🔴 LIVE: The Committee on Children and Youth's Preliminary Budget Hearing

New York City Council, Committee on Children and Youth · March 16, 2026

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Opening remarks and committee context

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Chair opens the hearing, sets goals for the FY27 preliminary budget review and areas of focus including child care, juvenile justice, foster care, and prevention services. Chair states the committee's role in budget accountability.

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New York City Council Children and Youth Committee heard Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) and Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) testimony on the FY27 preliminary budgets. Major topics: child care vouchers and a 17,000-child wait list, foster care and state cost-shifts, juvenile detention capacity and the Horizon annex, Summer Rising baseline funding and DYCD’s large Compass afterschool RFP, and requests for more runaway/homeless youth beds and housing navigators.

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