Councilmember Wong questions SYEP funding sources
Wong asks whether the $246M SYEP budget is primarily city or state funds. Officials confirm it's primarily city tax levy with a small TANF allocation from the state. Wong advocates for increasing SYEP scale and state funding.
Thank you.
Okay.
Quick question.
Quick.
City or state, right?
The $246 million for SYEP, is that primarily city funds or state?
It's primarily city funding with a small allocation of TANF funding from the state.
As I recall, SYEP historically gets state funding, or am I wrong here?
The scale of the state funding is very small in comparison to the amount of city tax levy that we have funding the program.
I see it's so successful.
I think the size of SYEP should increase, and I don't see that happening.
So please look into that.
Thank you.