Won asks for follow-up on $600M green career pathways breakdown
Won returns and asks if the team has updates on the $600 million breakdown. Perry says they looked into it but need to work with partner agencies, as the $600 million reflects FY24 funding across multiple youth programs like DYCD's Advance and Earn, not exclusively green economy. Won presses on whether the $600 million is specifically for green career pathways as the plan stated.
Thank you so much.
I want to go back to what we were talking about earlier.
Does your team have updates on the numbers that we asked for follow-up?
So we did look into it.
Unfortunately, we will have to work closer with our colleagues across the various agencies.
As I mentioned, that $600 million is a reflection of the FY24 budget, which goes into a variety of programs that serve a broad scope of young people for a broad scope of jobs.
So take, for example, like DYC's Advance and Earn and Learn and Earn.
Those serve out-of-school, out-of-work youth.
There are specific parts of those programs and pathways for jobs in the green economy, but it's not exclusively for that.
So we'll have to go back and work with our partners at those city agencies to get you a more clarified number.
But it's supposed to be $600 million in green career pathways, correct?
So it has to be for green career pathways because that's what your plan said.
The $600 million was specifically just tied to the youth action.
Plan was not exclusively tied to green pathways.
And so some of those jobs will, we are happy to work with our partners to try to figure out what that portion of 600 million is specific to green economy, but not all of the 600 million was tied specific to the green economy.
Okay, so when do you think you'll have that follow up for us by?
We will work as soon as we can.
Well, we've worked with our colleagues on getting some of the data.
We didn't get that particular piece.
We're happy to go back and work with them and try to get that as soon as possible.
So when is as soon as possible?
Is that like end of this month?
Is it next month?
I'm happy to work.
I don't want to speak on behalf of some of the complexity in terms of it's a big number and there's a lot of different programs that go into it.
So I'm happy to work and get you an answer as soon as we can.
$600 million is a very significant amount of taxpayer dollars.
So I think the public deserves to know.
So I hope by end of next month, you will get us those numbers of exactly where the $600 million are being spent for.