Council Member Joseph Questions Summer Rising Budget and Outstanding Payments
Council Member Rita Joseph asks for the total Summer Rising budget and requests an update on outstanding FY25 payments owed to after-school providers.
Thank you.
Perfect.
I will add you to the list.
Uh, Councilmember Joseph, followed by Councilmember Ressler.
Thank you, Chairs.
And I hope young people are also at the table when you're making these decisions and their voices are centered.
Thank you so much.
Um, you know what my favorite topic is?
What is the total budget for Summarizing program?
And can you provide the status update on the number of providers for the summarizing program remaining outstanding or not receiving payments for FY25 service?
You know the city love to owe people.
How are we doing on that?
Well, hello.
Hello.
Hi.
So summarizing our budget for FY27 is uh 151 million.
We're grateful that the most recent administration did it based on restoration and the JAN plan.
And so we know for this upcoming summer that funding is um restored and they'll have continuity of services.
Um what was your other question?
We're hearing from providers that haven't been paid from FY25.
All of our FY26 amendments, um, inclusive of summarizing, are pretty much registered.
Um I'll just give you exact number.
But for the most part, um for FY27, 98% of our um registr um amendments associated with all types of um increases to funding um have been moved and about and this is FY25.
They wanted to know why is the delays and providers have been a form of why there's a delay.
Do you inform the providers when there's a delay in payments?
What do you say to them?
For payments, um, usually we inform them that there's a delay, but currently there has not been any substantial delay in payments.
I think what they're referencing is some maybe saying they have not received their funding, additional funding.
Um, if that's the case, I ask that they reach out to our help desk and we can look into it.
But to my knowledge, all implementations for prior summers for summarising were um included in a release to providers, and so we can always talk offline and let you know who the provider is.