Chair Avilés Questions Allocation of Baseline Legal Services Funding

Got it, perfect.

Okay, speaking of immigration legal services, um, you know, uh we're very excited to see roughly 33 million um comprised of 11.6 million added in the prelim uh for legal support centers and 21.3 million added for the expansion of immigrant legal services baseline starting in fiscal 2027.

Uh but there seemed to be and there was no additional funded added in the executive plan.

So I wanted to know what exactly will this additional funding added in pre-limb be used for.

Um, for example, which existing programs will be expanded, will there be new programs?

The additional funding is going to allow to us to continue the current programming while also expanding key support initiatives that we know the immigrant New Yorkers are depending on as part of the funding that was baselined.

The city increase in baseline funding for the RLC by three million dollars.

Is that this the because of the fast changing federal policies?

It forces and and the changes in in law as well.

It forces the immigration attorneys to have to sort of chase all of those changes and be nimble.

And we're really um we're proud that we were able to baseline some of the support, get additional resources in FY26 to make sure that that they have what they need to actually be nimble in that space.

So it's an expansion, it's not creating new programs.