RESOLUTION NO. 311
REQUIRING PROGRAMMATIC INFORMATION IN REQUESTS FOR LEGISLATIVE ACTION AND CODIFYING EXISTING PRACTICES
Introduced: 5/13/24
By: Conway, Burgdorf, Collins, Drake, Grimm, Lockart, Mauriello, Perlee, Whalen
WHEREAS, The Albany County Legislature is responsible for the approval of Albany County's contracting and procurement above a $100,000 threshold; and
WHEREAS, In the course of its business, the Legislature considers many different contracts which relate to the direct provision of services to individuals, with services covering a wide range of areas including provision of warm shelter to the homeless, rehabilitation, workforce training, and many other types of programs; and
WHEREAS, In order to fully consider the impact of aforementioned programming, as well as the fitness of existing contractors to continue to provide those programs, County Legislators must often ask many additional questions in committee meetings in order to establish a basic framework for the operation and scope of the programs; and
WHEREAS, The aforementioned programmatic legislative items are submitted to the Legislature as "Requests for Legislative Action" from the executive branch of Albany County's government; and
WHEREAS, Requests for Legislative Action are not presently codified within the Legislature's Rules of Order or in the Albany County Charter, instead existing as convention reliant on the directive of the sitting County Executive; and
WHEREAS, Best practices suggest a basic codification of the form of Requests for Legislative Action would ensure the efficient consideration and passage of these items beyond the terms of existing officials; and
WHEREAS, Requests for Legislative Action should include additional detail regarding the efficacy and scope of direct service programs in order to allow legislators to consider the whole effect of a proposal prior to committee meetings, now, theref...
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