The Office must: report at least annually to the Mayor and the City Council on the City’s progress towards satisfying SLBE Program objectives; formulate SLBE Program waivers, improvements, and adjustments to the GSC goal-setting methodology and other program functions; have substantive input in the contract specification review process to ensure that contract bid specifications are not unnecessarily restrictive or unduly burdensome to small, local, minority-owned, women-owned, and other businesses; receive and analyze external and internal information, including statistical data and anecdotal testimonies, it deems appropriate to effectively accomplish its duties; subject to Title 4 {“Administrative Procedure Act – Regulations”} of the <cite data-path="|general">City General Provisions Article</cite>, adopt rules and regulations to carry out this chapter; and where appropriate, make recommendations for approval of changes to established size standards for SLBE firms. Ord. 16-595 Text Conformed 02/14/21 By authority of Ordinance 20-431, Section 5, the Director of Legislative Reference, in consultation with the Law Department, has conformed the text of item (5) of this section to refer expressly to the requirements of the recently-enacted Administrative Procedure Act that, effective January 15, 2021, governs the proposal, adoption, and publication of administrative rules and regulations.