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Additional funding and resources for campus security at CUNY
1:31:46
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Council Member Eric Dinowitz inquires about additional funding authorized for campus security in anticipation of future protests. Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez outlines the measures CUNY has taken to enhance security across its campuses.
- CUNY has mobilized additional resources from nearby campuses
- Campuses have been given authority to bring in additional public safety staffing through existing contracts
- CUNY invested in additional guards that can be deployed across the system in case of emergencies
- These measures were implemented following experiences from previous protests, such as the one at CCNY last year
Eric Dinowitz
1:31:46
I understood it from there were no additional costs.
1:31:49
Have you authorized in anticipation of perhaps any other protest, additional funding to be spent on campus security?
Félix Matos Rodríguez
1:31:59
Yes.
1:32:01
Mean, we can give you a sense of those things.
1:32:06
That you know, first, and it happened at Brooklyn College, we mobilized additional resources from the nearby campuses, CUNY Safe campuses.
1:32:17
We have given instructions to the campuses that they have the authority.
1:32:21
They have some contracts that can bring in additional public safety staffing to assist them, right, they feel they might have situations coming up that might be complicated.
1:32:32
After the experience last year at CCNY, we invested in additional guards that we are deployed across the system that can then be redeployed in the case of an emergency.
1:32:44
And the COO can give more details on that.