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Thomas-Henry asks about $200M budget and local business spending

New York City Council · Sep 30, 2026 · starts 2:17:53 · 1 min 25 sec

Thomas-Henry asks for the host committee's total budget. Lasry says it was upwards of $200 million, and Thomas-Henry asks how much was spent with local businesses and MWBEs.

Shanel Thomas-Henry

What was the total budget?

Member of the Public - Alex Lasry

We were upwards of $200 million.

Shanel Thomas-Henry

And of that $200 million,

Shanel Thomas-Henry

$100 million, $10 million was spent with local businesses?

Member of the Public - Alex Lasry

No, more than that was spent with local businesses.

Member of the Public - Alex Lasry

But again, we had to go across New York and New Jersey.

Shanel Thomas-Henry

Okay.

Shanel Thomas-Henry

Do you have an idea of what that small business or local business spend was?

Member of the Public - Alex Lasry

I can get that for you.

Shanel Thomas-Henry

Okay.

Shanel Thomas-Henry

And do you know, and of that number was roughly 30% of that to MWBEs?

Member of the Public - Alex Lasry

I mean, it's a little bit more, I don't think it's as simple as looking at how that broke out because for a lot of these mega events and kind of the big watch parties that we're putting on,

Member of the Public - Alex Lasry

one, we didn't produce a lot of them.

Member of the Public - Alex Lasry

So we would hire a production company.

Member of the Public - Alex Lasry

So for Central Park, Global Citizen would put that on.

Member of the Public - Alex Lasry

So it's a little bit more difficult for us to break out exactly how the percentages of spend there.

Member of the Public - Alex Lasry

Also, there are only so many companies that can actually put on some of those watch parties and have the resources to be able to do that in such a tight time frame.

Member of the Public - Alex Lasry

With that being said, I don't have the percent breakdown of what was spent with MWBs.