Chair Dinowitz on unfunded council priorities
Dinowitz highlights unfunded priorities including restorative justice at half its current budget, mental health continuum gaps, student success centers, and missing immigrant family engagement funding.
Restorative justice is funded at only half of its current budget.
In fiscal 2027.
Many mental health clinics are in jeopardy of closing because of the gap in mental health continuum funding.
Student success centers face an uncertain future.
Funding for immigrant family engagement is missing from this plan despite being critically important given the current climate.
For immigrant communities.
All these services and programs are facing funding cliffs because they were not
Funded in the executive plan, and both I and the council will continue to push for these programs.