Section 21-401
§ 21-401 Definitions. Whenever used in this chapter the following
words shall have the following meanings:
a. "Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of the department of
youth and community development.
b. "Department" shall mean the department of youth and community
development.
c. "Runaway and homeless youth services" shall mean
department-administered street outreach and referral services, drop-in
centers, crisis shelters, and transitional independent living centers.
d. "Sexually exploited child" shall have the same meaning as provided
in subdivision one of section 447-a of the New York State social
services law.
e. "Youth" shall mean any person under twenty-four years of age.
Section 21-402
§ 21-402 Reporting requirements to the city council. 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contract and for contracts withdrawn prior to the starting date of such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.
c. Commencing on January 1, 2014 and annually thereafter, no later
than every January 1st, the commissioner, in consultation with the
commissioner of the administration for children's services ("ACS") shall
submit a yearly report to the speaker of the city council, documenting
the number of youth in contact with the department's runaway and
homeless youth services or ACS who are referred as, self-report as, or
who the department or ACS later determine to be sexually exploited
children, disaggregated by age utilizing the following ranges under 12
years old, 12-16 years old, 16-18 years old and over 18 years old, by
gender and by whether such children had contact with the department or
ACS. The department and ACS shall also determine and document in such
report the number of such children identified as having received
services from both the department and ACS. Such report shall also
include a description of the services provided by the department and ACS
to meet the needs of youth who are or have been sexually exploited
children including, but not limited to the number of beds designated for
such children and the types of mental health and health services
provided to such children. Such report shall also include the
department's and ACS's methods for collecting data regarding the number
of sexually exploited children. Nothing herein shall require the
department or ACS to share information that identifies such children. No
information that is required to be reported pursuant to this section
shall be reported in a manner that would violate any applicable
provision of federal, state or local law relating to the privacy of such
children's information.
Section 21-403.
§ 21-403. Web-based information for youth and young adults aged
sixteen through twenty applying for or receiving public assistance.
a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section the following terms
shall have the following meanings:
1. "Public assistance" shall mean safety net assistance and family
assistance provided by the New York city department of social
services/human resources administration;
2. "Young adult" shall mean any person between and including the ages
of eighteen and twenty; and
3. "Youth" shall mean any person between and including the ages of
sixteen and seventeen.
b. Web-based Information. No later than sixty days from the effective
date of the local law that added this section, the department shall
publish, through an easily identifiable link on its website, answers to
frequently asked questions relating to the rights of and options
available to youth and young adults who apply for or are receiving
public assistance as head of household, including but not limited to a
description of how to apply for public assistance, the types of public
assistance that are available, and how recipients may satisfy work
requirements through educational activities. Such information shall be
updated as often as necessary and at a minimum on an annual basis.
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