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Council Member Holden inquires about the current size of DVS's veteran contact database. Commissioner Hendon and Jason Loughran provide information on the database's growth and estimated veteran population in New York City.
- Current database contains contact information for 140,000 veterans
- Estimated total veteran population in NYC is between 230,000 to 250,000
- Database has grown significantly from an initial 3,000 or 35,000 contacts
Robert Holden
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And and how many veterans do do you do you have, I mean, off the top of your head, how many veterans do you have their their email addresses and they're they're it's working?
1:04:19
Do you know that you communicate with them?
Mercedes Elias
1:04:21
Do you
Robert Holden
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have any
Jason Loughran
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For everyone?
1:04:22
Our our entire The whole city.
1:04:24
The whole city?
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Mister Commissioner, you asked
Robert Holden
1:04:26
for this
James Hendon
1:04:26
is where we're at 140,000 is the count?
1:04:28
Yeah.
Robert Holden
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As far as what You have emails for a
James Hendon
1:04:30
140,000 veterans?
1:04:31
It's 140,000.
1:04:32
We're working to get that number up.
1:04:34
We estimate that it'd be north of 200,000 veterans in the city.
1:04:37
My personal estimate is somewhere between 230,250,000.
1:04:40
It's so many because a lot of the guardsmen and reservists who never served on active duty are not counted by the feds.
1:04:45
So, like, the census would say a 140 a 135,000.
1:04:48
The census says, yeah, we have a 140,000 in reality right now, so the numbers are higher than what the feds say they are.
Jason Loughran
1:04:53
Yeah.
1:04:53
And and, chair, when when commissioner Holden, took the position of commissioner, that number that we had touches on for contact information, I think was around 3,000 at the time.
James Hendon
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It was somewhere around 35,000.
1:05:06
So we've gotten we've done we've been working to This is what we've been doing since
Robert Holden
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So you went from 3,000 to a 140,000?
1:05:12
Yes.
James Hendon
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And we're trying to get it's a lot of things we're doing
Robert Holden
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to get That's an accomplishment.