Chair Lee Opens MOIA Executive Budget Hearing
Chair Linda Lee opens the third part of the joint hearing, introducing the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) proposed FY27 budget and highlighting key areas of focus.
Quiet down, please.
We are getting ready to begin with our next panel.
Quiet down, please, quiet in the chambers.
We are getting ready to begin.
Just the reminder no one may approach the dais at any time during this hearing.
There are no food or beverages allowed in this room as well.
Please find your seats.
Okay, everyone, please find their seat.
We are getting ready to begin.
Please find your seat and quiet down, please.
Quiet in the chambers.
Just a reminder: no one may approach the dais.
No food or beverages are allowed in this room.
Chairs.
Great, thank you.
All right.
It's good to see familiar faces.
Um, okay.
So good afternoon, and welcome to today's third hearing uh about the uh FY27 executive budget.
Uh, Councilmember Linda Lee, and I'm glad to be joined today.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Glad to be joined today by my colleague, uh, Chair Elsie Encarnacion, uh, Chair of the Committee on Immigration.
Um, and we have been joined by our Deputy Speaker Williams, Councilmember Brewer, Councilmember Joseph, Councilmember Wong, and Councilmember Aviles.
Um, welcome to a familiar face, Commissioner Faiza Ali and your team.
Um, thank you all for joining us today to answer our questions.
On May twelfth, 2026, the administration released the executive financial plan for FY26 to 30 with a proposed FY27 budget of 124.7 billion.
The Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs proposed fiscal 27 budget of $781,962 represents.00063.
And I feel like that's important to note with such a sizable immigration immigrant population in our city.
But of the administration's proposed FY27 budget and the executive plan.
And this remains unchanged from the originally budgeted amount in the fiscal 27 preliminary plan.
As of April 26, Moya's headcount was 31 less or three less, I'm sorry, than their fiscal 26 budgeted headcount.
In the council's preliminary budget response, we called on the mayor to ensure the critical and essential services we provide to our immigrant population be upheld and that we safeguard programs that may be at risk with any possible federal funding cuts.
And my questions are largely going to focus on a bunch of the services around the AIPI community funding, the consolidation of all immigrant services into a single agency, of course, contracts, payment delays, which is one of our favorite topics, prioritizing access to mental health and health services, the legal support hotline, city preparing for the 2030 census, and also Moya's role in preparing for the 26 FIFA World Cup.
And I now want to turn it over to my co-chair for this hearing, Chair Incarnacion, for her opening statement.