Chair Avilés Questions Planning for Federal Clawbacks and Reserves
Chair Alexa Avilés asks how MOIA is planning for potential federal clawbacks of legal service funding and whether any emergency budget reserves exist.
That would be very helpful.
Thank you for that.
And and do you know of any of this new funding will be allocated directly to vendors?
All of it.
All of it?
Perfect.
And have you thought about, and I'm sure you have thought about this, so that was that part is rhetorical.
Uh, but how are you thinking about and planning for potential federal clawbacks of legal service funding or restrictions on who can be served?
Yeah, it's one of the things that keeps you up at night.
Um, but I think it's really important to highlight that our legal services are funded by the city, uh, which shields them from direct federal clawbacks.
However, we are actively you know tracking what the what can be trickle-down effects from federal funding cuts and restrictions on on whom our organizations and providers can serve.
We remain, um, like I said, in in close communication with our agency partners regarding federal policy changes and any threats to accessing services.
Um, specifically, we've been talking to our partners and agencies around the mixed uh status rule change that's being proposed by HUD.
Um, and and of course, you know, staying in close communication with our providers who they flag uh you know emerging issues that they see on the ground regularly.
Do you know if there would be like budget reserves for those kind of emergency situations or something that would happen, you know, it could be overnight with this federal administration.
Um are there any kind of reserves specifically for uh Moya?
Yeah, that's that's something that I would have to circle back with you on.
I'm I'm unsure.
Okay.