QUESTION
Should Revenue-Generating Agencies Like OATH Be Exempt from Budget Cuts?
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OATH, as a revenue-generating agency, receives revenue through fees paid by individuals, which then goes into the city's coffers.
- OATH does not prefer to be called a revenue-generating agency as it strives to maintain impartiality in its adjudications.
- The agency acknowledges that revenue passes through their doors and contributes to the city's funds.
- OATH emphasizes the importance of having multiple payment options for individuals coming to them.
- When OATH needs to fill mission-critical positions that can support the city's finances, they communicate with OMB for support.
Gale A. Brewer
3:05:34
My question is twofold.
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First of all, the revenue generator.
3:05:40
You are revenue generating agency.
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So I thought that under the scenario with OMB, when you are a revenue generating agencies, you're less likely to get pegs.
3:05:51
Is that incorrect less likely to get caught, you certainly are revenue generating agency.
3:05:56
We or or the agencies are revenue generators, and you're just a trial.
Asim Rehman
3:06:02
I don't necessarily prefer the title revenue generating, and here's why.
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Tribunal should not be associated with revenue.
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Because then that makes it seem like we are impartial we're not that we are impartial towards Mainly, outcomes that would lead to to revenue.
3:06:20
And then we've seen problems with that type of model across the country.
3:06:24
That being said, we understand that people come to oath.
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And we want, as a city, want to make sure that people have multiple ways to pay.
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So can people pay at oath?
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Yes.
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They can.
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And so there is revenue that passes through our doors that then goes into the city coffers.
3:06:41
So in that regard, we are part of the revenue system, so to speak.
3:06:45
But I forgot your question.
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I'm so sorry.
Gale A. Brewer
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No.
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That that's part of it.
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But the issue for me too is, as a result, since you are revving parent, you shouldn't get cut.
Asim Rehman
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Yeah.
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And
Gale A. Brewer
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I That's what's in the in the clouds.
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That's absolutely.
Asim Rehman
3:06:59
I would I would take that position.
3:07:01
And I when we for example, as I mentioned earlier, have positions that we're losing due to attrition that
Gale A. Brewer
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or revenue generator
Asim Rehman
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that are mission critical because maybe it's an adjudicator or fall into the category of positions that can support the city's coffers.
3:07:19
We blaining that to OMB, and they are receptive to those those that information when we share it about needing to to fill a line because it ultimately will it'll help the city's Okay.
Gale A. Brewer
3:07:29
I mean, I would agree with the chair since you have been cut so much.
3:07:33
That seems to me that it should be just a way of doing business not to cut, but that's another story.
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I am kind of She got
Lincoln Restler
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that for the record that she agrees with the chair.
Gale A. Brewer
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Yeah.
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From once, now often.
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The uncollected dollars.