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docs/d00/c01/index.rst

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+*Section 20-i. Office of food policy.* ::
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+a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the term “director” means the director of the office of food policy. 
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+b. The mayor shall establish an office of food policy. Such office may be established within the office of the mayor or any department or office the head of which is appointed by the mayor. Such office shall be headed by a director who shall be appointed by the mayor or by the head of such department or office. 
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+c. Powers and duties. The director shall have the power and duty to: 
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+   1. Provide recommendations to the mayor and agencies regarding food policy; 
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+   2. Coordinate multi-agency initiatives relating to food policy; 
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+   3. Perform outreach to food policy advocates, community based organizations, academic institutions, and other entities to advance the city’s food policy; and 
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+   4. Support initiatives that are designed to promote access to healthy food, including but not limited to initiatives designed to promote healthy food access for communities that have historically had inequitable access to healthy foods due to economic, racial, or environmental factors. 
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+d. Food policy plan.
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+   1. The office of food policy shall develop a comprehensive 10 year food policy plan no later than 180 days after the effective date of this section. The office shall consult, as the director deems appropriate, agencies, community based organizations, and community leaders and other stakeholders that focus on issues including but not limited to food policy, food equity, food justice and food insecurity in developing this plan. Such plan shall, at a minimum, make recommendations relating to: 
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+      (a) Reducing hunger; 
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+      (b) Improving nutrition; 
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+      (c) Increasing access to healthy food; 
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+      (d) Reducing food waste; 
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+      (e) Developing and improving food and farm economies; and 
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+      (f) Increasing urban agriculture and sustainability. 
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+   2. Such plan shall include implementation strategies for agencies to achieve the recommendations made pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision and any other food policy recommendations made by the office of food policy, and benchmarks by which to measure the city’s progress. 
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+   3. No later than two years after the submission of the report required pursuant to this subdivision and every two years thereafter, the office of food policy shall prepare and submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council, and post on the office’s website, a report that describes the city’s progress toward the recommendations made pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision and any other food policy recommendations made by such office. 
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+						L.L. 2020/041, 3/13/2020, eff. 7/11/2020; Am. L.L. 2020/040, 3/13/2020, eff. 7/11/2020
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+Editor's note: L.L. 2020/040, which added subsection d to this section, provides that it is deemed repealed 12 years after it becomes a law.
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docs/d00/c10/index.rst

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 c. The approval of the final design for a capital project pursuant to this chapter shall constitute a direction and order to the agency responsible for construction to prepare bid and award documents and to proceed to bid, unless sufficient funds for such purpose have not been appropriated in the capital budget or are otherwise not available within each year of the capital program in which it is projected that funds will be expended for the completion of the project. Such approval shall constitute notification to the comptroller of the comptroller's authorization to expend appropriated construction funds.
 
-d. The mayor shall require each agency to prepare and submit periodic reports in regard to the progress of its capital projects, including schedules and clear explanations of any delays for particular prospects and summary information on each agency's record on such matters. Such reports shall be published at least three times each year: within ninety days of the adoption of the capital budget; with the preliminary capital budget; and with the executive capital budget. Copies of such reports shall be transmitted by the mayor to the council, the city planning commission, and the community boards, the borough boards and borough presidents. Such reports shall include, for each project, the dates set in the adopted capital budget for the completion of scope, design, and construction and any changes in such dates.
+d. The mayor shall require each agency to prepare and submit periodic reports in regard to the progress of its capital projects, including schedules and clear explanations of any delays for particular projects and summary information on each agency's record on such matters. Such reports shall be published at least three times each year: no later than 120 days after the adoption of the capital budget; no later than 30 days after submission of the preliminary capital budget; and no later than 30 days after submission of the executive capital budget. Copies of such reports shall be transmitted by the mayor to the council, the city planning commission, the community boards, the borough boards and borough presidents, and posted online on the website of the office of management and budget in a machine-readable format. Such reports shall include, for each project, the dates set in the adopted capital budget for the completion of scope, design, and construction and any changes in such dates.
 
    1. The report issued with the executive budget shall include, for each new capital project being proposed in the executive budget, a description of the project including, to the extent practicable, the information required to be included in a scope of project by paragraph four of section two hundred ten.
 
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