 What's going on I'm sure all of you sort of speech so you don't have to hear a speech We'll just open it up to some question. How you doing Marsha? Education Okay, Jack will do a detail Because we out of the 70-something agencies to go line by line what the impacts are we're not gonna be able to do that in such a Short period of time because I'm a bounce in a moment. So but we're gonna go through Jack will go through that, but we were very clear to all of our agencies no cuts of services which are important no layoffs those very clear directions and We stated this not only from the time I was elected from the time I was running fiscal Responsibility is going to be the hallmark of this administration Taxpayers deserve a better use of their tax dollars. That's what we're doing It's not more with less. We don't we don't subscribe to that theory or more with less we have to do better than what we have and We believe there were real savings and we see that and I think that it is Unfair to say that every day civil servants have not been producing a quality product And they're going to continue to do so you we go into civil service for a reason to Provide a service to the people of the city and we have been doing that. We have not been Just surviving we've been thriving and I'll track a record of success and delivery of services is showing that Okay, I Think my long record of public libraries is just you know really something to be proud of from the days of being a state Senator to our president How use my capital dollars allocated to the libraries what we do what we did last year around teen centers I'm a big believer in libraries where we're looking at are the vacancies That is where we're asking and we gave our instructions on those areas of vacancies We are saying 50% that we want them to remove. That's the same for our libraries We these are tough times and I can't tell you how many times Deputy mayors have knocked on the door and say well, can we spare this agency? Can we spare that agency? We have to send a strong message that we must find More efficient ways of running our city and we could do that and we're doing that every day Yes, thank you for that minimum new initiatives they come with the price tag and we have not Put in place extremely costly initiatives. There are a whole lot of things I would like to do But just as it we're asking everyday taxpayers to properly balance is their budgets at home We have to do the same and so we have a minimum increase in new needs The new initiatives that we want to put in place like ours Some of jobs that we put in place for young people and other initiatives So minimum new initiatives and that's what you see some of the course Increased and we have to put money just even dealing with Inflation on fuel course and other course so there are areas where there are increased in spending that we have to do Michael no not at all. I cannot say enough about Speak Adrian Adams Not only is she a high schoolmate. She I consider to be a friend. She's a leader of a body of government and there's their checks and balances and She must speak on behalf of her membership and we had a good conversation here There were things she agreed on disagree on there's things that she wanted and that's fine with me. I I really believe 2022 Unfortunately, it was unfortunate that the dialogue got in the way of our success and that is not going to be 2023 for me I have partners in every parts of government and I consider Adrian to be one of those partners I may be the pilot, but she's the co-pilot and we have to land this plane and we can't land it without each other And we're going to have disagreements, but trust me. We will land this plane and we will have a budget Are you Daniel? You said the which it was Yeah, of the um, you know, we had a meeting this morning the first ebony man I had an event this morning with our corporation leaders Everyone is experiencing headcount, you know It just amazes me sometimes like you know the way it is being interpreted that only city hall is experiencing a count We had a headcount issues. We had 8% The control those office as I spoke today's at 1415 percent the city council is at 14% Everyone is experiencing headcount issue and for a number of reasons that we're experiencing that we entered a new norm norm and post pandemic And so we have to adjust to that new norm of what we are experiencing and you know, even a many of you work from home You know, so I'm pretty sure even your own establishments are downsizing in some way this is the new norm and What we must do and I tell my team all the time is we can't sit back and say What our headcount issues are we have to sit back and say how do we adjust to the noon to the new norm? That's a week. That's what we're going to do. We're going to continue to provide the services the city needs for today Are you? It's a moving target that continues to move a few months ago We talked about the agreement that came from El Paso That they were not going to be sending those large number of migrants here to the city But trust me when I tell you our numbers We are still receiving hundreds of migrants in the last a few days We receive I believe 800 We're still in this crisis. And so we're predicted is going to be about a billion dollars during this fiscal year maybe more if we Open the borders again. It's going to increase even more and It's a lot and so once we come up with a solid number is still moving is still shifting We're opening herks over and over again. So all I can say at this point. It's a lot Well, I'm not a job going to the particulars But the some of the money we get in from our subway safety plan, you know, thank God of the good relationship We have with the governor bad money is going to be some of that money is going to be reimbursed by the governor we had an issue in this city around public safety and The successful use of our manpower allowed us to do what we want to accomplish particularly in the second half of the year We started out rugged February. I think we were up 40% in many of the index crimes We're down to 20% in some of those index crimes Decrease in shootings decrease in homicides. Someone told me the other day. Well, you know decrease in homicides nothing to be happy about Really? I think it is, you know, I think it's a lot to be happy about We are showing real significant gains on the subway system of the last quarter We you know, we did that's why we did the press of the other day We're moving in right direction. I am I am not going to trade off Public safety, we have to be safe. I'm not going to trade that off We have to not only have real numerical Indicators that we're safe, but there's neither symbolism New York is must feel safe and they feel safe when they see that blue uniform We're going to recruit we have to use over time in a smart way. We're going to do that We decreased the number of officers assigned to our new year celebration We decreased numbers of officers assigned to parades. We are really monitoring how we're spending taxpayer dollars We have a civilianization plan that we're rolling out. We're seeing a very Qualitative deployment of police. I talked about this on a campaign trail. We were not deploying police correctly We're starting to deploy them better and I'm really pleased what Commissioner Sewell is is doing and we're gonna use whatever Dollar I need to keep the city safe. I'm going to do that He'll do it when he does Mm-hmm. Okay Can you ask the controller to show you the letter he wrote to the federal government asking for help for us? Can you can you ask anyone? Where are their letters that they wrote to government to entities to help New York City? Helping New York City is not saying spend more of taxpayers dollars. I Just want one letter one tweet. It may maybe I could find a tweet. You did you see what? Right, can you get them on the cell phone speaker phone and say can you send us the letter that you sent to the federal government? saying help New York City or Or send us a tweet or do an Instagram post with a sign do something do I mean we Can you believe it? We're the only ones that are saying federal government do your job, but everyone is telling us to do our job Which we're doing every day We're doing that every day. We're doing our job. So I need help and I was one of the number one things I said to all my colleagues. I need you to join me and tell in the federal government New York taxpayers don't deserve this and so if he believed I'm not doing a good enough job Then I think he should be part of this team calling for the federal government to do their job First of all having high school as a person who has participated in protests throughout my life Seeing our young children involved in civic engagement warms my heart. Just do it on Saturday and Sunday. I Would like for them to be in school But having them engage having them analyzing the budget I'm going to go to that school and I'm going to give them an analysis of our budget We want this civic engagement with our students I think it's commendable that they are getting involved in these important issues and they too I Would like for them to do a letter writing campaign to the federal government and say we need to be treated New York City fairly Around the money that we are putting into the asylum seekers and we should get our fair share tax dollars back to the city And so I would like for them to stay engaged and I'm really pleased that they were out I heard them from my room of You know talking about this issue. We know we're doing the right thing around education Jock will break that down when he do it when he does his analysis and we listen to Councilwoman Rita Joseph came up with some good ideas and we believe we've done some great things around education We'll continue to do so but hooray for those students, but just do it on the weekend Well, that's what that's part of negotiation and we're not going to do that in public, but I Understand the sacrifice of being a civil servant's because I think if you do an analysis of the mayors of the years I'm probably one of the only modern-day mayors that was a civil servant. So when we talk about health care That's my health care when we talk about pension That's my pension when we talk about the commitment of being a civil servant That's who I was and so I know what they do and we're going to be as fair and Fiscally responsible as as possible. So I agree 100% We have a great workforce and we need to treat them with the level of respect that they deserve and that's why we're being extremely mindful as The labor commissioner is sitting down and having these these contract your negotiations yes yes hearing from school officials and students we heard a Uniform concerned around the doors in the various entry ways and Chancellor Bank was able to find technology. You know, I'm a technology person He was able to find technology that allows a all the other school doors to be locked But put a camera with a buzzer system on the front door That allows the school safety agent to sit there and see the person before they let them inside the school We're looking to expand this and grow that pilot and put it in all our schools Yes That was part of he mentioned that in our meeting and I shared with him The first order of business is we must get our fiscal house in order And that is what we're going to continue to do and also shared with him that our city is hemorrhaging high-income earners we're losing a substantial amount of high-income earners to for all places, Florida and We need to be very conscious of that. You know, you know, you know, you heard my statement that 50 52% of our taxes are paid by 2% of New Yorkers and those tax dollars by those 2% of high-income earners are putting cops on our street paving our highways our schools of Museums and we just have to be extremely focused on We don't want to continue to have the reputation that we the highest tax state Between California and New York and so if there's a need there's something we need to sit down and focus on But he also knows that we don't control Income tax is controlled by this is controlled by the state and if we do any property tax We have to be thoughtful look after those Small homeowners when we think this through and we want to get this resolved of during during this fiscal year But we need to be thoughtful. We need to spend our tax dollars appropriately. New York is deserve Better than how we've been using their tax dollars Well our number of 23 billion for investment in housing is is the highest and As we say last year we are doing something with our chief housing officer that has not been done before we've Pulling in NYCHA But we need to build more we're going to need help from Albany We also self-examined ourselves and say what could we be doing better? And there was a lot of things we could do better And to encourage and incentivize housing in the city our investments are very strong We believed we need to continue to build and I think 23 billion dollars is a real indicator of that So we don't know the dollar amount as I stated I saw senator Schumer Antonio Rino so's State of the borough and first of all I thank him and we really need to thank senator Schumer and and Leader Jefferies for what they did because this deal was almost dead of any money coming here And he was able to pull this off for us. We don't know what Portion we're going to receive. They haven't shared that we were successful in Tiffany and her team they were able to Successful pushed the lawmakers there to get us eight million dollars from FEMA and Two million dollars additional from senator Schumer But we're hoping we get a lion's share of the over eight hundred million dollars But let's be clear that does not solve the problem We want to be clear on that that does not solve the problem The problem is a national problem at our border and we have to resolve that no cities in America should be going through this and My heart goes to El Paso Washington, Chicago Houston I spoke with mayor life foot who was just furious She has people sleeping in the basement of her library. She have people who have to remain on buses for hours there's no more room and We need to address this issue So to get we need these hundreds of millions of dollars of the money we spent but we have to resolve this issue 1.5 billion No, and we thank him for his input. I think he does a great job as a state controller But I lean on the person who has navigated me through these storms and he stands to the right of me Jock has done an amazing job for the city and I'm going to continue to follow his advice He has not let me wrong thus far if ever I stand up at the podium He's not standing next to me is because he's let me wrong But until then he is right to the right of me and I will continue to follow his advice. Thank you Well, I've said this before and I'm going to continue to say it. I just believe That there was a disservice last year There was a real energy that Eric Dick got nothing out of Albany and it was just so wrong The list of items that I asked for There were only two items. I did not get out of Albany based on my analysis and that was one a class size I still think that was a mistake and My belief in having the dangerousness standard. Those were the only two things I didn't get I do what For well, you know, I don't think that was we need it, but that wasn't a huge of Item the items that I came up and advocated for for they were there with me And you would not think that when you read the coverage But the reality they were and so this year I made it clear when I sat down with the leaders and members You know, they meet the members up there on what items are important around the Citibus and I said let's come together And here we're going to give you the numbers of the we believe around 1700 people are recidivist they're very violent and they just have made up their minds that they're going to continue to do violence how do we now zero in on those and Carl made a good point that I really agree with you heard me say there are many rivers that feed to see your violence and Carl Say, let's look at the Totality of our criminal justice system and come up with real plans of addressing the problems in our criminal justice system That was music to my ears. We're going to show some of our ideas. He's going to show his Senator cousins majority leaders is also in the same place. I think we're starting off on the real good footing And I think we're going to make some great inroads We're doing is how we doing this? How we doing this? It's so good Huh? Well, we we we um, we don't know Like how you report is love y'all stories, you know, we don't know First of all, I don't know exactly how much was thrown out We're going to dig into the reason why because we should not waste food We did a survey and ask Those who were part of the asylum seekers of you know, give us your thoughts around Food they said they did not want sandwiches. They wanted hot food. We tried to accommodate that and so but I you know, I guess I'm a little old-fashioned if Our city is giving people food to eat That are in a terrible state I think that there's a real Great effort for the people of this city and I'm not quite sure if there was a bag of food That was tossed out. I don't know the circumstances around that and so I would dig into it But what we're going to do we're going to provide food for people People may have a different Cultural taste for certain foods. We can't do that. We could only provide Nutrition food for people and then we're doing analysis if people are ordering too much Then they got they have to make the adjustments so we're going to look into it and determine exactly what happened there I don't know what happened there. I learned about it when I read in the papers You want to ask something? Yeah, since it was your story I always learn in life from when someone sought over the census would all do respect they're about to disrespect you Okay, but I hope your question it's a lot and my budget director is going to Give you some rough estimates, but the danger of giving rough estimates then it's reported that these are the factual amounts It's a moving target. It's moving every day At this time the only answer I can give you that it is a lot And you know when we could come up with the right dollar amount because the target has stopped moving so much Then we'll do that until then I can't That's a great question First of all our passive recruitment system is antiquated We sit around and for the most part have people fill out Take the exams or try to fill out we have to change that mindset And we're going to be doing a series of things like we're going to Partner with DC 37 to put in place hiring halls We're going to go and recruit at our colleges and recruit at our high schools upon graduation We're going to have a universal place where people can go who's looking for a job and using Everything from QR codes To have an essentialized place because when I walk the streets and I ask people on the subway Do you know where the sense of one of they're looking for a job? I'm finding that people don't know the start in place and so what I have told the deputy mayor deputy mayor Maria Torres-Springer is that we must Educate the public with jobs are available and start selling our product of civil servant jobs that are available. These are good jobs We're good benefits good retirements good pay and we're going to start selling our product We're going to be more aggressive and not as passive as we have been historically Waiting for people to come to us. We're going out to them and let them know what jobs are available In the city, but again, let's not lose focus There is a national hiring crisis Everywhere I go Engineers attorneys nurses. There's a crisis of hiring that we must now adjust to Okay George Santos I think that he's now elected to Congress and There's a congressional body that would determine what his future is and I respect that body in their decision And then if he stays through the term He has to go back in front of his voters and they will determine if he's going to stay in office or not So at this stage is up to his colleagues to decide what's going to happen And the outcome of any investigation that outsize entities will do they would decide I don't think my opinion matters here He was voted into office and their procedures and removing someone from office and there's procedures if his action Crossed over to into some wrongful doing we have, you know, investigatory bodies that would determine that Yes, yes, definitely He's a he's the congressperson that represent parts of the city and even in the state There are things we need In the state and also there are things we're going to need we're going to need votes on the federal level So until is determined that he no longer should serve right now his name is congressmen and We are going to we're not leaving any stone unturned on who we should be sent down with To make sure New Yorkers get the resources that they need. Thank you