d. Deployment of Additional State Personnel The City requests that the State deploy additional State personnel to City-run emergency sites housing New Arrivals in the City and upstate, including, but not limited to, more National Guard (“Guard”) soldiers. Moreover, the City requests that the State allow it full flexibility in deploying Guard soldiers by loosening restrictions on the minimum number of soldiers who may be deployed to a specific site at one time (i.e., some sites only require the presence of two Guard soldiers per shift). e. Supplementary State Reimbursement of New Arrival-Related Expenditures In City Fiscal Year 2023 alone, the City spent $1.45 billion to respond to the influx of New Arrivals. Based on updated trends, the City is now forecast to spend $10.8 billion over the next two fiscal years. To date, however, the City has been awarded, but has yet to receive, $143.3 million from the federal government. Earlier this year, the State committed to reimburse the City for 29% of all expenses incurred in connection with the influx of New Arrivals, however, the State capped the maximum reimbursement at $1 billion. This award addresses a small fraction of the City’s costs, and was based on the faulty assumption that the federal government would pay one-third of related costs, with the City and State paying the remainder. Given the absence of significant federal funding, the City considers it appropriate for the City to pay one-third (33%) of all costs to house, feed, provide medical care, legal services and all other supports to New Arrivals. This percentage corresponds to the City’s average share of the costs to shelter other populations. It also accounts for the relative overall size of the City’s budget, which is about half the size of the State’s and the City’s limited ability to raise additional revenues. While the City maintains that the federal government should absorb at least onethird of the expenses incurred in connection with the New Arrivals, in the absence of meaningful federal funding, the City contends that the State should cover the remaining two-thirds (67%) of such costs, taking whatever further action it deems appropriate in seeking contribution or reimbursement from the federal government for its share of that burden. State funding should include reimbursement of past expenses to date at this rate and should not be offset by reductions in State funding for unrelated City expenditures. f. Use of State-Owned Facilities & Sites The City further requests that, in addition to establishing State-administered accommodations for New Arrivals (see Section I.c., supra), the State make available to the City currently or potentially available State sites to house New Arrivals including, but not limited to: – 3