AGENCY TESTIMONY
Impact of cuts on libraries and cultural programs
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Comptroller Lander addresses the ongoing cuts to libraries and cultural programs, highlighting their disproportionate impact on various communities. He urges for restorations to these institutions' budgets.
- Cuts to libraries and cultural programs have an outsized impact on students, immigrants, and many others they serve
- The Comptroller urges the City Council to make restorations to cultural institutions and libraries
- Highlights that the city has not increased funding for COLAs (Cost of Living Adjustments) for staff in cultural institutions and libraries
- Emphasizes the disparity between these workers and other city workers who have received cost of living adjustments
Brad Lander
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While providing only small fiscal relief, cuts to libraries and cultural programs still leave an outsized impact on the students, immigrants, and many others that they serve.
0:13:06
You guys have had a lot about that, so it's in my written testimony, but I won't go through it here.
0:13:10
But I really do urge you to make restorations to the culturals and libraries.
0:13:17
Let me oh, one thing, though, on the that I on the culturals that I learned in conversation with them that I thought you guys should should know is the cultural insta the city has not increased funding in the cultural or library budgets for COLAs for staff, despite the fact that obviously now all city workers, other than a few of us, and, human service workers have seen cost of living adjustments.
0:13:41
Those workers did not get any adjustments in their the the the contracts from the city.
0:13:48
Okay.
0:13:48
The executive budget appropriately switching to the capital budget now.
