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Int 0829-2015

Creating veterans resource centers.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Veteransintroduced 2015-06-10

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2015-06-10Passed: 2017-12-31

Summary

The proposed legislation would require MOVA to establish at least one Veterans Resource Center in each borough by November 1, 2015. Each center is required to be located in an area easily accessible and in close proximity to public transportation. The Veteran Resource Centers would provide veterans with free, current information on the matters described above, as well as housing, public and private social services, and financial assistance and tax exemptions available to veterans. Additionally, MOVA would be required, beginning May 1, 2016 and every six months thereafter, to submit a report to the Mayor and Council Speaker on the number of veterans utilizing each center, the services offered by each center, those services and/or information most frequently requested by veterans at each center, the number of full and part-time staff working at each center, the amount of funding allocated to each center, and the number of complaints received by each center with a general description of such complaints.

Committee on VeteransDepartment of Veterans’ Services and other veteran related issues.

How it compares

40% of similar bills passed

20 passed · 30 died

This bill: 934 days in committee

Similar bills: median 438 days · 138 days when passed

Sponsors (7)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2015-06-10 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2015-06-10 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2017-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2015-06-10 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (2)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Section 14 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new subdivision e to read as follows: e. Veterans Resource Centers. 1. The director of veterans' affairs shall ensure that at least one veterans resource center is established and operational in each borough of the city by no later than November 1, 2015. Each such center shall be located in a geographic area that is easily accessible and in close proximity to public transportation. Each such center shall provide veterans with up-to-date information, free of charge, regarding (i) matters within its purview pursuant to this section and state executive law section 358, including but not limited to matters described in subparagraphs (a) through (d) of paragraph (1) of subdivision c of this section; (ii) housing; (iii) social services offered by public agencies and charitable and private organizations, including but not limited to the provision of specific contact information with respect to such agencies and organizations; and (iv) financial assistance and tax exemptions available to veterans. 2. The director of veterans' affairs shall, beginning May 1, 2016 and every six months thereafter, submit a report to the mayor and the speaker of the council regarding the operation of the veterans resource centers established pursuant to this subdivision. Such report shall include but not be limited to the following information, disaggregated by each such center: (i) the number of veterans utilizing such center; (ii) a summary of the services offered by such center; (iii) a description of the services and/or information most frequently requested by veterans utilizing such center; (iv) the number of full-time and part-time staff persons working at such center; (v) the amount of funding allocated to such center; and (vi) the number of complaints received by such center from veterans regarding the services offered by such center, and a general description of the nature of such complaints. � 2. This local law shall take effect immediately. MWC/ENB 1/29/15 LS 3776 Intro. 0298-2006/Intro. 0111-2010