This quarterly cash report covers October-December 2007, second quarter of fiscal year 2008. Included in this report are cash balances in revenue and expenditures for the quarter. Also included are information and comparative analyses between spendings in this quarter and in previous fiscal periods.
This report includes descriptions and data on the flow of cash in New York City for the April to June quarter of fiscal year 2006. Included are the City's revenues, expenditures, savings, and spending regarding the cash that it uses.
In accordance with the responsibilities of the Comptroller contained in Chapter 5, section 93 of the NYC Charter, the office has audited the conditions under which animals are sheltered by Animal Care and Control
of YC and the level and success of AC&C's efforts to promote the adoptions of animals from its shelters.
The City of New York can ensure that NYC remains a place that people want to build families, start businesses, and create new ideas by investing in high quality public education from pre-K to university, universal child care, robust public transit, and affordable housing
This report details the fiscal impacts of the legalization of marijuana on New York City. It was found that the City will benefit from the legalization of marijuana if the production and sale of it was regulated and taxed.
This study provides a statistical snapshot of the current state of affordable housing in New York City. The main study data were drawn from the 2011 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey and the 2010 U.S. Census.
An audit report was filed on May 3, 2012 on the Department of Housing Preservation and Development's (HPD's) performance indicators as reported in the mayor's management report. It was determined that HPD's controls were adequate to ensure that its performance indicators are sufficiently accurate and reliable. However, there were minor control weaknesses with HPD's programs that did not guarantee the accuracy and reliability of its information. In addition, there were some weaknesses with information distribution and integrity. Recommendations were made to rectify these issues.
An audit report was filed on May 29, 2009 on the financial and operating practices of the Bronx County Public Administrator's Office. The audit determined whether the Office of the Bronx County Public Administrator (Bronx PA) complied with all applicable federal, State, and city laws, rules, and regulations regarding these practices. It was determined that the Bronx PA did not adequately comply with all applicable rules and guidelines. Many inconsistencies and inadequacies of controls were identified, creating an increased risk that decedents' estates are not being properly monitored and that funds are not being adequately safeguarded and distributed. Recommendations were made to rectify these issues.
The Report on the Status of Existing Capital Projects sets forth the amount of all obligations authorized for each pending capital project and the liabilities incurred for each project, by capital budget line.
This report is divided into two sections. The first section covers audits, special reports and analysis of City agencies and public authorities with identified fiscal outcomes. The second section covers audits and special reports that focused on operational impact.
The Comptroller’s Audit Bureau issued 56 audits, investigations and special reports in Fiscal Year 2021. Reviews of welfare-fund payments were also performed.
Using administrative data from New York City property tax filings, this report provides a comprehensive measure of the vacant retail square footage, and the retail vacancy rate, for every neighborhood in New York City from 2007 to 2017 as well as average retail rent per occupied retail square foot.
The ideal emergency procurement system exists alongside robust risk assessment and planning mechanisms, so that the City does not have to rely on emergency contracts if its needs can be met by other means.
New Yorkers rely on the City to act as quickly as possible to avoid or mitigate an unforeseen danger to life, safety, property, or a necessary service.
This report aims to analyze the length of time it took to register a City contract in Fiscal Year 2021 and 2020, with an emphasis on those contracts registered after the start date of the contract has passed.
The findings of the review into the performance of New York City Health +
Hospitals (H+H) to the COVID-19 pandemic conducted by the Office of the Comptroller.
The New York City Department of Education (DOE) provides early childcare and education services to children, from birth to five years old, who live within the City. These early childhood services may be provided by DOE or other alternatives, such as contracted Community Based Organizations (CBO).
My office has conducted a review of the New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS) to identify and assess key aspects of its homeless programs and services, including the populations served, the programs’ intended outcomes, and the extent to which DHS is achieving those outcomes.
Examining recent trends in subway and bus ridership sheds light on the status of recovery and informs improvements needed to match shifting travel patterns.
Over the past decade, Citi Bike has become a vital part of New York City’s transportation landscape. As the nation’s largest bikeshare system, Citi Bike enables millions of trips each month and has a network of over 1,800 stations and 26,000 bikes
This report aims to analyze the length of time it took to register a City contract in Fiscal Year 2017, and in particular, to take a closer look at the prevalence of contracts being registered after the start date of the contract has passed.
A second follow-up report was held to see whether the Administration for Children's Services had implemented the 14 recommendations in a previous audit. Each recommendation and its status are listed in full detail.
A second follow-up report was held to see whether the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications had implemented the 12 recommendations made in a previous audit. The status and description of each recommendation is included.
This report provides information about art programs. This report advocates for the increase of arts programs because it will provide a better future for the students. This report also has the history of arts education in public schools and how budget cuts have affected the quality of this education.
This report presents a review of current data related to school safety in New York City, and from that data draws a series of holistic recommendations on how to make City schools healthier and more secure.
Addressing climate change and building a more resilient city is not just a moral imperative, it is an economic necessity. This report by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer highlights the urgent need to prepare our shorefront communities against the oncoming threat of rising seas.
This second follow-up audit report on Department of Education Internal Controls Over Its Data Center determined whether the Department of Education implemented the 12 recommendations made in an earlier Audit,
(Audit 7F01-113).
This Second Follow-up Audit Report on the Data Processing Controls and Procedures of the Department of Homeless Services determines whether the New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS) implemented the 12 recommendations made in the previous follow-up audit of data processing controls. This audit also assessed DHS compliance with the comptroller's internal control and accountability, Guidelines for the Management, Protection and Control of Agency Information and Information Processing Systems (Directive 18).
The Systems’ proxy voting and shareholder program is core to addressing both systemic and idiosyncratic risks across our portfolio to advance long-term, sustainable returns. This report details the program for FY 2022 and its accomplishments.
This Report, which is prepared by the Comptroller’s Office and reviewed by the Proxy Committee of each system, serves as the annual Proxy Committee Postseason Report (“Postseason Report”) to each retirement system’s Board of Trustees.
The Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment program of the New York City Comptroller’s Office develops and implements the proxy voting and shareowner initiative programs of the five systems, including engagement with management and directors at portfolio companies.
The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act marks one of the largest infusions of federal funding into the nation’s infrastructure of the last century. This legislation will invest $550 billion of new federal funding in transportation, clean energy, water quality, and broadband Infrastructure
For the 10-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, the Office of the New York City Comptroller and Urban Ocean Lab partnered on an assessment of community-led climate resilience initiatives that developed in the wake of the storm.
The objective of this review was to determine whether the Department of Citywide Administrative Services’ (DCAS) COVID-19 emergency procurements during Fiscal Year 2020 were necessary and related to COVID-19, adequately documented, consistent with applicable procurement policies and procedures, and
This Spotlight takes a deep dive into the care economy in New York City. We examine who care workers are: overwhelmingly women, and on average significantly older, less white, and more likely to be immigrants than non-care workers.
The City of New York’s budget process is an annual rite of projections, proposals, debate, and ultimately adoption of plans for how much money will be collected by the City over a fiscal year and how that money will be spent.
The minimum wage for New York City more than doubled between 2013 and 2020, as a result of State legislation, but its purchasing power has been eroded by the high rate of inflation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Two different legislative proposals in Albany aim to address the issue.
The Office of the New York City Comptroller serves as investment advisor, custodian and trustee for the five New York City public pension funds (collectively referred to as the New York City Retirement Systems, or NYCRS).
Among the greatest challenges facing New York City’s economy is the availability and affordability
of housing. Economic growth and stability in NYC depend upon the ability for workers and others
wishing to move into or within the city to find housing they can afford.
The focus on the city’s housing supply challenge. One of the primary drivers of high rents is an excess of demand over supply—or, put more simply, a supply shortage.
NYC's economy, though quite complex and diverse, has been driven in large part by the securities industry (more colloquially, Wall Street) for the past half century. As a result, the city’s economic fortunes have been highly dependent on the ups and downs of the financial industry and markets
This Spotlight examines how the City’s actual General Fund revenues and expenditures compare to the projections in the budgets adopted in June of the previous year, and how this performance evolved over the past decade
The DOE budget provides funding for a vast array of services to children in preschool to 12th grade that include classroom instruction, special education, charter schools, bilingual instruction, as well as a multitude of education support services.
At this time last year, many schools across NYC were facing budget cuts, and families were returning to schools with increased class sizes or to see favorite programs cut. Our May Spotlight described what led to the 2022-2023 funding cuts and what transpired afterwards to partially restore them.
This report, by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer, outlines challenges and makes recommendations for playgrounds that could better serve the children and families of NYC in all boroughs.
New York City is required to adopt a balanced budget at the beginning of each fiscal year. In addition, the City is required to present a financial plan for the subsequent
three fiscal years. It is commonplace for the outyears of the Financial Plan to be out of balance until such point at which the City Charter mandates that they be brought into
balance.
The Mayor submitted a modification to the Fiscal Year 2009 Budget and Four-Year Financial Plan, which laid out a plan for the compensation for the declining revenues in Fiscal Year 2009. This document contains many graphs and tables depicting the City's economy and the Financial Plan estimates.
The table represents the NYC Comptroller's Office statement of debt service, in accordance with Section 242 of the City Charter, which requires that the Comptroller submit a certified statement of debt service and a schedule of appropriations for the ensuing fiscal year for debt service.
Communication from the Comptroller - Submitting Statement of Debt Service as of January 12, 2023, containing a schedule of the appropriations required during the ensuing fiscal year for debt service, pursuant to Section 242 of the New York City Charter.
The Comptroller's proposals to achieve that transformation in a way that best serves the 1.1 million public school children of New York City, based on the latest but still evolving information in the age of COVID-19.
An audit report was filed on March 1, 2013 on the Department of Education's (DOE) efforts to address student-to-student harassment, intimidation, and/or bullying in compliance with chancellor's regulation A-832. It was determined that DOE provides support to the City's schools in regards to addressing, investigating, and following up complaints of student-to-student bias-related bullying. However, there were some issues with consistency in tracking and reporting incidents as well as handling them in a consistent manner among City schools. Recommendations were made to rectify these issues.
Analysis of Student Allocation Memorandum 65 to assess what is currently known about where students from families seeking asylum have enrolled in school and the budgets of those schools, and to prompt strategic thinking about the resources and attention necessary to help these students succeed.
Over the past several months, more than 19,000 asylum seekers have arrived in New York City, including more than 5,500 students who have entered the public school system. These children – who have little English proficiency, varying degrees of grade level readiness, possible special education needs,
This study, conducted with the assistance of Hay Group, provides projections of employer and City contributions to pension funds through Fiscal Year 2060. This study was initiated by the New York City Comptroller's Office to fuel the debate over public employee compensation with projections of the long-run trajectory of the City's pension obligations.
This report, by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer, provides a detailed examination of teacher retention in New York City and reveals how it impacts differing boroughs and school districts, including those most impacted by poverty.
This report analyzes progress on resiliency capital spending to date, after Superstorm Sandy. The report goes on to provide a snapshot of the property values, land uses, and essential infrastructure in the coastal floodplain, illustrating the range of critical assets at risk.
This report analyzes the data from the City's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports and fiscal notes to study the rise/fall of pension costs in the City over the past decade. Government contributions to pensions has become an issue in the wake of the recent recession and the City, facing large budget gaps, is no exception.
In The Bottom Lines, we take a look at a select set of agencies that were not spared from budget cuts, many of which have seen measurable declines in the quality or quantity of service they are able to deliver to the people of New York.
This audit assesed the efficiency of the HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) in processing client
applications for permanaent housing. HASA is not efficient in doing this, due to the audit findings. Case managers do not
track the progress of permanent housing applications filed with the Housing Unit. However, the
Human Resources Administration(HRA) officials acknowledged the problems identified during the audit and stated that
HASA has instituted changes. Severeal recommendations are made, which include that the Case Financial Assessment (CBCFA) packages are processed in a more
timely manner, and that supervisors track the timeliness in processing CBCFA packages.
This report illustrates that The City of New York completed its fiscal year with a General Fund surplus, as determined by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for the 33rd consecutive year.
The City of New York Office of the Comptroller
Bureau of Financial Audit
EDP Audit Division
Audit Report on the Automated Child Care Information System of the Human Resources Administration
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June 27, 2003
This audit report FL03-131A is for the Department of Homeless Services Over Its Computer Equipment.
The Department of Homeless Services has widespread problems with its computer inventory system. It has no writtten
policies and procedures for recording, reporting, and safeguarding its computer inventory. As a result of their poor
inventory control practices, $1,841,015 in computer equipment purchased during the audit period was not listed on the
Department's inventor records. Audit recommendations cannot be readily provided due to the extent of their problems.
It is clear that the entire system has to be overhauled.
This audit was to
identify New York City pensioners from the New York City Teachers' Retirement System (TRS), the New York City
Police Department Pension Fund (POLICE), and the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund (FIRE) who may be
illegally re-employed (double-dippers or disability violators). There were 24 individuals who violated applicable
sections of State and City laws such as RSSL 211 or 212 and 1117.
The Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) manages the
Department of Finance's system software and hardware. The audit determines that the Department has adequate controls
to protect both its mainframe and network environments. Security matters should be addressed such as the mainframe
environment containing the Department's information protection policies and procedures are not consolidated in one
document. In addition, there is no agency virus response plan.