This PDF file contains New York City Council's Response to the Fiscal 2024 Preliminary Budget and Fiscal 2023 Preliminary Mayor's Management Report (PMMR) as required by the New York City Charter section 247 (b) and 12 (e).
The City of New York is at a pivotal fiscal moment. Tax revenues for the current fiscal year are coming in far above projections, yielding a substantial surplus; however, neither the Mayor’s Office nor the Comptroller’s Office expect this trend to continue.
The Preliminary Budget closes the $2.88 billion budget gap projected in November, on the strength of an expected $2.77 billion surplus in FY 2022, derived primarily from $1.60 billion in additional tax revenues and savings of $866 million from the Program to Eliminate the Gap (PEG).
New York City’s current property tax system is notoriously opaque, unfair, and regressive. For the past four decades, rather than dealing with its structural flaws, New York State has layered on a patchwork of exemptions and abatements to lower tax rates for various owners.
Advancing the vision of a smaller, safer and fairer jail system remains one of the City’s most pressing challenges and will necessitate collective action on the part of all criminal legal system stakeholders.
Fiscal Year 2023 begins in a period of significant economic uncertainty. There are meaningful signs of continued recovery from the pandemic, with jobs at 96% of pre-pandemic levels, tourism and Broadway rebounding, record numbers of new business applications, and tax revenues coming in...
A quarterly cash report for New York City. At the close of FY 2022 (on June 30, 2022), the City recorded the end-of-year cash balance of $8.159 billion, compared to $8.469 billion a year ago. Daily cash balances during FY22 averaged $7.524 billion, $831 million below the prior year’s number.