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DVS budget details and discussions with OMB
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Council Member Holden inquires about the Department of Veterans Services' budget for fiscal years 2025 and 2026, focusing on new needs requests and discussions with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
- DVS's fiscal 2025 budget totals $7 million, including $2.9 million for other than personal services and $4.1 million for personal services.
- The budget supports 39 full-time positions and includes $575,000 for city council discretionary initiatives.
- Commissioner Hendon reveals that internal discussions with OMB are ongoing regarding DVS needs.
- Holden expresses concern about the lack of new needs requests in the preliminary plan.
Robert Holden
0:40:15
So, you know, in the preliminary plan, DVS's fiscal twenty twenty five budget totals 7,000,000 including other than personal services, funding of 2.9 and 4,100,000.0 for personal services, funding to support 39 budgeted full time, like you had mentioned, positions.
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The fiscal twenty twenty five budget includes 575,000 for city council discretionary initiatives that are not yet budgeted for fiscal year twenty twenty six or beyond.
0:40:51
DVS's preliminary plan did not include any new needs.
0:40:58
Did DBS request any new needs from OMB in advance of the preliminary plan?
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And if so, what were they?
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If not, why not?
0:41:09
So, mister Sherwood, we've
James Hendon
0:41:10
got internal discussions with OMB on that.
0:41:12
That's what I can say is that we have internal discussions with them.
0:41:15
We all see what's going on right here now as far as that we always can do more with more and what the current climate is internal to the city and what's happening on the federal side.
0:41:23
So the most I can say on this is that we're in internal conversations with our friends at OMB at this time.
0:41:29
Are they friends?