Chair Lee Inquires About Direct Service Impacts of Savings Measures

And so, you know, just wanting to make sure that that was actually the case because you said sunsetting contracts and looking at other programs, and so uh which programs and services, if at all, were included in the savings measures, and will any direct services or programs see a decrease in funding from the savings exercise?

Um sure.

So the the majority of our savings initiatives actually came out of maximizing revenue, so um more than half came through um realizing additional fringe that we were able to receive as well as additional miscellaneous revenues out of audit.

Um, in terms of um programs that were sunsetted, we sunsetted some administrative contracts.

Uh we made reductions for IT savings based on underspending in uh our Xerox contract.

Um we had some programs that had already sunset, including Esperanza.

Um we also looked at uh looking at surpluses in our committee on special education funding.

Um we slowed down the ramp up of some programs that we had received funding as of uh last exec for our youth safety and success initiative, and that includes identifying accrualed savings accrued savings in FY26 for the career choice program as well as slowing the ramp up of our Fair Futures program.

And then we also had savings through prevention contracts.

Um we are ending four contracts for prevention.

And so that all of the family and children will continue to be served.

Okay.

And a lot of the slowing of the ramp up was because of capacity hiring processes, that sort of thing, like to onboard.

Okay.

I know that my colleagues probably have more questions about some of those, so I'll save that for them.