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Chair Lee Questions ACS on State and Federal Funding Reductions

New York City Council · May 28, 2026 · starts 0:33:57 · 1 min 17 sec

Chair Linda Lee asks about the total loss in state and federal funding from the savings measures and whether ACS met its overall savings target of 1.5 percent.

Rebecca Jones Gaston

And several savings measures included a reduction of state and or federal funding.

Rebecca Jones Gaston

And what is the total loss in funding from each state and federal source from savings?

Rebecca Jones Gaston

And can any of this funding be shifted to different programs?

Rebecca Jones Gaston

Yeah, so the the revenue that was taken down is representative of the as if every CTL dollar we spend, we're able to draw down revenue.

Rebecca Jones Gaston

So the revenue can't really be transferred because we need the CTL dollar to draw it down.

Rebecca Jones Gaston

Give me one second, I'll tell you what the total value of take down is.

Linda Lee

Please do, I don't know if I don't want to disturb please do come back to it.

Linda Lee

Because I'm bad at multitasking, so I you know never assume.

Linda Lee

Um so were you able to hit the target of the savings rate this year for the targeted amount?

Rebecca Jones Gaston

1.5%.