Chair Lee on baselining benefits for CUNY planning
Lee asks how baselining the $15 million allows CUNY to expand programs and free up funding. The Chancellor explains baselining provides predictability for personnel investments and procurement contracts beyond one year.
And then, is this funding and the baseline, how will it allow you to actually expand maybe perhaps on other programs and free up that funding?
Well, I mean, one of the main things is, and this is a recurring theme you'll hear from us throughout the hearing, baselining allows predictability and to make investments, particularly on the personnel side, that are not just one year off, right?
Right, so many.
So for many programs, and we'll be talking about this as you talked about Reconnect and ASAP and all those programs, our capacity to bring in individuals who are going to be able to be there for the long term allows us to plan better and to be more effective in the services.
Also, if we need to procure contracts, you know, you can now do that just with money that's going to be there for one year.
So they'd be extremely helpful to us as we move forward.
Right, so more planning purposes, which hopefully will help you plan better and then also figure out staffing, all of the other operational needs.
Okay.