accordance with such standards, and before any draft or final audit or audit report, or portion thereof, may be made public, the comptroller shall send a copy of the draft audit or audit report to the head of the audited agency and provide the agency, in writing, with a reasonable deadline for its review and response. The comptroller shall include copies of any such agency response in any draft or final audit or audit report, or portion thereof, which is made public. The comptroller shall send copies of all final audits and audit reports to the council, the mayor, and the audit committee.

The comptroller may appoint a qualified person to oversee minority and women-owned business enterprise audits conducted pursuant to this subdivision.

§ 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

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