Chair Lee on state budget priorities and Article 6 restoration

So it seems like most of the requests you submitted were approved.

What funding or policy priorities did DOHMH advocate for during the state budget process, and do you have any?

confirmation.

I know the state budget is winding down and finalized, but if you could speak a little bit to that in terms of your state priorities.

Well, I'll just say the one that's really important and just to say thank you to this council, to Chair Shulman, to you as well, Chair Lee, for helping to fight for Article 6 restoration.

It's a big, big, big deal.

That, you know, is tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars that we were being

blocked from receiving because of the disparity in terms of our match rate.

So thank you for that advocacy and for the commitment to that.

So I'm going to hand it to Aaron to see if there's any other pieces that he'd like to lift up.

Yeah, I mean, not much else to add, just that Article 6 restoration is a huge deal for the city and a huge deal for this agency.