REMARKS
Council Member Justin Brannan opens final day of FY25 executive budget hearings
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Council Member Justin Brannan opens the 12th and final day of hearings on the FY25 executive budget. He introduces the session, acknowledges the presence of other council members and the controller, and outlines his focus for the day's questions.
- Brannan thanks the finance division staff for their work in preparing and executing the hearings.
- He mentions that his questions will focus on the city's debt limit, pensions, and the comptroller's office market report.
- The council member concludes by stating he will turn to the committee counsel to swear in the controller.
Justin Brannan
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Thank you, sergeant.
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I'm being told it's Wednesday.
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I don't I don't I do not believe it.
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Okay.
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Good morning, and welcome to the 12th and final day of hearings on the f y 24 executive budget.
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I'm being told I'm council member Justin Brannen, and I chair the committee on finance.
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We're joined this morning by council members, Villas, Hudson, Carr, and Moya on Zoom.
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Welcome, controller Brad Lander and your team.
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Thank you for joining us today to answer our questions.
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My questions this morning will largely focus on the city's debt limit, pensions, and the comptroller's office market, report.
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Before we start, I have to recognize this is our 12th and final day of hearings, and the council finance division, really makes magic happen behind the scenes.
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Both the staff that join us every day in the chamber and the small army that we have across the street at at 250 Broadway, for all their efforts in preparing and and making these these weeks weeks of hearings happen, including our CFO, deputy chief of staff, Tanisha Edwards, the senior staff, finance director, Richard Lee, managing director, Jonathan Rosenberg, deputy directors, Isha Wright, Chima Obucheir, Emera Adev, and Paul Simon, chief economist and assistant director Dilara Domenaku, assistant director Elizabeth Hoffman, the supervising economist Paul Sturm, Andrew Wilbur, and William Sheermatang, Unit Heads, Aliyah Ali, Jack Story, Julia Jeremous, Florentine Kabore, and James Reyes, and my committee counsel, Mike Toomey, who's been here with me for all 700 hours, and all the finance analysts who work really hard behind the scenes.
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I'll also read all this stuff later.
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Okay.
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I'm now gonna turn to our committee council to swear in the controller, and let's get let's get moving.
