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Narcisse asks if administration is improving; Powell says cautiously optimistic

New York City Council · Oct 26, 2026 · starts 1:56:52 · 38 sec

Narcisse asks how the current administration feels to the union. Powell says it is better and a process, and that they are cautiously optimistic compared to where they came from.

Mercedes Narcisse

Then individual needs, and thank you for your work.

Mercedes Narcisse

Yeah, because we...

Mercedes Narcisse

Because you're helping us out.

Dalvney Powell

Because we are the true scales, we're the scales of justice, and we have to balance that social work law enforcement component.

Dalvney Powell

So we're like professionals in that regard.

Dalvney Powell

We're not the actual psychiatrists, but we have the ability to discern what the needs of an individual may be, and then we refer them accordingly.

Mercedes Narcisse

Okay.

Mercedes Narcisse

The programs that we're talking about, it is imperative when the child falls into that space for us to uplift them, take them out.