Q&A
Impact of budget cuts and sanitation department funding needs
2:03:16
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87 sec
IBO officials discuss the disproportionate impact of budget cuts on various services and address Council Member Williams' question about sanitation department funding needs.
- IBO emphasizes that small fiscal reductions can have large impacts on people, particularly in legal services, senior services, and early learn services
- Council Member Williams inquires about sanitation department funding, mentioning the need for more funds for uniformed public service workers
- IBO identifies increases in expected overtime costs for sanitation workers
- Additional funding needs are projected for waste export contracts, which tend to increase year after year
Louisa Chafee
2:03:16
Do you want to?
2:03:17
I think, we'd be happy to talk with you in detail because there, are many different reductions, but I think the, one of the points that we wanted to stress was that at times, fiscal sums in relationship to the size of the budget are being, have been removed through the PEG process, which seem relatively small but have really large impact on people.
2:03:41
And so it's a disproportionate impact, in legal services, in senior services, in the consistent funding of early learn services, and so while the dollar sums may not be overly large, the consequences to people no longer having access to those services can be pretty intense.
2:04:04
But we'd be happy to share with you lots of spreadsheets to give you far more granular detail.
Nantasha Williams
2:04:10
Yeah.
2:04:11
Thank you.
2:04:11
Because I know we didn't talk about, like, sanitation, and I know in your report you mentioned the need, potentially, for more funds for uniformed, public service workers.
2:04:20
So, yeah, just wanted to understand that a little bit more.
2:04:23
Thank you.
Sarah Parker
2:04:23
For sanitation, we have both, increases in expected overtime costs, and that's just through the cycle of doing business over the course of a year.
2:04:35
And one of the other areas that we did, an adjustment to the budget is, the cost for waste export contracts, which tend to go up year after year.
