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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Overview of MOIA's mission, budget, and expanded services
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Commissioner Castro provides an update on MOIA's overall operations, highlighting its budget, staffing, and expanded services to support immigrant communities.
- MOIA's budget for FY2025 is approximately $26,700,000 with 64 personnel
- Expanded work with over 70 contracts with immigrant-serving nonprofits
- Increased investment in legal immigration services
Manuel Castro
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For today's testimony, I will provide a brief update on Moya overall and highlight four key areas of work of particular interest to our communities.
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Legal services, language access, English learning, and community engagement.
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First, an overall update on Moya.
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Moya remains steadfast in serving our immigrant communities within the limitations and constraints of our city charter responsibilities, which are to develop and implement policies designed to assist immigrants and non English speakers.
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My team, is currently resourced with 64 personnel in approximately $26,700,000 budget for fiscal twenty twenty five, will continue to go above and beyond our charter mandate to elevate the needs of our immigrant communities.
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During my tenure, we have increased the scale of our work with community organizations serving our communities in their neighborhoods and in their languages.
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We have over 70 contracts with immigrant serving nonprofits throughout the city which play an incredible role in assisting our neighbors in their time of need.
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Further, Moya has stepped up to provide more investment in legal immigration services than ever before, and Moya will continue to promote the utilization of services to our immigrant communities whether they arrive today or decades ago.