Opposition to Mayoral Budget Cuts:

Council Member Letitia James opposes the Mayoral Budget Cuts proposed, as outlined below:

Service cuts proposed in the Mayor’s November Plan (PEGs)

New York Police Department [NYPD]:	COST OF CUTTING THIS SERVICE
Elimination of the January 2009 Police Academy Class and limiting the six subsequent classes from FY10 through FY12 to 2,000 hires each	$252.2 million in FY09-12
Department of Health [DOH]:
Closing an East-Harlem STD Clinic	$426,000
Elimination of Oral Health Program; 44 oral health sites throughout the city will close as a result	$4.4million
Administration for Children’s Services [ACS]:
Childcare co-payments will be increase for non-public assistance families. Weekly minimums will increase by $2 per child	$1.8million in FY09; $8.7million in FY10+
Increasing Level I Supervisor Caseloads; the agency will reduce the child protective services staffing model by 127 positions. This will require Child Protective Level Supervisors to carry a full caseload, focusing on more complex investigations	$3.7million in FY09; $3.8 million in FY10+
Eliminate payments for the Living for the Young Family through Education Program [LYFE], which supports pregnant and parenting students enrolled in DOE schools by providing childcare and referral services	$1.6 million in FY09; $3.2 million in FY10+
Department for the Aging [DFTA]
Suspend the Senior Center RFP--Opposed by the speaker and most Council Members and advocates for seniors.	$117 million
Elimination of social adult day care, which would close all non-medical adult day care services to fewer than 200 individuals with cognitive or physical limitations	$1.2 million in FY09 $2.4 million in FY10+
Elimination of elder abuse prevention contracts	$425,000
Human Resources Administration [HFA]
Elimination of HASA Homemaking Re-estimate	$250,000
City University of New York [CUNY]
Elimination of “Jobs to Build On” (a council initiative)	$250,000
Department of Youth and Community Development [DYCD]
Reduction of Out of School Time (OST) Slots	$3.2 million
Reduction of Work Hours in Summer Jobs for Teens program	$1.7 million