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Chair Brannan outlines budget priorities and concludes opening remarks
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Finance Chair Brannan emphasizes key budget priorities and concludes his opening remarks for the executive budget hearing.
- Brannan stresses the importance of preserving neighborhood cornerstones like parks, libraries, and cultural institutions.
- He advocates for protecting essential services such as housing, mental health care, and early childhood education.
- The chair outlines his focus for upcoming questions, including unincorporated business tax, sales tax reserves, agency headcount, and the capital budget.
- Brannan provides instructions for submitting written testimony for the hearing record.
Justin Brannan
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We have what we need to preserve neighborhood cornerstones like our parks, libraries, and cultural institutions, as well as to protect essential services like housing, mental health care, and early childhood education that keeps New Yorkers on their feet.
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The more we put and the more we invest into New Yorkers, the more New York City will get back.
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I'll have questions today focused largely on the unincorporated business tax, sales tax reserves, agency headcount, the capital budget, and several issues that came up in our prior hearings.
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Just as a reminder for everyone who's with us today, only written testimony will be admitted for today's hearing.
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So, you wish to submit written testimony for the record, you may email it to testimonycouncil.
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Nyc dot gov anytime up to seventy two hours after the conclusion of today's hearing.
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Audio and video recordings will not be admitted, but transcripts of such recordings can be attached and submitted.
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I'm now gonna turn it over to my committee counsel, Brian Sarfo, to swear everyone in and we can get started.