Section 21-402. Reporting requirements to the city council


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  • a. The department
      shall  submit  to  the  city council two reports annually concerning the
      department's youth services programs, reported separately for  community
      service  block grants and other federal, state and city funding sources,
      respectively,  providing  indicators  on  the  department's  performance
      goals,   actual  performance  and  delivery  of  youth  services  within
      community districts and boroughs, to assist  the  city  council  in  its
      oversight  of  the department's administration of funds and coordination
      of youth programs. The department shall present  actual  data  for  such
      indicators  for  the  preceding  fiscal  year and for the current fiscal
      year, and shall project data for the following fiscal year.  Information
      in  the  reports  shall  be  presented  in accordance with the following
      categories of indicators:  financial  indicators;  department  personnel
      indicators;  performance  goals  and  actual performance with respect to
      contract categories; and performance goals and actual  performance  with
      respect  to  individual  programs.  Provided, however, that such reports
      issued during the first calendar year following the  effective  date  of
      this  provision  shall  not  be  required  to  identify such information
      separately for each community district for  those  contracts  previously
      awarded by the department for youth services.
        A.  Financial  indicators.  The  department  shall  submit to the city
      council the following information on contracted services:
        1. the number and dollar value of contracts with  providers  of  youth
      services by community district and borough;
        2.  the  number  and dollar value of contracts with providers of youth
      services for  contracts  terminated  prior  to  the  expiration  of  the
      contract  and for contracts withdrawn prior to the starting date of such
      contract by community district and borough; and
        3. for contracts with providers of  youth  services  having  a  dollar
      value  of  more than twenty-five thousand dollars for which programmatic
      and/or fiscal reviews were conducted, the number  and  dollar  value  of
      such contract by community district and borough.
        B.  Personnel  indicators.  The  department  shall  submit to the city
      council the following information on department personnel:
        1. the number of employees funded by city,  state,  community  service
      block grants and other federal funds, respectively, and for each funding
      source  the  number  of employees who are in each compensation category,
      such as, full-time,  part-time,  salaried,  hourly  or  other,  and  the
      criteria utilized by the department to establish each category;
        2.  the  number  of  personnel  in  administrative  positions  and the
      proportion of time spent on administrative functions.
        C. Contract categories. The department shall assign to each contract a
      category from one of the following:
        1. BEACON programs;
        2. youth development programs;
        3. services for runaway and homeless youth; and
        4. any additional category deemed necessary by the commissioner.
        D. Performance goals and  actual  performance  reporting  requirements
      with  respect to contract categories. The department shall submit to the
      city council the following  indicators  on  the  performance  goals  and
      actual  performance  of  services  for  each  of the contract categories
      established pursuant to paragraph C of this subdivision:
        1. the number and dollar value of contracts with  providers  of  youth
      services; and
        2.  the  allocation  of  funds  by community services block grants and
      other federal, city, state and private funding sources, respectively.
        E. Performance goals and  actual  performance  reporting  requirements
      with  respect  to  individual programs. For every program it coordinates
    
      the  department  shall  submit  to  the  city  council   the   following
      indicators:
        1.  the  program  sites  for  each  contract  with a provider of youth
      services by community district and borough;
        2. the number of youth served pursuant to each such contract;
        3. any outcomes required under the terms of each such contract and the
      final evaluation with respect to such outcomes; and
        4. any other indicator required under the terms of each such  contract
      deemed necessary by the commissioner to measure a program's performance.
        F.  One of the two annual reports containing the information described
      in paragraph A through E of this subdivision shall be submitted  to  the
      city  council  concurrent  with  the  issuance of the mayor's management
      report, and the other annual report containing such information shall be
      submitted concurrent  with  the  issuance  of  the  preliminary  mayor's
      management  report.  The  period  of  reporting  for  the  report issued
      concurrent with the issuance of the mayor's management report  shall  be
      the  most  recent fiscal year ended, and the period of reporting for the
      report issued concurrent with the issuance of  the  preliminary  mayor's
      management  report  shall be the first four months of the fiscal year in
      which such report is issued.
        b. The commissioner shall submit to the city  council  copies  of  the
      following  reports,  and any revisions, updates or modifications to such
      reports, at the same time that each is submitted to the appropriate  New
      York state agency or officer, or any successor thereto, elected official
      or  other  governmental  body  pursuant  to any applicable statute, law,
      regulation or rule:
        i. the community services block grant management plan required  to  be
      submitted to the department of state;
        ii.  the  community services block grant program report required to be
      submitted to the governor and state legislature; and
        iii. the comprehensive planning report required to be submitted to the
      New York state division for youth within the executive department.