Chair Lee on Office of Community Safety funding transfers

And then just staying on the topic of Office of Community Safety, it's a total funding of $269.6 million and 126 budgeted positions were added starting FY28 for the newly created Office of Community Safety.

Are you anticipating any further funding transfers and program shifts?

Because my understanding is that these are not new monies, so to speak, but it's already existing programs that are just sort of being restructured and reorganized.

So if you could speak to the budget for that, that would be great.

Yeah, I can speak to the component that is reflected within our work.

So the Office of Community Mental Health is moving completely over to the Office of Community Safety.

This is an office that on paper, the lines in the budget were associated with DOHMH, but we have not controlled those programs or those services at the Office of Community Mental Health.

So that whole structure will now shift over to OCS.

Let me hand it over to Aaron and see if he has anything else to add.

Yeah, and just to add, so in terms of numbers, so that means, you know, $3.2 million in 17 positions are moving as of FY28.

But again, that's just related to the Office of Community.

Right, OCMH, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

And how is this looking?

Because I think a lot of us are still, I don't know, we've gotten mixed feedback, but it seems like most people are still sort of not 100% clear on how OCS is going to be sort of

coexisting with a lot of the other city agencies that have pieces of the different portfolios that are now under them.

And so just wondering if you...

Sort of anticipate any funding transfers or you know how it would support some of the DOHMH programs and how you would work with them.

Yeah, how it's going is we're eager to do this work with them and ultimately we see that office and my counterpart commissioner as allies in doing this work together and we're ready to roll up our sleeves and get to work.

Specifically with regard to the mental health services, there's no plan to move those services to the Office of Community Safety.

That we currently run.

Okay, so we'll keep tabs on that as well.

And if obviously you hear anything, if you could let us know as well, that'd be great.