QUESTION
How will the administration generate additional savings for asylum seeker response costs?
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Budget Director Jacques Jiha states the plan to generate additional savings is under development, focusing on reducing per diem costs and the number of asylum seekers.
- The administration is currently working on a detailed plan to be released with the executive budget.
- The strategy involves renegotiating contracts set to expire and reducing reliance on private, non-for-profit providers.
- A key part of the approach is to continue decreasing the asylum seeker population, which has already shown significant progress.
- The ultimate goal is to sustain the reduction in the number of asylum seekers, effectively managing response costs.
Adrienne E. Adams
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On February 21st, of this year.
0:46:15
A few weeks ago, the mayor announced that there will be an additional 10% peg on asylum seeker response cost in addition to the 20% peg in the preliminary plan, how does the administration anticipate generating these additional savings?
Jacques Jiha
0:46:29
We are still working on a plan and when the executive budget is released, we will have more detail.
0:46:36
But again, we're going to continue on the same path, which is bringing down the per diem cost.
0:46:42
That is we have contracts that are about to expire, okay, issued new fees for those contracts, move away as much as we can from a private providers, non for private providers.
0:46:54
This is the same strategy we're going to continue to utilize and continue to utilize the strategy of bringing down the the population, the census.
0:47:03
Because as I said, this is the key piece of this.
0:47:07
We have seen a decrease in the census.
0:47:09
Okay, literally because it was up to, like, 69,000.
0:47:13
We're down to below 65,000, so it's significant progress.
0:47:17
Our goal is continue to bring down the sensors.