Speaker Menin on budget investments in mental health, seniors, libraries, culture, and legal services
Menin outlines investments in mental health, swim safety, home-delivered meals, children's education, seniors aging in place, libraries at highest ever funding levels, HPD affordable housing on public library sites, $20 million more for cultural institutions, legal and immigrant legal services, $14.4 million for parks, and $5 million for deed theft prevention.
We also fought for programs that support mental health, swim safety, home-delivered meals.
We fought for our children to bolster their opportunities at a good education.
We fought for our seniors to help them age in place with dignity.
And we fought to fully fund our libraries to the highest ever levels.
I just want to repeat that.
This budget funds the libraries at our insistence to the highest levels ever.
And it also funds HPD's capital increase to build on that project that we put out a couple of years ago.
couple weeks ago to build 100% affordable housing on some public libraries throughout the city.
Because our city is also the world's cultural capital, we're investing 20 million more in cultural institutions.
And to provide more people with a path to justice, we fully restored funding
for a range of legal service providers, including immigrant legal service providers, which is so critically important, particularly at this time.
To support the management of clean parks, we are restoring $14.4 million in baseline funding
And to support black home ownership, we've secured more than $5 million in funding for deed theft prevention programs and legal counseling.