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Hanif asks about disability-related extension requests

New York City Council · Sep 18, 2026 · starts 1:12:59 · 1 min 23 sec

Hanif asks how many disability-related reasonable accommodation requests were received, granted, and denied, and Shear reports 190 SCRIE requests in FY25 with 3 denied and 202 in FY26 with 2 denied, plus 41 DRI requests in FY25 with 2 denied and 72 in FY26 with 0 denied.

Shahana Hanif

And how many disability-related extension requests were received, granted, and then denied?

Jeffrey Shear

Okay, so.

Jeffrey Shear

For SCRI, in fiscal year 25, we received 190 what we call reasonable accommodation requests.

Jeffrey Shear

And in fiscal year 26, we received 202 reasonable accommodation requests.

Jeffrey Shear

Of those, for fiscal year 25, three were denied.

Jeffrey Shear

So more than 99% were approved.

Jeffrey Shear

And for fiscal year 25, only two of those were denied.

Shahana Hanif

Okay.

Shahana Hanif

And is it normal for you all to have only around that number?

Shahana Hanif

It seems like around 200.

Jeffrey Shear

Yes.

Shahana Hanif

Requests.

Shahana Hanif

Okay.

Shahana Hanif

It seems low.

Shahana Hanif

Okay.