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Council Member Ayala questions HRA on cash assistance budget discrepancy
1:26:08
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Council Member Diana I. Ayala inquires about a significant discrepancy in the Human Resources Administration's (HRA) cash assistance budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Commissioner Molly Wasow Park responds, acknowledging uncertainties in expenditure projections and the need for ongoing budget realignment.
- The council's preliminary budget response had called for addressing under-budgeting in cash assistance, which was not reflected in the executive plan.
- Ayala questions whether HRA realistically expects cash assistance expenditures to be $1 billion less than the current fiscal year.
- Commissioner Park indicates there are uncertainties in expenditure projections and the balance between city, state, and federal funds.
Diana I. Ayala
1:26:08
fiscal year twenty six the preliminary budget response the council called on the administration to address the under budgeting in the baseline for cash assistance.
1:26:17
However it was not addressed in the executive plan.
1:26:20
Does HRA realistically expect the cash assistance expenditures will be $1,000,000,000 less than next year in the current fiscal year?
Molly Wasow Park
1:26:30
There are reasonable points of uncertainty in exactly how much we will spend in the balance between city and state federal funds.
1:26:38
We work very closely with OMB to realign as we need to.
1:26:42
Okay.