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Impact of budget cuts on Council Member Brooks-Powers' district
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Council Member Brooks-Powers inquires about the projected impact of budget cuts on her district, which has a significant number of older adults and several active senior centers. Commissioner Cortés-Vázquez states that no change in service levels is anticipated at this time.
- The Commissioner says there are no projections of center closures or service reductions yet
- DFTA had previously scoped out potential impacts when the fiscal cliff was first anticipated
- The Commissioner reiterates that current service levels are not expected to be impacted based on conversations with OMB
Selvena Brooks-Powers
0:42:39
And in my district, which has, as I mentioned, a significant number of older adults and several active senior centers, what is the projected impact of these cuts?
0:42:51
Are specific centers or programs at risk of closure or service reduction?
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
0:43:00
Given that at this time, we are not anticipating a change in, service levels, There is no projection of that.
0:43:12
Should that come to be, I will have discussions with each with the chair exactly as to what those that impact is.
0:43:21
Alright?
Selvena Brooks-Powers
0:43:22
So just to be clear, so is it that you don't foresee it just yet?
0:43:28
Or, like, as because when OMB made these recommendations for the cuts, has, like, Difta taken the steps to begin to kind of scope out what this means?
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
0:43:40
Yeah.
0:43:40
We we scoped out the impact a while back when we first anticipated this fiscal cliff.
0:43:48
There have been conversations with OMB since then.
0:43:52
And as we said, and I believe that the director also said in his testimony that the current service levels would not be impacted.