Chair Cabán on JISH budget and unit expansion
Cabán asks about JISH budget and units. Martin reports $10.4M in FY26 and $8.3M in FY27, with 120 operational units across Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. The goal is 350 units; Nichols explains the amended RFP raised rates, resulting in fewer units overall but higher per-unit funding.
I'm going to move over to Jish.
The total budget for JISH for FY26 and FY27?
FY26 total budget is $10.4 million and FY27 is $8.3 million.
You know, this is an incredibly important program.
As you know, Chair, being able to provide this service for someone who's recently incarcerated could literally mean the difference between life and death.
So it's a program that we take very seriously.
How many GISH units are currently in operation, and do you have the breakdown by borough?
We currently have 120 operational now.
I'm going to hand it over to Jamie Nichols to share more.
Yeah, those 120 units are spread across the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan.
They're all scattered site units, so the exact location may change a little bit.
So I don't have the split between each borough.
Okay.
We'd love to know what the split is between each borough.
And then, you know, the goal that y'all have stated is to reach 350 units eventually.
So what's the timeline of reaching that, do you think?
And how much money do you need to reach it?
Let me hand it to Jamie.
Yeah, so just this past February, we amended the open RFP to add additional funding.
So thank you.
We're excited about that.
The proposals are coming in.
We opened up the RFP for...
Scattered as well as congregate.
So we won't know the timeline for construction until we've reviewed the proposals, made the awards, and it moves further along in the finance.
A while from now.
Yeah.
Got it.
Do the contract savings in the exec plan include any GISH contracts?
That you're aware of?
Well, hand it to Aaron.
Not to my knowledge.
Let me hand it to Aaron.
The question was, are there any cuts to contracts?
Yeah, like, you know, there's a bunch of contract savings in the executive budget, and just wondering if any of those include any JISH contracts.
Oh, no, JISH is not a part of our savings.
Okay, got it.
Thank you.
Just give me a moment here.
I just want to see if I have anything left on this.
Oh, so the, you mentioned the GIST RFP, which excited that it was reissued.