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Funding for street outreach in Manhattan
1:28:29
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Council Member Gale A. Brewer inquires about potential cuts to street outreach funding in Manhattan. Commissioner Molly Wasow Park addresses the concern and provides an update on the funding situation.
- There were timing issues with contracts for outreach work
- Funding added during the preliminary budget and announced at State of the City addressed the gaps in the outreach budget
- The brief exchange suggests that the funding situation for street outreach has been resolved
Gale A. Brewer
1:28:29
Secondly, I think there was a cut, and maybe I'm wrong, to street outreach in Manhattan.
1:28:34
Maybe administrator Carter knows, but has that been rectified?
1:28:38
Is that still existing?
1:28:39
What's the story?
Molly Wasow Park
1:28:40
Yeah.
1:28:41
There were
Gale A. Brewer
1:28:42
Well, she answered all my calls.
1:28:44
Thank you.
1:28:45
And you do too, but you all sometimes you say no.
1:28:47
That's the problem.
Molly Wasow Park
1:28:50
Sometimes have to say So there were some timing issues with the contracts around some of our outreach work.
1:29:01
I think the funding that was added during the preliminary budget and announced at State of the City, addressed the holes that we needed to address in the outreach budget.
Gale A. Brewer
1:29:09
Okay.