QUESTION
What caused the significant drop in federal funding for the Department of Sanitation and how did it impact service levels?
1:41:39
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30 sec
The Department of Sanitation experienced a drop in federal funding from an original 20% to 11%. The Commissioner explains that the reduced federal funding was replaced with city dollars and did not affect service levels.
- Federal funding for the Department of Sanitation decreased significantly
- The original federal funding level was 20%
- It dropped to 11%
- The lost federal funds were replaced with city dollars
- This funding shift did not impact the department's service levels
Susan Zhuang
1:41:39
The first one is, what's the reason why we lost significant federal funding?
1:41:46
Dropped the federal funding portion, original 20% dropped to 11%.
Jessica Tisch
1:41:52
Yeah.
1:41:52
That didn't affect our service levels.
1:41:54
That was more of budgetary thing where we lost the federal funding that's been replaced with Citi dollars.
Susan Zhuang
1:42:04
Okay.
1:42:05
So that's not affect
Jessica Tisch
1:42:07
It does not affect our service levels.