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Overview of DYCD's fiscal year 2026 preliminary budget
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Council Member Stevens discusses DYCD's fiscal year 2026 preliminary budget, noting a 12% decrease from the previous year's adopted budget. The reduction is primarily due to the exclusion of $146.4 million in council discretionary funding.
- DYCD's FY2026 preliminary budget is $1.2 billion, down from $1.4 billion in FY2025
- The decrease is mainly attributed to the absence of council discretionary funding
- The discussion sets the stage for more detailed budget inquiries
Althea V. Stevens
0:22:08
Everybody knows I'm a softie for the beat.
0:22:12
Well thank you guys for being here and I'm really excited to dig in and I know you gave me a special shout out but let's give you DYC this shout out because I know you guys can't come in here and tell me what you want, but we all know that you guys are excited to get those hundred beds because you guys are the ones that we yell at.
0:22:28
And so thank you to you guys and we're really excited to hear about what those plans look like.
0:22:33
I said out there this morning, you know, if I'm gonna yell at people, I also gotta give them their flowers too and so we are a team and this is a win for us.
0:22:42
But y'all know I got bigger acts too, so now that we got the beds, I got some new acts.
0:22:51
DUICD's one point two billion dollar fiscal twenty twenty six budget budget in the preliminary plan is 160,200,000.0 or 12% less than the fiscal twenty twenty five adopted budget of 1,400,000,000.0.
0:23:09
The difference is mostly due to the hundred and 46,400,000.0 the council discretionary funding that was included at adoption.