Queens Borough President Helen Marshall will join her colleagues Thursday, May 14th, at the Borough Presidents’ Agency Hearings on the Executive Budget proposed for Fiscal Year 2010, which begins July 1st.

Thursday’s hearing will be held in Manhattan at 22 Reade Street in the Spector Hall Hearing Room, beginning at 9:30 a.m.

Earlier this month, Mayor Michael Bloomberg released a $59.4 billion budget that included a drop in spending from Fiscal Year 2009 and an increase in the city’s sales tax of half a percentage point. It also called for shaving approximately $3.4 billion in spending from agencies.

Marshall said Wednesday that one of the things that she will ask Department for the Aging (DFTA) Commissioner Lilliam Barrios-Paoli on Thursday is what the future will be for six senior citizen centers and four adult day care programs if $2.9 million of her discretionary dollars are lost. “We here in Queens have the largest allocation of discretionary funding dollars for seniors because we invested more of them in core senior services than any other borough,” said Marshall. “This funding goes to the very heart of our senior citizen service delivery system.” Marshall said that she will also ask the DFTA Commissioner for an update on the current status of the new case management system and meals-on-wheels providers.


The schedule for Thursday is as follows:



· 9:30 A.M. – Department for the Aging

· 10:30 a.m. –Department of Buildings

· 11:30 a.m. – Police Department

· 1 p.m. – Department of Cultural Affairs

· 2 p.m. – Administration for Children’s Services

· 3:30 p.m. – Department of Education



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