AGENCY TESTIMONY
Intersection of racial equity planning with the city's budget process
1:22:57
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Linda Tigani discusses the crucial intersection between racial equity planning and the city's budget process. She emphasizes the importance of aligning these processes to ensure effective resource allocation for advancing racial equity.
- The Racial Justice Commission intended for racial equity plans to intersect with the city's budget process
- The commission directed the executive branch to develop racial equity plans simultaneously with the citywide budget
- Departing from this aim risks undermining the city's capacity to ensure all New Yorkers can thrive
- The delay in racial equity planning has impacted the FY2026 budgeting cycle
Linda Tigani
1:22:57
Structural change requires a sincere effort, political will, and significant investments, all imperatives that are made explicit by the Racial Justice Commission when it introduced the city's racial equity planning timeline.
1:23:12
Noting the importance of budgeting and resource prioritization to racial justice process, the commission unambiguously expressed its intent for the racial equity plan to intersect with the city's budget process and prefaced the timeline with a clear directive for the city's executive branch to develop racial equity plans simultaneously with its development of the citywide budget before the budget is submitted to city council.
1:23:40
In departing from this aim, the city risks undermining its capacity to ensure that all New Yorkers enjoy the opportunity to thrive.