The Committee of the Whole, chaired by Vice Chair Oreen Chowdry, convened on September 9, 2025. The meeting focused on receiving reports from standing committees, approving consent items, and debating key contracts and policy matters, including parking management, violence prevention services, and committee restructuring.
Good afternoon. My name is Oreen Chowdry, and I'm the Vice Chair of the Committee of the Whole. I'm going to call our call to order our regular committee meeting for Tuesday, September 9th, 2025. Before we begin the meeting, I want to offer a friendly reminder to all members, staff, and the public that these meetings are broadcast live to enable greater public participation. These broadcasts include real-time captioning as a further method to increase accessibility of our proceedings to the community. Therefore, all speakers need to be mindful of the rate of their speech so that our captioners can fully capture and transcribe all comments for the broadcast. We ask all speakers to moderate their speed and clarity of their comments. At this time, I'll ask the clerk to call the roll to verify a presence of a quorum. Councilmember Payne present. Wandsley. It's absent. Rainville. Present. Ellison is absent. Osman. Present. Cashman. Present. Jenkins. Present. Chibtai. Present. Koski. Present. Palmasano. Present. Vice Chair Chowdhury. Present. Chair Chavez. Present. There are 11 members present. Let the ref record reflect we have a quorum. Today we will begin with reports of our standing committees before we take up our agenda. We will begin with the administration and enterprise oversight committee chaired by Councilmember Wandsley. Oh. Never mind. We will go to the Vice Chair, Councilmember Palmasano. Thank you, Madam Chair. I she might walk in any moment here. Um the Administration and Enterprise Oversight Committee is bringing forward 25 items this cycle. The first is the surveillance technology contracts ordinance. The next one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Items two through eight are all gifts acceptances for things like registration, transportation, and lodging for different city staff for professional to professional organization meetings. Item number nine is a contract with Karen Scow doing business's access resource for real-time video captioning services. Item number 10 is a contract for ERP planning. Uh item number 11 is a contract with the CUNY on behalf of John Jay College for technical assistance providers for our group violence intervention program. Item number 12 is a contract with cornerstone advocacy to operate our 48-hour domestic violence crisis hotline. Item number 13 is a contract with Darcy Loma for newly elected orientation for four years. This item was sent forward without a recommendation. Item number 14 is a utility easement agreement with Northern States Power.