QUESTION
Why hasn't state funding for the NYC Department for the Aging kept pace with city contributions?
1:15:08
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The NYC Department for the Aging indicates that, unlike city funding, state funding hasn't increased in pace with costs.
- Commissioner Cortes-Vasquez acknowledges the city has covered all cost increases for the Department for the Aging.
- There's a disparity in funding growth between the city and the state.
- Council Member Hudson plans to further discuss this issue privately.
- The department has not seen proportional state funding increases, despite city efforts.
Crystal Hudson
1:15:08
Okay.
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
1:15:08
So a lot of our needs are also cannot be met.
1:15:11
I mean, the city has been basically covering all of the costs and the increases.
1:15:18
For all of all of the support that we've gotten together.
1:15:23
And Margaret Chin, before you.
1:15:24
But we've not seen that same pace of growth in the state funding.
Crystal Hudson
1:15:29
I see.
1:15:29
Okay.
1:15:30
I will ask you a ton of questions about that offline, but I I do have questions about that.
1:15:37
So I I will definitely be giving you a call.
1:15:41
But a answer given at various hearings regarding the pegs imposed by the mayor is underutilization.