It's the Brian Laird Show and WNYce. Good morning again everyone. I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the

WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom filling in for Brian today. Now the Climate Story of the Week,

which happens every Tuesday on the Brian Laird show.

Today, Theodore Moore, Executive Director of Aline, which stands for Alliance for a Greater New York,

is here to talk about the new city budget and what it means for the city's climate goals for school buildings.

Theo, welcome to WNYC.

Hello, thanks for having me.

I spoke yesterday with Katie Hoonin who reports on City Hall for the new site

the city about the new budget agreed to by Mayor Adams and the City Council.

It restored a lot of cuts that the mayor had made but you are specifically looking at how much was devoted to helping city school buildings meet emissions targets.

What happened with that?

So, and obviously it takes an extreme long time to comb through the budget.

I feel like it's intentionally, you know, confusing and opaque, but it looks like as far as the Green Healthy Schools

campaign which we have been advocating for there was nothing put in there and

and we see it as a huge, you know, failure of this administration to really meet the moment. So what we've been asking for is for the electrification, deep upgrades, and renewal of a lot of our

schools across the city. So we've been asking for the upgrade of 500 of our

school buildings by 2030, prioritizing schools

and environmental justice communities.

And basically what we thought is that we can do a down payment on that of

six hundred million dollars which seems like a lot of money but we know that the

budget itself was a hundred and twelve billion dollars and while we think you know in the

budget there there was obviously the the restoration of a lot of a lot of cuts. We think there was additional funding for

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