QUESTION
Why does Health and Hospitals (H & H) have a substantial budget for asylum seeker services in fiscal 2025?
2:27:01
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The NYC Mayor's Office of Management and Budget explains that Health and Hospitals (H & H) requires a large budget for asylum seeker services due to the city's lack of capacity and expertise to manage the crisis.
- Council Member Mercedes Narcisse notes a significant budget allocation for asylum seeker services in H & H's fiscal year 2025 budget.
- The budget for asylum seeker services makes up nearly 60% of H & H's total budget.
- An additional $2,600,000,000 was added to the budget for fiscal year 2025 to address this issue.
- The NYC budget director emphasizes Health and Hospitals' role in managing the asylum seeker crisis efficiently.
Mercedes Narcisse
2:27:01
Just cover the command station.
2:27:09
Jamonizwa.
2:27:12
H and H current budget for Asalom's seeker is 1,800,000,000 in fiscal 2025.
2:27:19
Which make up nearly 60% of H And H budget.
2:27:23
In the November plan, an additional 2,600,000,000 was added in fiscal 2025 for asylum seeker services.
2:27:31
However, in the preliminary plan, HNH received a peg of over 1,000,000,000 in fiscal 2025.
2:27:39
What is the reason for H and H having such a large budget for asylum seekers?
Jacques Jiha
2:27:45
As you know, the we couldn't when the city faced the challenge, of these alum sugar prices, who didn't have the capacity to manage these prices, the new place that is has this kind of close to that kind of expertise was H And H.
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H.
2:28:06
And by relying on H and H, we had to provide a new resource.
2:28:08
Those kind of resources basically to manage for the city, the economic crisis.