On April 24^th, 2024, Mayor Adams released a $111.6 billion Executive Budget for City Fiscal Year 2025.

Significantly, the Executive Budget restores over $500 million for Education programs and services currently supported by expiring federal stimulus funding, including 3-K, preschool special education, Community Schools, homeless shelter coordinators, school social workers and psychologists, and Learning to Work programs. Some of these initiatives are being restored through city funds, while others are receiving state investments. These restorations are a critical step towards preserving the services and supports students urgently needed even prior to the pandemic.

However, these restorations to the DOE still fall short of the need, leaving out important education programs like the Mental Health Continuum and restorative justice practices. Many of these programs are also funded for only one year, leaving their futures uncertain. Moreover, programs like Community Schools and preschool special education still face cuts despite partial restorations. Finally, these restorations fail to fully fund 3-K and Pre-K, which are still facing $170 million in city budget cuts. These cuts threaten the wellbeing of families across the city and directly undermine the Mayor’s claim that every child who wants an ECE seat will have access to one.

Additionally, the Executive Budget maintains many of the devastating cuts implemented in the November 2023 Budget Modification, including cuts to libraries, $19.6 million from the Summer Rising program, and $6.9 million from the COMPASS afterschool program. The cuts in COMPASS funding will result in an estimated loss of over 3,000 seats for youth, and providers are reporting their programs are being cut even though they have waitlists to access them.

CCC urges City leaders to build on recent progress to fully restore funding to critical programs including ECE and youth services, as well as make critically needed investments including in anti-hunger and anti-poverty programs; behavioral health supports in schools and communities; supports for asylum seekers; and services for families in shelter or those at risk of homelessness.

Summary of Actions Taken in the New York FY2024 November Budget Modification and FY2025 Preliminary Budget

The FY24 November Budget Modification Reduces Funding for the Following Initiatives in FY25:

These reductions have not been reversed in the Executive Budget documents

• $120 million in FY25 and outyears for ECE Efficiencies (DOE)
• $60 million in FY25 and outyears for School Food Savings (DOE)
• $1.5 million in FY25 and outyears for the New York Research Library (NYPL)
• $8 million in FY25 and outyears for the New York Public Library (NYPL)
• $6 million in FY25 and outyears for the Brooklyn Public Library (BKPL)
• $6.3 million in FY25 and outyears for the Queens Public Library (QPL)
• $1 million in FY25 and outyears for the Arches Program (Probation)
• $2.6 million in FY25 and outyears for Next Step program efficiencies (Probation)
• $310,00 in FY25 and outyears for Close to Home Monitoring (ACS)
• $6.7 million in FY25 and outyears for Close to Home Re-Estimate (ACS)
• $5.1 million in FY25, and $5.4 million in outyears for Committee on Special Education/Special Education Re-estimate (ACS)
• $400,000 in FY25 and outyears for Early Learn (ACS)
• $555,000 in FY25 and outyears for Family Service Unit Reorganization (ACS)
• $1.6 million in FY25 and outyears for Preventive Re-estimate (ACS)
• $2 million in FY25 and outyears for RTA Programming & IT (ACS)
• $6.7 million in FY25 and $8.9 million in outyears for Alternatives to Incarceration Re-Estimate (OCJ)
• $8 million in FY25 and $5 million in outyears for Re-Entry Services Re-Estimate (OCJ)
• $13 million in FY25 and $5.4 million in outyears for Supervised Release Re-Estimate (OCJ)
• $19.6 million in FY25 and outyears for Summer Rising (DYCD)
• $6.9. million in FY25 and outyears for COMPASS Afterschool (DYCD)
• $5.4 million in FY 25 and outyears for Office of Neighborhood Safety (DYCD)
• $1 million in FY25 and outyears for Unallocated Funding, including Advance and Earn Expansion, Summer Youth Employment Program Metrocards, Precision Employment Initiative, and Readi Initiative (DYCD)

The Preliminary Budget for FY 2025 Reduces Funding for the Following Initiatives:

These reductions have not been reversed in the Executive Budget documents

• $50 million in FY25 and outyears for Early Childhood Efficiencies (DOE)
• $51.7 million in FY25 and $60.8 million in outyears for ECE Other than Personnel Services (OTPS) efficiencies (DOE)
• $9.5 million in FY25 and outyears for Child Care Claiming (ACS)
• $555,000 in FY25 and outyears for the Family Service Unit (ACS)
• $760,000 in FY25, $1.52 million in FY26, $2.28 million in FY27, and $3.04 million in FY28 for Preventive Re-Estimate (ACS)
• $16.5 million in FY25 and $20.0 million in outyears for Rental Assistance Program Upgrades (DSS)
• $600,000 in FY25 for the Arches Re-Estimate, a mentorship program for young people (DOP)
• $1.3 million in FY25 and outyears to eliminate the Behavioral Health Unit at the Department of Probation (DOP)
• $700,000 in FY25 and outyears for cancellation of the Impact Program, a program for adolescents who are primarily sentenced to probation through Adult Criminal Court (DOP)
• $3 million in FY26 and outyears for Re-Entry Services (OCJ)

Summary of Actions Taken in the New York FY2025 Executive Budget

The Executive Budget for FY 2025 Reduces City Funding for the Following Initiatives:

• $4.2 million in FY25 for a Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) DOE Slot Adjustment
• $32.6 million in FY25 for Community Food Connections

The Executive Budget for FY 2025 Adds or Restores the following initiatives using City Funding:

Department of Education

• $25 million in FY25 for Additional Special Education Pre-K Classes
• $3.5 million in FY25 for ECE Outreach
• $92 million in FY25 to maintain 3K funding
• $10 million in FY25 to maintain Affinity Organization Contracts Funding
• $41 million in FY25 to maintain arts funding
• $31 million in FY25 to maintain Learning to Work
• $9 million in FY25 to maintain New Visions Data Platform Funding
• $15 million in FY25 to maintain Project Pivot Funding
• $50 million in FY24 for Pupil Transportation
• $154 million in FY25 for school cleaning

Department of Social Services

• $4.6 million for NYC Benefits Access Initiative
• $614.85 million in FY25 and $540.33 million in outyears for CityFHEPs Rental Assistance

Department of Homeless Services

• $500,000 in FY26 and FY27 for Asylum Seeker Outyear Needs
• $553,352 in FY25 for Asylum Seekers Funding Realignment
• $321438 in FY24 for Asylum Seekers State Funding Adjustment

Office of Criminal Justice

• $4.63 million in FY25 for Alternatives to Incarceration Adjustment
• $5.41 million in FY25 for Re-Entry Services Adjustment

Department of Youth and Community Development

• $8.6 million baselined for Crisis Management System Expansion to support additional Cure Violence coverage areas and additional mental health services in gun violence safety precincts
• $16.9 million in FY25, $31.2 million in FY26, $43.4 million in FY27 and $55.3 million in FY28 for Job Connections Program, which connects young New Yorkers at risk of gun violence with career readiness and green job placement programs
• $2.5 million baselined for Neighborhood Safety Alliance, which fosters collaboration between communities, actors, law enforcement agencies, and city services to reduce gun violence in six additional precincts

Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

• $6 million in FY25, FY26, and FY27 to wipe out medical debt for low-income and debt-burdened New Yorkers

Department of Environmental Protection

• $292,000 in FY25 and $284,000 in outyears for Asbestos Control Program

The Executive Budget for FY 2025 Adds or Restores the Following Initiatives using State funding:

• $53 million baselined to replace expiring federal stimulus funds to provide students with opportunities for career-connected learning and college counseling.
• $40 million baselined to replace expiring federal stimulus funds to support the Special Education Pre-K enhancement contract.
• $74 million baselined to replace expiring mental health staff funding for social workers, school psychologists and psychologists in training.
• $17 million baselined to replace expiring federal stimulus funds to support literacy and dyslexia programming.
• $56 million baselined to replace PEG cuts to Community Schools and expiring federal stimulus funding.
• $10 million baselined to replace expiring federal stimulus funds to support bilingual programs.
• $27 million baselined to replace expiring federal stimulus funds to support the Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL).
• $9 million baselined to replace expiring federal stimulus funds to support Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE) teams coordinating evaluations and services for children ages 3 to 5.
• $7 million baselined to replace expiring federal stimulus funds to support Pre-K itinerant teams who provide mandated related services at Early Childhood programs.
• $17 million baselined to replace expiring federal stimulus funds to pay for 100 coordinators for students in temporary housing.
• $53 million baselined to replace expiring federal stimulus funds for Pathways, which provides students with opportunities for career-connected learning and college counseling.
• $6 million baselined to replace expiring federal stimulus funds to support translation and interpretation services

The Executive Budget for FY25 Fails to Fund Key Initiatives that Were Funded in the FY24 Adopted Budget

Investments that the City Administration funded in the FY24 Adopted Budget for one year only and are not funded in the FY25 Preliminary or Executive Budget.

• $5.0 million for the Mental Health Continuum (H+H, DOH, DOE)
• $12 million for Restorative Justice Programs funded through the expiring Federal Stimulus dollars (DOE)
• $3.3 million for Student Success Centers funded through the expiring Federal Stimulus dollars (DOE)
• $4 million for Immigrant Family Engagement in schools (DOE)
• $14 million for Community Schools (DOE)
• $16 million for Promise NYC, which provides child care services to undocumented children and families (anticipated need for the program is $25 million) (ACS)
• $5.2 million for Groceries to Go (DOHMH)
• $5.5 million for SYEP Metro cards (represents a $5.5 million reduction over FY23) (DYCD)
• $1.56 million for Youth Homelessness to provide Housing Navigator positions to assist and connect homeless youth with safe housing (represents a $1.4 million reduction over FY23) (DYCD)

The Preliminary Budget for FY 2024 Does Not Fund City Council’s FY 2024 Initiatives

These are restorations and investments that were funded by the City Council in FY24 only.

Community Development

• 06 million for Asian-American Pacific Islander Community Support (an increase in $60,000 from FY23)
• $3.7 million for Communities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund
• $4.59 million for Digital Inclusion and Literacy Initiative
• $4.405 million for LGBT Community Services (a reduction of $819,375 from FY23)
• $3.225 million for Trans Equity Programs (a reduction of $50,000 from FY23)

 Community Safety and Victim Services

• $5.1 million for Community Safety and Victim Services Initiative

Criminal Justice Services/Juvenile Justice

• $14.487 million for Alternatives to Incarceration programs
• $350,000 for Discharge Planning (an increase of 100,000 from FY23)
• $2.525 million for Diversion Programs
• $4.61 million for the Initiative to Combat Sexual Assault (a reduction of $50,000 from FY23)
• $2.638 million for Innovative Criminal Justice Programs
• $1.02 million for Support for Victims of Human Trafficking (a reduction of $177,935 from FY23)
• $3.476 million for Support for Persons Involved in the Sex Trade (a reduction of $958,000 in FY23)

 Domestic Violence

• $12.01 million for Domestic Violence and Empowerment (DoVE) Initiative (an increase of $510,000 from FY23)
• $2.45 million for Supportive Alternatives to Violent Encounters (SAVE), which includes $600,000 for Project CONNECT at ACS.

Early Childhood Education

• $5.45 million for the City’s First Readers Initiative
• $600,000 for CUNY Child Care Expansion

Education

• $1.74 million for College and Career Readiness
• $3.75 million for Community Schools.
• $7.14 million for Educational Programs for Students, which includes programs such as Chess in the Schools, and the Middle School Quality Initiative (distributed between DOE and DYCD)
• $5 million for the Education Equity Action Plan to support the creation of a K-12 Black Studies curriculum ($5 million decrease from FY23)
• $500,000 for the Jill Chaifetz Helpline operated by Advocates for Children.
• $2.8 million for LGBTQ Inclusive Curriculum.
• $925,000 million for Physical Education and Fitness ($250,000 decrease from FY23)
• $2 million for Social and Emotional Supports for Students, including $777,000 for the Child Mind Institute (100,000 increase from FY23)
• $4.4 million for Support for Educators, which funds professional development, training, and mentorship for teachers.
• $4 million for Support for Arts Instruction ($1 million increase from FY23)
• $7.4 million for Cultural Immigrant Initiative (distributed among DCLA, DYCD, CUNY, DOE)
• $4.6 million for Digital Inclusion and Literacy Initiative (distributed among DYCD, DCLA, DFTA, DOE, and QBPL)
• $714,500 for Work-Based Learning Internships

 Environmental Initiatives

• $5.1 million for A Greener NYC
• $14.3 million for NYC Cleanup

 Economic Security

• $2.8 million for the Anti-Poverty Initiative

 Food Initiatives

• $7.26 million in FY24 for food pantries ($370,203 reduction over FY23)
• $2.134 million for Access to Healthy Food and Nutritional Education, which funds farmers markets, urban farms, community gardens, and programs to expand the use of SNAP benefits
• $1.5 million for the Food Access and Benefits Initiative (HRA)

 Health Services

• $3.620 million for Access Health NYC ($78,969 reduction over FY23)
• $664,719 for Child Health and Wellness, which includes programs such as obesity prevention, asthma programs and oral health services
• $3.728 million for the Maternal and Child Health Services initiative
• $953,787 for the Managed Care Consumer Assistance Program ($60,327 reduction over FY23)
• $554,423 for Reproductive and Sexual Health Services

 Homeless and Housing Services

• $1.35 million for Children and Families in the NYC Homeless System
• $820,000 for the Citywide Homeless Prevention Fund
• $3.65 million for Community Housing Preservation Strategies
• $1.5 million for the Community Land Trust
• $450,000 for Financial Empowerment for NYC’s Renters
• $4.15 million for the Foreclosure Prevention Program ($100,00 reduction over FY23)
• $1.8 million for the Home Loan Program ($200,000 reduction over FY23)
• $650,000 for Housing Court Answers
• $300,000 for the Housing Information Project
• $3.75 million for Stabilizing NYC, a citywide coalition to prevent the loss of affordable housing ($50,000 reduction over FY23)

Immigrant Services

• $16.6 million for the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project ($750,000 reduction from FY23)
• $3.982 million for the Unaccompanied Minors and Families Initiative
• $2.4 million for Immigrant Health Initiative
• $2.6 million for Immigrant Opportunities Initiative
• $700,000 for Key to the City ($700,000 increase over FY23)

 Legal Services

• $3.0 million for Family Advocacy and Guardianship Support
• $485,000 for Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT)
• $5.8 million for Legal Services for Low-income New Yorkers, which includes citywide legal services and the SSI advocacy project
• $3.455 million for Legal Services for the Working Poor ($25,000 increase over FY23)

 Mental Health Services

• $3.26 million for the Autism Awareness Initiative ($55,000 reduction from FY23)
• $1.56 million for the Children Under 5 Initiative, which funds community-based mental health services for children under 5 ($231,000 reduction from FY23) $3.425 million for the Court-Involved Youth Mental Health Initiative
• $2.23 million for Developmental, Psychological and Behavioral Health Services ($30,000 reduction from FY23)
• $1.2 million for the LGBTQ Youth All-Borough Mental Health Initiative
• $3.66 million for Mental Health Services for Vulnerable Populations, which included the Samaritans Suicide Prevention hotline ($270,000 reduction from FY23)
• $3.08 million for Opioid Prevention and Treatment ($425,000 reduction from FY23)

 Parks and Recreation

• $5.4 million for Parks Equity Initiative ($255,000 increase above FY23)

Public Safety

• $720,000 for Arts as a Catalyst for Change
• $3.77 million for the Crisis Management System (distributed among DOE, DOP, DYCD, and HHC) (a reduction of $155,000 from FY23)
• $125,000 for Cure Hate
• $1.225 million for the Hate Crimes Prevention Initiative (an increase of $225,000 from FY23)

Young Women’s Initiative

• $973,126 for a Dedicated Contraceptive Fund
• $250,000 for HRA Teen RAPP
• $530,000 for an Initiative for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence.
• $350,000 for the Prevent Sexual Assault (PSA) Initiative for Young Adults.
• $174,000 for Step in and Stop it Initiative to Address Bystander Intervention.
• $714,500 for Work-Based Learning Internships.
• $1.096 million for Wrap-Around Supports for Transitional-Aged Foster Youth (a reduction of $133,212 from FY23)
• $1.74 million for Young Women’s Leadership Development (a reduction of $65,000 from FY23)

Youth Services

• $8.2 million for the Afterschool Enrichment Initiative (a reduction of $65,000 from FY23)
• $1.2 million for Big Brothers and Big Sister of New York City.
• $500,000 for Civic Education in New York City Schools
• $1.87 million for COMPASS elementary after-school programs.
• $1.472 million for Sports Training and Role Models for Success Initiative (STARS).
• $1.75 million for Youth Build Project Initiative (a reduction of $350,000 from FY23)
• $17.34 million for Cultural After-School Adventure (CASA).
• $1 million for Citywide Young Adult Entrepreneurship Program Initiative.

Community Development

• $5.06 million for Asian-American Pacific Islander Community Support ($60,000 increase above FY23)

Community stabilization

• $3.7 million for Communities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund