Chair Lee opens DYCD FY27 executive budget hearing
Lee reconvenes for the second hearing on DYCD's FY27 executive budget of $1.62 billion, representing 1.3% of the city budget. She notes a $14.2M decrease from the preliminary plan due to savings from consulting contract elimination, vacancy reduction, and COLA adjustments.
Okay, I think we can go ahead and get started.
Okay, so good afternoon and welcome to today's second hearing about the FY27 executive budget.
And I'm Councilmember Linda Lee, and today we will hear from Department of Youth and Community Development.
And I'm pleased to be joined again by my colleague, Councilmember and Chair Althea Stevens.
And we have been joined by the Deputy Speaker.
Councilmember Maloney, Councilmember Epstein, Councilmember Wong, and Councilmember Felder.
And welcome, Commissioner, and your team, and thank you so much for joining us today to answer our questions.
And I just want to note, it's really cool that the three of us have all this former nonprofit experience, and I think there need to be more of us in government spaces, so I'll just say that.
I will just say that.
So on May 12, 2026, the administration released the executive financial plan for FY26 through 2030 with a proposed fiscal 27 budget of $124.7 billion.
The Department of Youth and Community Development's proposed FY27 budget of $1.62 billion represents 1.3% of the administration's proposed fiscal 27 budget in the executive plan.
This is a decrease of $14.2 million, or less than 1% from the $1.63 billion originally budgeted in the FY27 preliminary plan.
This decrease results from several actions, including savings the agency found through elimination of certain consulting contracts, vacancy reduction, COLA adjustments, and underspending in community resources for employment and development, and the ONS programs.