Int. No. 628

By Council Members Moya, Gutiérrez, Brooks-Powers, Hanif, Nurse and Sanchez

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to specifying the sources and uses of federal funding required to be included in the database to track expenditure of COVID-19 funds

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision a of section 6-144 of the administrative code of the city of New York, is amended to read as follows:

a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

COVID-19. The term “COVID-19” means the 2019 novel coronavirus or 2019-nCoV.

COVID-19 expenditure. The term “COVID-19 expenditure” means any expense or capital expenditure by a city agency for services, goods or materials, programs or construction paid for, in whole or in part, with any COVID-19 funds, provided that such term shall only include personnel expenditures that are tracked as such for reimbursement.

COVID-19 funds. The term “COVID-19 funds” means any federal, state or local funds allocated to or expended by any city agency to provide assistance for responding to COVID-19, including, but not limited to, preventing the spread among the population, containing or treating COVID-19 or mitigating the direct or indirect medical, physical or economic effects of COVID-19. In the case of federal COVID-19 funds, these shall include, but not be limited to, funds appropriated by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021, also known as CRRSA, The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also known as ARPA, or any subsequent federal legislation that allocates funds in response to COVID-19.

Recipient. The term “recipient” means any person or entity, including any individual, sole proprietorship, public authority, partnership, association, joint venture, limited liability company, corporation or any other form of doing business, awarded COVID-19 funds.

§2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision b of section 6-144 of the administrative code of the city of New York, is amended to read as follows:

b. 1. The mayor shall establish and maintain a public online searchable and interactive database on the website of the city that shall include summaries of the administration of COVID-19 funds as set forth in this section. The data included in such database shall be available in a format that permits automated processing and is downloadable, and shall be available without any registration requirement, license requirement or restrictions on their use, provided that the city may require a third party providing to the public any data from such database, or any application utilizing such data, to explicitly identify the source and version of the data, and a description of any modifications made to such data. The database shall include but not be limited to the following information, which shall, to the extent practicable, be disaggregated by federal, state and local COVID-19 funds, and, for federal funds, by the source of such funds, including, where identifiable, the specific act of congress appropriating such funds:

(a) For each COVID-19 expense expenditure, where applicable, the administering agency, the unit of appropriation, the budget code, the amount submitted for reimbursement, the amount reimbursed and the source of reimbursement;

(b) For each COVID-19 capital expenditure, where applicable, the administering agency, the budget line, the project identification number, the project description, the amount submitted for reimbursement, the amount reimbursed and the source of reimbursement;

(c) For each executed city procurement contract funded in whole or in part by COVID-19 funds, the awarding agency, the unit of appropriation, the budget code, the name and address of the contractor and, if known, subcontractors, the contract identification number, the purpose of the contract, the original contract value in dollars and any applicable contract modification value in dollars, the contract award method, the contract type, the contract start and end date and any revised contract end date, the original contract registration date and the registration date of any applicable contract modification, the status of any contractor and, if known, subcontractor, as a minority and women-owned business enterprise, the contract status, to the extent practicable the amount spent to date on the contract and, if known, subcontracts, and information on the value of the contract and, if known, subcontracts, eligible for reimbursement from a COVID-19 funds award; and

(d) For each grant or loan issuance associated with COVID-19 funds, the awarding agency, the recipient name, the recipient’s zip code, the grant or loan name, the purpose of the grant or loan, the grant or loan award amount, whether the grant or loan was subject to a selective award process and the nature of that process, the award status and information on the value of the grant or loan eligible for reimbursement from a COVID-19 funds award.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately, provided, however, that this local law expires and is deemed repealed 5 years after local law number 76 for the year 2020 became law.

Session 12

TSW

LS #8796

06/07/22 12:25pm

Session 11

NB/RKC

LS #17,656

Int. #2324-2021