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Concerns about lack of food support in District 16
1:03:18
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Council Member Stevens expresses frustration about the lack of adequate food support in her district, despite the high needs and oversaturation of shelters.
- She criticizes the department for not providing sufficient support to handle the influx of people with high needs.
- Stevens emphasizes the need for better evaluation and service provision in communities with existing high needs.
- She calls for the department to reassess their approach to ensure proper support for overburdened communities.
Althea V. Stevens
1:03:18
So that's a problem.
1:03:19
You guys are over saturating specifically The Bronx with these things and then not looking at how to evaluate to make sure you're all setting the needs.
1:03:26
And this is one of the things I talk about a lot is that we're it's not that we don't want them there, you guys don't give us the support to be able to handle the amount of things you're putting there.
1:03:35
And so I think that this is something you need to really take back and really be evaluating of like, okay, we already have communities that have such high needs and then we oversaturated with more people who have that high needs and then we're not giving them the services and then we're kind of left to figure it out.
1:03:50
And I guess my question even around the health bucks too, know you guys were talking about health bucks and partnering with DOH you are giving health bucks to organizations because the only health bucks I've also seen in my districts are the ones that I fund, so I'm trying to get an understanding of where the ones you're funding and how do my residents get access for that because they're only the ones that I fund that I've seen in my district.