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Hanif asks about ethnic media outreach budget and strategy

New York City Council · Sep 18, 2026 · starts 1:03:27 · 1 min 12 sec

Hanif asks whether agencies use dedicated ethnic media budgets for outreach, and Shear says applications are available in all required languages online but needs to follow up on foreign language media spending, while Hanif offers to recommend ethnic media outlets.

Shahana Hanif

And then just in terms of keeping on topic with the outreach portion, I'm just going to skip around in my questions a little bit.

Shahana Hanif

But I know that to Councilmember...

Shahana Hanif

To Chair Zhuang's point, in terms of the media, one of the things that I believe used to happen, and I'm not sure if it's still happening, is that each agency has, I believe, a dedicated budget for local ethnic media.

Shahana Hanif

And so can you sort of talk about how that's been incorporated in a lot of the outreach efforts that you're working on?

Jeffrey Shear

I can't speak specifically to that.

Jeffrey Shear

I can say that our events are held in all five boroughs, all over the city, and that

Jeffrey Shear

We also have our applications are available in all required languages on the website.

Jeffrey Shear

I will need to get back to you regarding foreign language media.

Shahana Hanif

Okay, yeah, if you could just let us know and then also if you have any on the list and whether we can actually recommend any for you all as well, that would be great.