Commissioner explains Fair Futures and Career Choice budget adjustments
Jones-Gaston explains the executive budget aligns Fair Futures and Career Choice spending with programmatic ramp-up, saving $2M CTL in FY26-27 for Fair Futures and $405K CTL for Career Choice, with no impact on services. Full ramp-up to 5,400 youth by FY29.
The executive budget better aligns anticipated spending levels of both Fair Futures and Career Choice with no impact on services to better match programmatic ramp up and allocated funding.
Specifically for Fair Futures, we plan for the program to grow in budget and use
served in both FY27 and 28, while saving about 2 million CTL in FY26 and 27 and 1.1 million in FY28.
We still anticipate full ramp up to 42.7 million and 54 youth by FY29.
Similarly, there is a 405,000 CTL and 1.1 million gross reduction in career choice in the current fiscal year 2026 due to the savings from the initial startup time needed for the program.