Int. No. 464
By Council Members DiBrienza, Eldridge, Foster, Duane, Freed, Henry and Reed; also Council Members Carrion, Clarke, Espada, Koslowitz, Lasher, Leffler, Michels, Miller, Perkins, Robinson and White.
Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the human resources administration to report on its work experience program and education, training and employability programs for public assistance recipients and to track job placement and retention of individuals currently and formerly receiving public assistance.
Body
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-129 to read as follows:
?21-129 Welfare to work reporting requirements. The commissioner shall submit to the speaker of the council quarterly reports summarizing the education, training and employability programs provided to public assistance recipients by the city of New York and organizations contracting with the city and a summary of all job placement activity, disaggregated by the type of benefit received. The first such report shall be due thirty business days following the calendar quarter ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and ninety-eight and all subsequent reports shall be due thirty days following the last day of each succeeding calendar quarter. Such quarterly reports shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
a. the number of public assistance cases at the end of the previous quarter, disaggregated by the type of benefit received;
b. the number of public assistance recipients assigned to the work experience program, disaggregated by agency or organization to which assigned and the type of work performed;
c. the number of public assistance recipients who participated in education, training and employability programs, disaggregated by the type of benefit received and the type of program in which they were participating;
d. the number of public assistance recipients who completed a six-month work experience program placement during the previous quarter, disaggregated by those who found or were assigned to: job placement in unsubsidized employment, job placement in subsidized employment, the same work experience program placement for the following six-month period, another work experience program placement for the following six-month period, a job search activity, an education, training or employability program, a job training activity, or other employment-related placement;
e. the number of public assistance recipients who completed an education, training or employability program, disaggregated by those who found or were assigned to: job placement in unsubsidized employment, the work experience program, a job search activity, an education, training or employability program other than the work experience program, a job training activity, or other employment-related placement;
f. the average length of time the work experience program participants during the previous quarter had participated in such program;
g. the number of work experience program participants hired by the agency or organization in which they were placed, disaggregated by agency or organization;
h. the number of work experience program participants sanctioned, disaggregated by the type of program in which they were participating, the type of sanction and the reason for the sanction;
i. the number of public assistance recipients who found unsubsidized employment during the previous quarter, the previous year and since the date this local law was enacted, disaggregated by the labor market sector in which unsubsidized employment was found, salary range and length of time elapsed since receiving public assistance;
j. a statistical sampling of the educational background of public assistance recipients during the previous quarter, disaggregated by those who have completed elementary, intermediate/junior high school, high school, college and advanced degrees;
k. the number of former public assistance recipients utilizing transitional child care during the previous quarter;
l. the number of former public assistance recipients who received a public assistance grant after job placement during the previous quarter;
m. the number of former public assistance recipients receiving medicaid during the previous quarter;
n. the cost to the city of administering the work experience program, and each education, training and employability program;
o. the number of public assistance recipients who found unsubsidized employment, terminated their public assistance, and during the previous quarter returned to public assistance, disaggregated by the type of program they had participated in prior to finding unsubsidized employment, the labor market sector in which unsubsidized employment was found, their salary range and length of employment; and
p. any other information deemed appropriate and relevant by the commissioner.
? 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.
10/28/98
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