QUESTION
What happened to the collaboration and interaction between the Mayor's Office and the City Council in the budget discussions?
0:37:17
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82 sec
The discussion reveals a lack of perceived collaboration between the Mayor's Office and the NYC City Council regarding budget priorities.
- Jacques Jiha explains the budget priorities align with the council's, mentioning the restoration of community schools and other programs.
- Adrienne E. Adams expresses concern that the Mayor's Office did not initially consider the council's priorities.
- She emphasizes that the council has oversight responsibilities and that decisions should be made collaboratively.
- The conversation highlights a misunderstanding or communication gap between the Mayor's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the NYC City Council regarding the integration of council priorities in the budget process.
Adrienne E. Adams
0:37:17
What happened to that interaction, that collaboration in these first rounds that we were just discussing over the past 10 minutes?
Jacques Jiha
0:37:24
What I discussed, ma'am, speaker, is we look many of the same priorities that we have, also your priorities.
0:37:33
Okay?
0:37:33
We restore community schools.
0:37:35
We restore a bunch of things.
Adrienne E. Adams
0:37:36
I didn't hear that in the first part of your response.
Jacques Jiha
0:37:38
Okay.
Adrienne E. Adams
0:37:39
I heard the mayor they were the mayor's priorities.
0:37:42
That's what I just heard.
Jacques Jiha
0:37:44
Okay.
0:37:45
Sorry if that's what you heard.
0:37:46
Because I meant to to said, when I'm in the admit, you know, it's I'm talking about the city in general because we hear from the public.
0:37:53
We hear the complaint from compliance from the public.
0:37:55
And, basically, we met the adjustment at the base.
0:37:58
On the complaints that we receive and from the public.
Adrienne E. Adams
0:38:03
Okay.
0:38:03
I'm just going to state for the record that the priorities The initial priority is given NYPD, FDNY, others are very, very important, but they were not given with consideration of the council.
0:38:20
This body is responsible for oversight hearings to discover those priorities for the city and any subsequent priorities or decisions made should have been a collaborative effort as far as priorities were concerned, and the consideration of the council should have been in mind as well.