Linda Tigani
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Guided by these sources as well as public complaints of city agency action that may have the effect of exacerbating racial equity disparity, CORE continuously monitors and promotes legislation that serves to advance the city charter's central tenets of justly valuing all talents and contributions, ensuring the condition of thriving for every person, and embracing vigilance, remedy, and reconstruction.
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CORE's legislative team will also continue to implement special projects arising from legislative and community priorities.
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In fiscal year twenty twenty five, we launched a special project with the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy housed at The New School to adapt an equity budgeting tool that would allow New Yorkers to score the city's budget across the following categories, transparency and accountability, inclusive community engagement, engagement, equity focused decision making, equitable resource allocation, and equitable resource generation.
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Our conversation held on March '20 '20 '5 with your support is the first in a series of equity and budgeting conversations that our office is leading in fiscal year twenty twenty six.
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We look forward to collaborating with your team as well as the mayor's office of equity and racial justice in our city and community partners to increase community voices in government budget decisions and ensure that the f y twenty six and twenty seven budget cycle will do a better job of meeting the needs of the community.
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To that end, our office has put forward the following questions for all council members to ask agencies during the preliminary budget season.
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Can the agency or office describe how their work and the budget for fiscal year twenty twenty six reduces, perpetuates, or exacerbates racial inequity in service delivery and the criminalization of communities of color and poverty.
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Can the agency and our office explain whether the policies or invested investments presented for f y twenty six is based on needs and goals expressed by impacted communities.
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Does the investment reflect the foundational principles expressed in the preamble of the charter of the City Of New York?
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To achieve the multiracial democracy we deserve, we must ask these critical questions of all city agencies at every opportunity.
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Asking on record will allow us and the public to build trusts which will ensure an enduring partnership on a long road towards racial equity and social justice for all.
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A strong partnership between government and community is critical for redressing long standing harms that include, but are not limited to, the history of genocide against indigenous people of this land, chattel slavery, Jim Crow, and the legacy of race based exploitation, oppression, and discrimination.
