Council Member Narcisse on underfunded agencies and Department of Corrections
Narcisse asks which agencies IBO believes are underfunded. Chafee identifies Department of Corrections as not having enough funding, and notes IBO's limited access to H&H financials but coordination to obtain detailed statements, with options like alternate insurance or expanded free clinics to fill coverage gaps.
How many agencies that you realize that's under budget, if you have to say, right now, from the budget plan?
You have any agencies specifically that you can say that under budget?
Where we believe that the agency receives additional funding or should receive it.
We're concerned about Department of Corrections not having enough funding.
Yeah, that's...
I would also add to what Louisa said.
We have federal changes, local changes.
report specifically focusing on H&H.
And we do get access, or we coordinate with them to get their detailed financial statements, so we have that information.
But we are pretty limited in the amount of information we have.
But also in that report, we talk about, there are a couple of different ways that the city, the state could fill that gap.
They could provide alternate insurance for individuals, or they could expand the free clinic options that are available.
And we fully recognize that.
Those are maybe at capacity and would require substantial additional funds, but that is an option that we point out in the report.
Thank you.
Time is up for us.