Supplies, and work orders of other city services, such as department of Human Resources, Controllers Office services, and rent. We have six f. T. E. S with the Directors Office vacant since march of this year, and we have an open grant funded position that youre not seeing in this chart, just vacated last week that were working on filling quickly. We, like all City Departments were instructed to propose a 10 reduction. We proposed initial reductions amounting to 959,000 annually, and this was an across the board proposed reduction of almost 12 to our communitybased grant fees. Realizing the impact of these grant fees to the vulnerable populations and the populations these serve, the Mayors Office asked us to submit some lower alternative reduction scenarios. The Mayors Service accepted our approximately 7 reduction, which would come from the departments genderbased balance intervention program. Understanding that all of our grantees work serves vulnerable and underserved communities, t
We know you are only two weeks into this job, but we expect you to know everything. We are still reviewing the effects of the recent reforms in the budget caps adjustments that were included in last weeks bipartisan budget act and we look forward to your testimony. Over the past year our committee has been working to improve, strengthen and streamline health care and welfare programs under our jurisdiction. In health care we have taken action to cut needless red tape. It makes it more difficult for providers to deliver high quality care to their patients. We recently advanced targeted bipartisan reforms to improve medicare for the American People, continuing the drive to strengthen quality and care coordination. Our committee played a firsthand role in developing legislation repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. With the American Health care act that was passed by the house last may, we delivered market Oriented Solutions that would truly increase flexibility, reduce costs and re
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