The City Council has a discretionary funding process and each individual member can fund services, programs, and infrastructure projects for their district. Expense funding is discretionary funding that supports programs and services and capital funding is discretionary funding that supports physical infrastructure projects. This upcoming fiscal year, Council Member Chi Ossé will be funding programs, services, and projects that work to reduce and mitigate gun violence in District 36. Below are guidelines on how our office will be handling budget requests for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24).

Expense Funding Requests – Funding for programs and services.

• For organizations that received funding from our office in FY23: Our office has sent out an email with a supplemental form that all previous funders must fill out in addition to the City Council Discretionary Funding Application. This form needs to be filled out by February 21st.
• For organizations that did not receive funding from our office in FY23: Please fill out this form with your budget proposal. We ask organizations to fill out the form to the best of their ability and be as detailed as possible with the form to help our office better understand the request. Please include any one pagers or PDFs about your proposal in the form, particularly any documents with data and statistics on the work done in District 36. This form needs to be filled out by February 21st. Meetings will be on a case by case basis.

Capital Funding Requests – Funding for infrastructure projects.

• For all requests, please email May Vutrapongvatana, Director of Policy and Budget, at mvutrapongvatana@council.nyc.gov with your budget proposal and a description on how your program or service will work to address the issue of gun violence in District 36. Please include any one pagers or PDFs about your proposal in the email. Meetings will be on a case by case basis.

To receive any funding from the City Council, you must fill out the City Council’s application. Any supplementary form from our office is NOT a substitute for the official Council form.

The Council’s FY2024 expense funding application is posted here and is due on February 21, 2023. 

The Council’s FY2024 capital funding application is posted here and is due March 23, 2023 (unless you are also seeking capital funding from the borough president, in which your due date is February 23, 2023)

For any questions or concerns about budget, please reach out to May Vutrapongvatana at 718-919-0740 or at mvutrapongvatana@council.nyc.gov. If there are any questions about the status of your application, please email discretionary@council.nyc.gov.