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Council Member Linda Lee provides opening remarks on DOHMH's FY 2026 budget
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Council Member Linda Lee offers brief opening remarks for the hearing on the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's (DOHMH) fiscal year 2026 executive budget. She highlights the total budget for mental hygiene services and notes changes in federal and city funding compared to the previous year.
- The budget includes $774.9 million for mental hygiene services
- There's a reduction of $51.2 million in federal dollars and an increase of $21.1 million in city funds compared to FY 2025
- Lee expresses interest in discussing specific programmatic areas and budget questions
Linda Lee
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Hi, good morning everyone.
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I'll keep it brief.
0:03:48
It's good to see you all here.
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Thank you so much, acting commissioner, Commissioner Morse, as well as of course Deputy Commissioner Wright and all of the other fantastic folks that are here from DOHMH.
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I'll keep it brief because there's a lot of things in here but my colleague and chair Justin Brannen just mentioned a lot of it, but today we're going to be going through DOHMH's fiscal twenty six executive budget that includes 774,900,000.0 for the city's mental hygiene services which comprises of 63,100,000.0 for personnel services and 711,800,000.0 for other than personnel services.
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Services.
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The fiscal FY twenty six funding for mental hygiene reflects a reduction of 51,200,000.0 in federal dollars and an increase of 21,100,000.0 in city funds compared to the fiscal twenty five adopted budget.
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So hopefully we'll be able to go into that as well as a lot of different programmatic areas, questions that we have more specifically around the budget of these different programs, and so I look forward to hearing your testimony and also for the conversation that we're about to have right after this.
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So thank you all for being here and I will now pass it back to Chair Brandon.