Chair Linda Lee opens ACS hearing with FY27 budget overview
Councilmember Linda Lee gavels in and introduces the hearing on ACS's FY27 executive budget of $3.51 billion, noting a $89.6M increase from preliminary plan. She highlights child care vouchers, Promise NYC baselining, and the 25,000-child voucher waitlist.
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Okay, wait, oh, got a gavel.
Always forget that part.
Good morning and welcome to day three of the fiscal FY27 executive budget hearings.
I'm Councilmember Linda Lee and today's hearings will begin with the Administration for Children's Services followed by Department of Youth and Community Development and the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs.
I'm pleased to be joined by my colleague and dear friend, Councilmember Althea Stevens, Chair of the Committee on Children and Youth.
And today we have been joined by Councilmember Marte, Councilmember Shulman, Councilmember Epstein, Councilmember Joseph, Councilmember Wong, and Deputy Speaker Williams is on Zoom.
Welcome, Commissioner Rebecca Jones-Gaston.
Week two, or day seven, rather, day six, to you and your team, and of course your amazing team.
Thank you all for joining us today to answer our questions.
On May 12, 2026, the administration released the executive financial plan for fiscal 2026 to 2027.
30, with a proposed FY27 budget of $124.7 billion.
The Administration for Children's Services proposed fiscal FY27 budget of $3.51 billion represents
2.7% of the administration's proposed FY27 budget in the executive plan, and this is an increase of $89.6 million, or 2.6%,
from the $3.42 billion originally budgeted in the FY27 preliminary plan.
This increase results from several actions, including additional funding added for child care vouchers, foster care, staffing across the agency, and a baselining of the Promise NYC program.