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MyCity portal funding for fiscal years 2025 and 2026
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Council Member Jennifer Gutiérrez inquires about the funding allocated for the MyCity portal in fiscal years 2025 and 2026. OTI officials provide the budget figures and explain the differences in funding between the two years.
- FY2025 budget for MyCity: $14 million
- FY2026 budget for MyCity: $5.7 million
- Explanation provided for the funding difference, focusing on the development phases and components of the MyCity portal
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:10:33
Can you share the funding allocated for fiscal year twenty five and f y twenty twenty six for MyCity?
0:10:42
Just the dollar amounts.
Matthew C. Fraser
0:10:43
Yeah.
0:10:44
For the specifics around the budget allocation for MyCity, I defer to the deputy deputy commissioner of management and budget.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:10:49
Okay.
0:10:50
Thank you.
Edwin Pemberton
0:10:55
For my city fiscal year twenty twenty five, the the budget is $14,000,000.
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And for fiscal year twenty six, it's $5,700,000.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:11:11
Okay.
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And is there anything that you can share on the the difference in funding streams?
0:11:20
Just just if you can explain a little bit about the amount of investment, the decision behind the difference in investment year to year.
Edwin Pemberton
0:11:27
We we have to do like, projections on what portals are actually gonna be established.
Joseph Bach
0:11:35
Mhmm.
Edwin Pemberton
0:11:35
So every year, we work with with the city on deciding the cost of those portals.
0:11:40
So we work with OMB to get funding annually for my city.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:11:44
Right.
0:11:44
And so can you just explain what the I'd like to recognize committee member council member Julie Wan who's joined us.
0:11:53
14,000,000 in f y twenty twenty five, '5 point '7 in 2026.
0:11:57
Is there anything specific that you want to highlight as to what the the difference is?
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Like why?
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So much less?
Matthew C. Fraser
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Yeah.
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So the first phase of My City was focused around childcare.
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It was building a use case that we could test very quickly that covered a necessary gap in city services.
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So when we started with childcare, we got a lot of success behind that.
0:12:16
We expanded to the business portal and then beyond the business portal, we expanded to add chat capabilities.
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Since then, we built an integration pipeline so that city agencies can more easily build integrations into the MyCity umbrella.
0:12:31
So when we look across the last fiscal year twenty five's lion's share of the work was focused on building a common services portal.
0:12:41
So when you think about common services, you think about things like authentication when you sign into a website, integration of data sources, a data pipeline, and then a content store, a single place where you can store information, and building a guidebook so the agencies as they look to build into the MyCity framework, they have a guide that shows them how to build those integrations in place.
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So that a lot of that work was necessary so that in the future phases, the developments would become less expensive and it'll also create a proper foundation so that we don't have to we don't have to build the same components over and over again.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:13:16
Thank you.