QUESTION
What criteria were used to select items for restoration in the NYC budget plan?
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The restoration of items in the NYC budget plan is based on the administration's priorities and the potential impact on critical services.
- Jacques Jiha explains the restoration involves over $194 million worth of programs for fiscal years 2024 and 2025, including FDNY staffing and the NYPD Police Academy class.
- The administration prioritizes based on the negative impacts that cuts could have on public safety, parks, and sanitation services.
- A thorough review of agency budgets reveals difficulties in absorbing these impacts, leading to exemptions for some and partial exemptions for others.
- The decision-making process centers around avoiding adverse effects on critical city services.
Adrienne E. Adams
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As far as restorations are concerned, the preliminary financial plan includes the restoration of over $65,000,000 of programs in fiscal year 2024.
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$129,000,000 in fiscal year 2025 for a variety of items that were included in the November plan, PEG, including FDNY Staffing.
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The NYPD Police Academy class and sanitation litter basket pickup.
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Why were the items restored in the preliminary plan chosen?
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Why were these items chosen for restoration?
Jacques Jiha
0:34:44
Again, as I said, it comes right back to proudies of the administration and the impact on critical services.
0:34:56
As I said stated, the resolution amounted to about $195,000,000,000, which is less than 3% of the overall pay okay, or choose about that before the resolution of about $7,000,000,000.
0:35:12
So again, as I said, they were restored simply.
0:35:16
Because of the impact, the potential negative impact that the mayor see that they would have and what another agency can absorb.
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Okay, the bags.
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So and when we look back and see that cleaning s would be impacted, Public safety will be impacted, parks will be impacted because we look at the budget to see if they really have resources that they could absorb it.
0:35:40
And once we review and we realize it was very difficult for them, yes, as the same, all these agencies, So we exempted a number of them, and we provided partial exemption to some of these agencies.