my name is joe salem, and i'm the finance officer of the department. i'm here to discuss draft changes in the fiscal year 2021-22 budget that was adopted by the commission on february 1. when we presented the draft budget to this commission, we were anticipating the continuation of our annual interdepartmental services or i.d.s. work order with the p.u.c. at the current active levels. we've since learned that we'll be receiving $248,000 less than we expected from the p.u.c. this, along with the anticipated loss of $98,000 from the m.t.a. reflects a total loss of $346,000 from in fisk of year 2021-22. there are always small changes and reductions to the budget before we submit it to the mayor's office. this year, however, the change is significant enough to impact our crucial work in our ability to fund existing staff positions, so we felt it would be important to make the commission aware of the changes and impact on the department. next slide, please. as you can see from this first pie chart, climates and e.v. funding always represented a small part o

my name is joe salem, and i'm the finance officer of the department. i'm here to discuss draft changes in the fiscal year 2021-22 budget that was adopted by the commission on february 1. when we presented the draft budget to this commission, we were anticipating the continuation of our annual interdepartmental services or i.d.s. work order with the p.u.c. at the current active levels. we've since learned that we'll be receiving $248,000 less than we expected from the p.u.c. this, along with the anticipated loss of $98,000 from the m.t.a. reflects a total loss of $346,000 from in fisk of year 2021-22. there are always small changes and reductions to the budget before we submit it to the mayor's office. this year, however, the change is significant enough to impact our crucial work in our ability to fund existing staff positions, so we felt it would be important to make the commission aware of the changes and impact on the department. next slide, please. as you can see from this first pie chart, climates and e.v. funding always represented a small part o

world joe biden is again presiding over the detention of thousands of unaccompanied children joining me now is known to his daughter an internationally renowned historian in their own right salem state university professor of eva chomsky who joins me from massachusetts even thanks so much for coming on going underground to the world is obviously looking at this televised trial of george floyd taken from the headlines away from the u.s. mexican border how is structural racism do you believe linked to the detaining of children by joe biden on the border between the u.s. and mexico while it's important to look at what's going on with children on the border right now it's also really important to can text to allies it that is. i don't think that the crisis is should be defined as the fact that joe biden is detaining children on the border i think that we really need to look a lot bigger to understand what's going on and to understand the role of structural racism in it and i would say that the role of structural racism has to do with the way i think that foreign policy is a really big part of it and understanding why children are being forced to flee from central america. and how