6 MAY 23, 2019 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Stringer talks nonprofi ts in Glendale visit
BY MAX PARROTT
MPARROTT@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
During Comptroller Scott
Stringer’s roundtable with
Community Board 5, he was
fl ooded with questions about local
school and nonprofi t issues.
Over the course of the hour-anda
half roundtable, which featured
representatives of local legislators,
education advocates, local civic
organizations and community
leaders, two major sources of
consternation emerged: Department
of Education bureaucracy and nonprofi
t funding procurement.
“I think a lot of what I’ve learned
here today is what I’ve felt in other
roundtables, which is that nonprofi ts
that guide the community are the
ones that are not being valued by
city government and that has to
change,” said Stringer at the end of
the meeting.
Stringer fi rst raised the issue of
contract procurement in response to
a series of fi nancing questions from
nonprofi t groups. A representative of
Access Health NYC who claimed that
her nonprofi t health organization
was not able to get the city or state
funding aft er changes to the city
council funding initiatives last year.
The issues reminded the
comptroller of the delays in the
city’s grant funding process that he
recently criticized in a report.
“Why is the city giving a good
nonprofi t money and then they don’t
get the money two years? And then
they have to take out loans against the
money. It’s called the procurement
process,” he said.
Stringer argued that Queens
Community District 5 would
receive exceptional benefit from
his proposed reforms because of its
active nonprofi t sector.
“I want a new more transparent
procurement process. I want the
mayor’s offi ce of contracts to own up
to the fact that they are too slow, too
outdated and we are jeopardizing a
lot of these nonprofi t organizations,”
he said.
Another vocal nonprofit sector
at the meeting included advocates
for the charter and religious
schools. Representatives of Catholic
schools, along with members of
the local school council, raised
issues over DOE mismanagement
and bureaucracy.
A representative of Glendale’s
Sacred Heart Catholic Academy
said that the school has been trying
to qualify to receive a DOE-funded
security offi cer in the school aft er
their application was denied on the
grounds that they are six students
short of the 300-enrollment minimum
required to receive the service.
Stringer responded that there
has to be a better standard than
the strict requirement in place. He
believes that the DOE should be able
to exercise some discretion.
“That’s just totally unacceptable. So
let me see what we can do. You raised
some very interesting issue. There
is going to be more budget debate
about how we deal with all security
issues at mosques, churches and
synagogues. So this is going to be
tough issues,” Stringer added.
Read more at QNS.com.
CB5 District Manager Gary Giordano shakes hands with Comptroller Scott
Stringer. Photo: Max Parrott/QNS
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