TRANSPARENCY · ANALYSIS · STEWARDSHIP · ACCOUNTABILITY
Governance accountability, from paper to practice.
Rules are written. Whether they are followed is a separate question. TASFGA is a nonpartisan, methodology-driven project that documents the gap between governance rules and governance practice, proposes specific, sourced fixes, and tracks whether those fixes are adopted. TASFGA is currently in formation.
THE PREMISE
Laws can be on the books and unevenly enforced.
Agencies can publish rules they lack the resources to apply.
Boards can make decisions with little disclosure to the people they serve.
Votes in the chamber do not always match the positions stated in public.
The gap between rules as written and rules as practiced is measurable. TASFGA's aim is to document it, propose fixes, and track outcomes — methodically, and on the record.
THE LOOP
Identify. Propose. Verify.
Much reform work stops at the white paper or the bill introduction. TASFGA is being built to run the full accountability loop: identify the gap, propose a concrete fix, and track whether it is adopted, year after year.
Find the gap
Original research documenting where law, oversight, and enforcement break down — legislative, regulatory, corporate, municipal, or private governance. Primary sources only.
Our research → Step 2 · ProposeWrite the fix
Model standards, model bills, disclosure templates, and codes of conduct — specific enough to adopt, public enough to critique, versioned so progress is measurable.
The proposals → Step 3 · VerifyTrack what got done
Planned public scorecards on legislators, agencies, boards, and firms: Did the bill pass? Did the rule get enforced? Did conduct change? Reform that stays on paper is not yet reform.
The scorecards → GovernanceAccountability Council
A planned independent advisory panel of advocates, former public servants, attorneys, and journalists, intended to review priorities and hold TASFGA to its own standard. Composition and charter to be published on formation.
About the Council →FOCUS
We start where the gap is biggest.
TASFGA's founding focus is residential community governance — condominium boards, cooperative boards, HOAs, and the managing-agent industry. It is a clear test case for the loop being built: a large housing sector, limited governance-specific oversight, extensive public records, and more than one million New Yorkers living under governance structures with few accountability mechanisms.
Under development:
- Residential community governance (founding focus) — condos, co-ops, HOAs, managing-agent industry.
- Legislative bodies — state assembly, senate, Congress, city councils that write law.
- Executive offices — mayors, governors, the promises-vs-outcomes ledger.
- Public agencies & rulemaking — the operational reality of law on the books.
- Municipal governance — councils, zoning, BIDs, housing authorities.
- Hospital & health boards — fiduciary duty over patient lives.
- Corporate & institutional boards — where private codes exceed private practice.
- Licensing & self-regulating bodies — the industries that regulate themselves.
ON THE RECORD
The work, as documents.
Research ships as citable documents — every claim traceable to a primary source. A sample from the library:
IN THE FIELD
CondosCoopsNYC — the founding focus in practice.
The founding focus is documented at condoscoopsnyc.org: building-by-building, firm-by-firm research on governance across New York City's condominium and cooperative housing, sourced to public records. It is the proof-of-concept for the approach TASFGA intends to apply across the other areas of focus.
See the founding focus →A PLANNED SERVICE
Public-record answers, organized and sourced.
When a unit owner, a journalist, or a councilmember needs to understand how a building, a board, a firm, an agency, or an elected official operates, the usual options are costly and slow: retaining counsel for each question, or spending weeks pulling public records. TASFGA plans to offer a research service — Ask-a-TASFGA — that publishes a primary-source answer, organized, with intended legal review before release, at a lower cost than per-question legal research. This service is not yet available; pricing below is illustrative of the planned model.
TRADITIONAL PATH
$500 – $3,000
typical range — per question, per lawyer, per time
- Retain counsel for each new question
- Pay for research you can't reuse
- Wait days for an answer you paid hourly for
- Get one opinion, siloed to your situation
TASFGA MEMBER ACCESS (PLANNED)
From $75/yr
illustrative of the planned model — not yet available
- Membership — research library, Monthly Governance Brief, case-study archive
- Quick lookups — 1/month (Individual) or 2/month (Contributor), researcher-prepared
- Deep research — proposed $150/question for members, $300 for non-members, with intended legal review
- Every answer intended to be backed by primary-source citation
Not legal advice. Governance profiles and Ask-a-TASFGA answers are research. Submitting a question does not create an attorney–client relationship. For case-specific legal strategy, consult an attorney — but come into that conversation already knowing what the public record actually says. Full scope, SLA, and refusal policy →
MEMBERSHIP (PLANNED)
Support an independent effort to run the full accountability loop.
TASFGA is in formation. Membership is not yet open; the tiers below describe the planned model and illustrative pricing. They will become available once TASFGA is incorporated.
Individual
$75 / yr
Unit owners, residents, concerned citizens.
- Full research library
- Monthly Governance Brief
- Member-only case-study archive
- 1 free quick lookup per month
- Deep research: $150/question (50% off non-member rate)
Contributor
$250 / yr
Board members, coalition leaders, journalists, researchers.
- Everything in Individual
- 2 free quick lookups per month
- Deep research: $150/question, priority turnaround
- Direct advisory line
- Early access to model documents
- Accountability Council submission priority
Institutional
Custom
Universities, foundations, government agencies, media.
- Volume deep-research pricing
- Custom turnaround SLA
- Data licensing
- Briefings & research partnerships
- Custom reports