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Contingency planning for potential federal funding cuts
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Council Member Diana Ayala inquires about DSS's contingency planning for potential federal funding cuts. Commissioner Molly Wasow Park responds that DSS is actively working on contingency planning but it's too early to share specific proposals.
- DSS is collaborating with other city agencies to address potential cuts
- There are no easy solutions due to the magnitude of potential cuts
- The city and state may not be able to backfill lost federal funding
Diana Ayala
0:29:00
Thank you, commissioner.
0:29:04
Okay.
0:29:04
We have a number of questions here, but just based on your testimony before I get to my questions, understanding that there's a real, you know, threat that the federal government is gonna cut vital resources, has there already been a conversation between DSS and OMB to start strategically talking through some contingency planning for the potential federal cuts?
Molly Wasow Park
0:29:32
We are actively working on contingency planning as an agency.
0:29:36
At this point it's too early for me to put any of the proposals out on the record.
0:29:42
We are still working through ideas.
0:29:45
I will say there are no easy solutions here given the magnitude of the potential cuts and as the budget director said I believe when he testified because it's not just DSS, right, it's every agency around city that's looking at significant federal cuts, I don't see a realistic pathway for the city or even the city and state to backfill what's potentially lost from the federal government.
0:30:08
It's really concerning.