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Clarification on CUNY's community college funding allocation
1:02:00
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Council Member Williams seeks clarification on CUNY's statement about community college funding allocation. CUNY officials explain their two-bucket approach:
- A base allocation of $33 million for each community college
- Additional funding allocated based on critical needs and potential system failures
• The approach aims to ensure all colleges receive some funding while addressing urgent infrastructure issues. • Examples like Bronx Community College are given to illustrate how aging infrastructure can lead to larger investments. • Officials emphasize that allocations may appear uneven due to emergency situations or immediate attention requirements.
Nantasha M. Williams
1:02:00
the Wait, you're saying that like each community college gets the same amount of capital money?
Hector Batista
1:02:04
In one bucket.
1:02:05
And then we have another bucket which really focus on those systems that that particular college we feel is gonna go offline.
1:02:15
And because they're gonna go offline, we're gonna allocate that college additional.
1:02:18
So the point of that, the way I laid it out for you was that everyone gets something, but we also, some schools get a little bit more because of the reports that we get and connect it to the state of their facilities or challenges they have in one of those systems.
Félix Matos Rodríguez
1:02:32
Like in Bronx Community College, years of not investing in that created a situation in which in a large campus, right, which also matters in terms of why we have to make sizable investments of capital.
1:02:44
So they will be seen as having more, but because of the aging infrastructure, force us to do that.
1:02:50
So that's some of the ways in which there might be some unevenness depending on more emergency situations or things that require a lot more immediate attention.