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## Email template
To: action@comptroller.nyc.gov
Subject: NYC Expense Budget Reform

Dear Scott Stringer,
My name is [Name] and I am a resident of [Borough]. Last April, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio proposed major budget cuts for the fiscal year 2021, especially to education and youth programs, while refusing to slash the NYPD budget by any significant margin. I urge you to consider pressuring the office of the mayor towards an ethical and equal reallocation of the NYC Expense Budget, away from NYPD, and towards social services and education programs, effective at the beginning of FY 21, July 1st.

It’s time to defund the NYPD’s harmful expansion into homeless services, schools, youth services, mental health, and other social services where police don’t belong. It’s time to protect investments in human services, the social safety net, racial and economic justice, and the vision that all New Yorkers deserve to thrive. Historically, the city government has spent far more on police than on public health, homeless services, youth services, and other vital agencies. That disturbing disparity has continued under Mayor de Blasio’s tenure.

I am writing to ask for an emergency council meeting among city officials regarding this matter. Governor Cuomo has doubled NYPD presence effective tonight. I am asking that city officials lobby the same amount of attention and effort towards finding sustainable, longterm change.

Thank you,
[Name]
June 2, 2020
	To: action@comptroller.nyc.gov
	Subject: NYC Expense Budget Reform

	Dear Scott Stringer,
	My name is [Name] and I am a resident of [Borough]. Last April, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio proposed major budget cuts for the fiscal year 2021, especially to education and youth programs, while refusing to slash the NYPD budget by any significant margin. I urge you to consider pressuring the office of the mayor towards an ethical and equal reallocation of the NYC Expense Budget, away from NYPD, and towards social services and education programs, effective at the beginning of FY 21, July 1st.

	It’s time to defund the NYPD’s harmful expansion into homeless services, schools, youth services, mental health, and other social services where police don’t belong. It’s time to protect investments in human services, the social safety net, racial and economic justice, and the vision that all New Yorkers deserve to thrive. Historically, the city government has spent far more on police than on public health, homeless services, youth services, and other vital agencies. That disturbing disparity has continued under Mayor de Blasio’s tenure.

	I am writing to ask for an emergency council meeting among city officials regarding this matter. Governor Cuomo has doubled NYPD presence effective tonight. I am asking that city officials lobby the same amount of attention and effort towards finding sustainable, longterm change.

	Thank you,
	[Name]
	June 2, 2020