Int. No. 686-A
By Council Members Stevens, Menin, Louis, Riley, Restler, Hudson, Ung, Farías, Sanchez, Lee, Schulman, Hanif, Hanks, Avilés and Cabán
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to summer youth employment
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 4 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-414 to read as follows:
§ 21-414 Summer youth employment program. a. Definition. For the purposes of this section the following term has the following meaning:
Summer youth employment program. The term “summer youth employment program” means the program operated by the department of youth and community development to provide youth with opportunities for summer employment.
b. The department shall operate a summer youth employment program. In operating the program, the department shall:
1. Coordinate with other agencies to develop summer youth employment opportunities within such agencies; each agency shall have a goal of accepting summer youth employment program participants equal to at least .5 percent of its total full-time headcount; and
2. Coordinate with the department of small business services to promote the summer youth employment program to businesses with which such department has contact.
c. On or before January 31, 2024, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council a report regarding the summer youth employment program. Such report shall include the number of youth employed pursuant to the summer youth employment program during the previous summer, disaggregated by placement in each of the government, private, and nonprofit sectors. For the government sector, the report shall disaggregate the number of youth employed by each agency. For any agency that does not meet the goal of employing at least .5 percent of its total full-time headcount, the report shall include an explanation of why the goal was not met.
§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.
EB/JG/NC
LS #8295/8348/8302
05/17/23