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Importance of Community Justice Initiative legal services for public safety efforts
2:10:49
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Council Member Stevens emphasizes the critical role of Community Justice Initiative (CJI) legal services in supporting community needs and eradicating gun violence. She urges DYCD to prioritize restoring funding and maintaining comprehensive support for public safety initiatives.
- CJI legal services are crucial for Crisis Management System (CMS) organizations to meet community needs
- The importance of maintaining all components of public safety efforts, including CJI, is stressed
- Recent reports from the Controller and City Council highlight the effectiveness of CMS in reducing gun violence
- Council Member Stevens commits to advocating for CJI funding restoration with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Althea V. Stevens
2:10:49
Yeah.
2:10:50
I mean they are still doing the work, but they still need the funding and so just thinking about what the CMA organizations rely on CJI legal services to meet community needs and support their mission to eradicate gun violence.
2:11:02
So what is DYC's plan to you know either fight for it or try to get this restored because this is something that works hand in hand and and the overall mission around CMS and we don't want to just have piecemeal.
2:11:15
So what are we doing around that?
Keith Howard
2:11:17
So I I had the opportunity to to really see their services up close and personal in terms of the way they have supported not only the CMS system but our participants across the board.
2:11:33
As deputy commissioner Ratway said, their support and their service is vital to what we're doing.
2:11:41
Those are going to be ongoing conversations that we're gonna have with OMB.
Althea V. Stevens
2:11:45
Thank you.
2:11:47
And I guess the last question I'll just ask around this is you know CJAU was was critical in the public safety plan and public safety has been a key key aspect.
2:11:58
So just thinking about was like for the last year how do we continue to sustain public safety and talk about reducing gun violence with others.
2:12:07
So I know you said you're gonna have conversation with OMB, definitely will add this to my list of things to go and talk to them about as well but I do think this is something that we do have to talk about because as CMS is building out and we know it's reducing gun violence, I believe the controller put out a report recently around it, council put out a report around CMS's work as well and so we want to make sure that as it's building out that we are not leaving out critical pieces and just also just ensuring that ensuring that now that it's under DYCD we don't want it to be like oh it's over there now and it's messing up.
2:12:45
So I want to make sure that we have all the tools that are necessary for us to be successful in what was given to us and not just piecemeal.
2:12:53
So I will leave it at that.
2:12:55
I guess deputy commissioner Haskins is gonna come up because we're gonna be moving on to Runaway Youth.
2:13:01
Thank you Darius for your services.
2:13:05
So I want to talk a little bit about the additional hundred beds we have and some homeless minority stuff.
2:13:21
So the preliminary budget includes a baseline of 6,000,000 for the hundred additional beds for young people ages 21 to 24.
2:13:28
Is the funding significant to meet the needs of the RHY programming?