Zhuang asks about state vs city implementation and prior legislation impact
Zhuang asks about the responsibility split between DOF and state DHCR and whether prior council legislation expanding income limits produced projected enrollment increases, with Shear noting no confusion with DHCR and attributing enrollment declines to pandemic factors rather than legislation.
How does the city implement screen and the tree compared to state oversight rule?
Where does responsibility split between DOF and New York State DHCR?
Are there any gap between and the conflict for applications?
I'm sorry, conflict?
Yeah, create a confusion.
I mean, confusion for applications.
I'm not aware of that being an issue.
So there's no gap.
It's easy.
It's always challenging.
But I am not aware of confusion because of DOHCR.
What has been the status and the impact of prior council legislation expanding free and free income limits, including whether it's
produced the enrollment increase projected at the time?
So unfortunately,
During the pandemic, enrollment did decline in the programs.
We don't think that was attributable to council legislation, but factors beyond our control.