Lee on DCWP's $78.4M FY27 budget and headcount increases
Lee details DCWP's $78.4M FY27 budget, a 5% increase, with 77 new positions in FY27 growing to 181 by FY29. She notes the mayor's pledge to double DCWP's budget and the agency's 19.3% vacancy rate.
On May 12, 2026, the administration released the executive financial plan for FY26 to FY30 with a proposed FY27 budget of $124.7 billion.
The Department of Consumer and Worker Protections proposed FY27 budget of $78.4 million represents less than 1% of the administration's proposed FY27 budget in the executive plan.
And this is an increase of 3.7 million or 5% from the
The $74.7 million originally budgeted in the FY27 preliminary plan.
This increase results from several actions, mostly from the significant and sustained increase of 77 positions at DCWP in FY27, increasing to 181 positions in 2029.
As of April 26, DCWP's budget headcount was 85 more than their fiscal 26 budgeted headcount.
Further, the mayor announced plans to double the budget of DCWP in order to strengthen worker protections and enforcement.
In addition, DCWP has 19.3% vacancy rate that makes it difficult to meet its operational demands.
And we were pleased to see that these additional funds were partially included in the plan.
My questions will largely focus on the mayor's campaign promise where he pledged to double the agency's budget, savings from OFE's re-estimation of the financial literacy expansion, and the savings that we are seeing from discontinuing the cloud migration program.
And now at this time, I will turn it over to Speaker Menon for her remarks.