QUESTION
Why does the New York City Department of Correction's budget show stable growth despite operational challenges?
2:50:49
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The Department of Correction plans to maintain a stable budget through savings from operating below authorized headcount and reducing overtime.
- The department's budget remains relatively flat year over year.
- Marla Srinivas, Deputy Commissioner of Budget and Finance, mentions that the previous and current budgets are $24 billion and $25 billion respectively.
- Savings are expected from operating under the authorized staff numbers and from overtime reduction.
- The complexity of operational challenges does not affect the stability of the budget growth.
Sandy Nurse
2:50:49
So I'm gonna start with some just basic changes in the preliminary plan.
2:50:54
The budget remains relatively flat from year to year.
2:50:58
But can you explain why there is such stable growth across the plan period considering DOC's operational challenges in the past few years.
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
2:51:10
I'm going to turn that over to our Deputy Commissioner of Finance.
Mala Srinivasan
2:51:19
Good afternoon.
2:51:21
My name is Marla Srinivas, and the commission of Budget And Finance.
2:51:26
In terms of operational in terms of the budget, our budget for earlier, $24,000,000,000 versus compared to a budget of $25,000,000,000.
2:51:43
We, as commissioner mentioned earlier, in the testimony, we plan to achieve this to savings due to operating below our authorized headcount and also over time reduction.
Sandy Nurse
2:52:00
Thank you for that.