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Detailed budget and staffing information for the Grandparent Resource Center
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Council Member Hudson seeks detailed information about the Grandparent Resource Center's budget and staffing allocation. Commissioner Cortés-Vázquez provides some figures and commits to following up with additional information.
- The full budget for the GRC in FY 2023 was $505,025,944
- Personal services were budgeted at $339,862 but actually expended $346,901
- The GRC was staffed by six employees at the time of closure
- After the program ended, staff were reassigned to other programs within the agency
- The funding source for the GRC was confirmed to be city tax levy (CTL) dollars
Crystal Hudson
0:41:36
Thank you.
0:41:38
In the fiscal twenty nineteen adopted budget for NYC Aging, we see budget lines that show the Grand Parent Resource Center was budgeted at $341,357 for four positions.
0:41:53
This remained the same through fiscal twenty twenty two.
0:41:57
Can NYC Aging confirm what the full budget was for the Grandparent Resource Center when it was in operation and what the funding covered?
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
0:42:07
I can get that for you.
0:42:09
Right?
0:42:10
But I know that at the end, we had six staff people.
Crystal Hudson
0:42:16
And I can With that with that same budget?
0:42:18
Six staff people for the same $341,003.57 dollars?
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
0:42:22
I can confirm the dollar amount.
0:42:23
I don't have that in front of me.
UNKNOWN
0:42:24
Okay.
0:42:25
What
Crystal Hudson
0:42:33
did what was the overall breakdown of personal services?
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
0:42:36
I'm sorry.
0:42:37
Chair.
0:42:38
I do have that information.
Crystal Hudson
0:42:39
Okay.
0:42:40
I believe I believe so.
0:42:43
The full budget for the Grandparent Resource Center So
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
0:42:46
the full budget for the Grandparent Resource Center was, for FY twenty three, right?
0:42:53
Was 346,901, right?
0:42:58
And personnel services funded 122,369.
0:43:05
Total was $505,025,944 dollars.
Crystal Hudson
0:43:15
Sorry.
0:43:16
FY '25, that number was?
0:43:18
Twenty three.
0:43:19
No.
0:43:20
FY '20 '3, you said $346,901.
Mahathi Yera
0:43:24
And personnel.
Crystal Hudson
0:43:25
Personnel services, one twenty two three six nine.
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
0:43:30
Personnel services for FY '23 were, budgeted at 339, 862.
0:43:44
We actually expended 346, 9 0 1.
0:43:52
The rest was in OTPS.
Crystal Hudson
0:43:58
That was personnel services, right, not OTPS?
0:44:01
That's an original number,
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
0:44:03
the 338.
0:44:05
Mhmm.
0:44:08
862 was for personal Personal services.
Crystal Hudson
0:44:13
Okay.
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
0:44:13
And we actually overexpanded that year.
Crystal Hudson
0:44:16
Okay.
0:44:19
What was the okay.
0:44:21
You gave us that.
0:44:23
What happened to the staff when the program ended?
0:44:28
The sick staff.
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
0:44:29
The staff, the grandparent resource staff were assigned to other programs within the, agency.
Crystal Hudson
0:44:42
And can you confirm the funding sources?
0:44:46
Can I?
0:44:47
Confirm the funding sources.
0:44:50
For those staff?
0:44:51
Yeah.
0:44:52
For the the for the budget for Grandparent Resource Center.
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
0:44:57
Other than what I just gave you for for?
Crystal Hudson
0:44:59
Not not the numbers, but the sources.
0:45:01
Was it city tax levy dollars?
0:45:02
Was it
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
0:45:03
Ah, I will have to get back to you on that.
Crystal Hudson
0:45:05
Okay.