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NYPD budget requests and structural underfunding for FY 2026
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Council Member Yusef Salaam inquires about the NYPD's budget requests for fiscal year 2026. Deputy Commissioner Kristine Ryan outlines the primary requests, focusing on areas of structural underfunding in the budget.
- $42 million needed in the current year and $98 million in the baseline for IT funding
- $35 million requested over three fiscal years for fleet funding
- Projected need for up to $300 million in additional city tax levy funding for overtime budget
Yusef Salaam
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Start off by asking the budget requests that have been submitted to the administration for the NYPD.
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Can you summarize the request made for fiscal twenty twenty six and what requests were not funded in the preliminary plan that you hope will be included in the executive and adopted plans?
Kristine Ryan
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Good morning.
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The primary requests that we've made have been in the areas where we have structural underfunding in our budget, so that includes requests for additional IT funding.
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We need approximately $42,000,000 in the current year, 98,000,000 in the baseline.
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That's to ensure we can continue to support and expand critical data and software critical systems and software, growing data and data analysis needs need to be addressed, as well as making sure that we have the appropriate funding for maintaining a safe and cybersecurity posture.
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We also submitted a request for our fleet.
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As you are probably aware, our response vehicles are not currently capitally eligible and we have a structural underfunding in our budget as result of a series of cuts in prior budgets to the funding for our fleet.
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So we've requested $35,000,000 in the next three fiscal years for our fleet to ensure we have an appropriate life cycle replacement for those very important first line response vehicles.
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And of course, over time, those projections are still being finalized, but our over time budget also begins each year.
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This has been the case for the last five fiscal years significantly underfunded, and so we project at this point we'll need up to approximately 300,000,000 in additional city tax levy funding for our overtime budget.