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QUESTION
What is the title and responsibilities of the NYC Aging position funded for the asylum seeker effort?
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The position funded for aiding NYC's asylum seeker effort has been restored to the Department for the Aging and reassigned with different responsibilities.
- The position initially intended for the asylum seeker effort was loaned and now returned to NYC Department for the Aging.
- The original purpose of aiding the asylum seeker effort is now being met by a different agency within the Department for the Aging.
- The $164,000 allocated for this position remains with the NYC Department for the Aging.
- This position will now report within the NYC Department for the Aging and have responsibilities unrelated to the asylum seeker effort.
Crystal Hudson
1:52:56
In the November plan, there's an addition of a $164,000 in state funding added to NYC Aging's budget for a single position relating to the city's asylum secret effort.
1:53:08
The position in funding were added in fiscal 24 and fiscal 25.
1:53:12
Can you tell us the title and responsibilities of that position?
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
1:53:18
That was a position that we had on loan, and that position has been restored back to the Department for the Aging.
Crystal Hudson
1:53:28
You're saying that the position that was allocated specifically for
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
1:53:31
the asylum secret effort was a loan position that has been restored to the department for the aging.
Crystal Hudson
1:53:38
Meaning, the original intended purpose is not is no no longer
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
1:53:42
It is being met.
1:53:43
Is being met is being met by another agency in the Department for the Aging.
Crystal Hudson
1:53:49
Okay.
1:53:50
But you still have that $164,000.
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We're saying that position and that head count.
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It's yours now.
1:53:58
Okay.
1:53:58
So that position will report to somebody in NYC Aging and no longer have anything to do with the asylum seeker.
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
1:54:05
That is that is correct.
Crystal Hudson
1:54:06
Okay.
1:54:07
Thank you.