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Foster Agency Sues City Over Terminated Contract
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Jaya Saxena
Published Jun 15, 2010
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Little Flower Children and Family Services—a foster care agency serving the city and Long Island since 1927—is suing the city for rejecting their contract under a new award process. The agency claims moving over 1,400 children to new agencies is a difficult and traumatizing process, and could delay adoptions by up to 2.6 years. However, Mayor Bloomberg told the Post that Little Flower just wasn't run well. "When we have services that don't work we're going to move monies from those services or those organizations that either aren't patronized or aren't used well or aren't doing a good job, and we'll go to those that do." And he wonders why reporters think his English isn't good enough.
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