File #: Int 0861-2024    Version: Name: Requiring an annual report by a contracted entity to include information about agreements to provide community benefits.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Economic Development
On agenda: 5/16/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring an annual report by a contracted entity to include information about agreements to provide community benefits
Sponsors: Alexa Avilés, Shahana K. Hanif, Lincoln Restler, Tiffany Cabán, Sandy Nurse, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Chris Banks, Gale A. Brewer, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Diana I. Ayala, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Christopher Marte, Amanda Farías, Julie Won, Chi A. Ossé, Nantasha M. Williams, Shekar Krishnan, Oswald Feliz, Justin L. Brannan, Mercedes Narcisse, Farah N. Louis, Carlina Rivera , Rita C. Joseph, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Eric Dinowitz, Darlene Mealy
Council Member Sponsors: 26
Summary: This bill would alter the terms of the contract between the city and the New York Economic Development Corporation (“EDC”) by requiring EDC to include in its annual report certain details regarding any commitments by a person or organization to provide community benefits to residents of a neighborhood effected by an EDC project.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 861-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 861, 3. Int. No. 861, 4. May 16, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-16-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 16, 2024, 7. Committee Report 6/13/24, 8. Hearing Testimony 6/13/24, 9. Hearing Transcript 6/13/24, 10. Proposed Int. No. 861-A - 4/17/25, 11. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 12. Committee Report 4/24/25, 13. April 24, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 14. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-24-25
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4/24/2025*Alexa Avilés Committee on Economic Development Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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5/16/2024*Alexa Avilés City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
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Int. No. 861-A

 

By Council Members Avilés, Hanif, Restler, Cabán, Nurse, Gutiérrez, Banks, Brewer, Brooks-Powers, Ayala, De La Rosa, Marte, Farías, Won, Ossé, Williams, Krishnan, Feliz, Brannan, Narcisse, Louis, Rivera, Joseph, Sanchez, Dinowitz and Mealy

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring an annual report by a contracted entity to include information about agreements to provide community benefits

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 22-821 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 222 for the year 2017, is amended by adding new definitions of “community-based organization” and “community benefit” in alphabetical order to read as follows:

Community benefit. The term “community benefit” means an initiative, investment or service provided by a person to improve the well-being or quality of life of persons who reside in a neighborhood or area of the city.

Community-based organization. The term “community-based organization” means a nonprofit organization that provides services to persons who reside in a neighborhood or area of the city.

§ 2. Subparagraph (o) of paragraph 2 of subdivision b of section 22-823 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 222 for the year 2017, is amended, and a new subparagraph (p) is added to such paragraph, to read as follows:

(o) A statement of compliance indicating whether, during the reporting year, the contracted entity has reduced, cancelled or recaptured assistance provided to a person in connection with such project, and, if so, the total amount of such reductions, cancellations or recaptures, and any penalty assessed and the reasons therefor; and

(p) Whether, during such fiscal year, the contracted entity has committed in writing to a community-based organization or other person to provide community benefits for residents of a neighborhood or area of the city affected by the project, and if so:

(1) The date of such written commitment;

(2) The community-based organization or other person to which the contracted entity has made such commitment; and

(3) A summary of the community benefits the contracted entity has committed to provide.

 

§ 2. This local law takes effect July 1, 2026

 

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