The Mayor’s Preliminary Budget proposes the elimination of nearly 300 vacant school safety agent positions. In this report, IBO explores these changes in budgeted and actual staffing.
In this report , IBO examines Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelter spending from 2013 through 2022 to show how state and federal decisions, as well as shifts in homeless populations over time, have impacted the funding of the city’s shelters over the past decade.
Testimony focused on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s deficit relief as proposed in the New York State 2024 State Executive Budget and on the financing of the Penn Station Revitalization Plan
A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph 19 (annual plan) of Section 815(a), including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies.
In this report, IBO explores the potential roadblocks to the Trust’s success, and its benefits and risks, as well as other operational reforms contained in NYCHA’s greater reform plan, A Blueprint for Change.
At the request of Council Member Chi Ossé, the IBO estimated the annual cost of introducing fare-free local bus service in New York City under three scenarios: waive bus fares for all riders, riders who are 65 or older or who have disabilities, and New Yorkers who are low income.
For each of IBO’s more than 100 budget options, including the new ones and many that have been recently updated, we outline key arguments for and against the proposals along with estimates of their potential to save or raise city funds.
IBO Assistant Director Sarita Subramanian's testimony on the city’s early childhood programs, focusing on funding for the city’s 3-K programs, as well as the pace of the city payments to contracted to 3-K and Pre-K providers.
IBO presents its Snapshot Report, which outlines our key findings on the local economy, projections of tax revenues & spending estimates under the Mayor’s Preliminary Budget
The New York City Independent Budget Office is pleased to announce that Louisa Chafee has been appointed director of the agency. Chafee brings more than two decades of leadership experience in both government and the non-profit sector to IBO.
On 1/26/23 the New York State Senate Standing Committee on Children & Families held a hearing on childcare in the state. IBO Assistant Director Sarita Subramanian submitted testimony on the city’s early childhood programs.
Testimony to a City Council hearing on changes to the city’s administrative code that would enable the city to implement its proposed Medicare Advantage.
IBO presents its Fiscal Outlook Report for Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025 containing our latest economic forecast, tax revenue projections and spending estimates.
This testimony (12/8/22) outlines IBO’s latest economic forecast and tax revenue projections, our current spending estimates for the city, and provides preview of our fiscal outlook for the coming year.
In a series of charts and graphs IBO presents some key findings from the data, in particular, how in 2020—the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic—total income reported by full-year New York City residents increased compared with 2019., along with 2020 PIT tables.
A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph 19 (annual plan) of Section 815(a), including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies.
As the MTA prepares to release its Nov. '22 financial plan, in a series of charts and graphs, IBO explores how ridership and user-revenues have recovered for each MTA service since March 2020 and whether the authority to is likely to meet its current 2022 fare and toll revenue goals.