This document provides a comprehensive description of the portion of the New York City waste stream managed by the city’s Department of Sanitation (DOS). It is intended as a reference document. Actual FY1992-2000 data are provided, as well as projections from DOS for fys 2000-02
This document provides an update to IBO’s February 2001 Background Paper entitled “Overview of the Waste Stream Managed by the NYC Department of Sanitation.” Here, we present a condensed survey of the same data for fiscal years 2000-2004.
This report is IBO's analysis of the Mayor's Preliminary Budget for 2008 and Financial Plan through 2011. It contains IBO's forecasts and examinations of key budget proposals made by the Mayor.
This report examines the rising cost of recycling and what should be done to lower the cost of recycling. It provides different methods of solving the cost problem.
A letter from Ronnie Lowenstein to Gene Russianoff talking about the review and analysis of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's fiscal projections.
This article examines the benefits of the proposed Child Care Credit for tax filers who are too poor to owe state and federal tax but owe income tax and have children.
This article reviews how domestic violence has impacted the city spending. It includes the services provided to those suffering from domestic violence and how to prevent it.
This New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO) fiscal brief addresses the new federal rules for welfare programs that went into effect in 2006. The report addresses the introduction of the new rules, their purpose and impact on the current programs, analyses, and projections for the future of these programs.
This New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO) fiscal brief addresses the decreasing value of the City's subsidies to its three public library systems. The report addresses the purpose, importance, and use of the subsidies and analyzes the trend of the growing disparities among the library systems.
This report addresses the questions regarding the funding of vocational high schools and related matters. It includes information regarding the recent funding and spending trends of the City and the status of the schools that meet state and federal standards.
This New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO) fiscal brief addresses the disproportionate spending on students and general education in schools. The report includes data and analyses addressing the school system, general spending patterns in schools, teacher salaries, and other demographic related information.
This New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO) fiscal brief addresses the initiatives taken to tackle the disproportionate spending on students and general education in schools. The report includes the plan for the new funding formula as well as the impact and responses it has created. Also provided are data and analyses addressing the school system, general spending patterns in schools, the model for the spending changes, and other demographic related information.
Bloomberg proposed a 50-cent increase in the city's tax on cigarettes. The Mayor argued that raising the price of cigarettes, by increasing taxes, has proven to be a very effective method of
reducing smoking.
The financial emergency act was enacted in 1975 in response to NYC's historic financial crisis. After years of incurring substantial operation deficits, papered over with short-term borrowing, all masked
by inadequate reporting and accounting controls, the city found itself unable to sell its short-term notes in the credit markets in the spring of 1975.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg more than doubled the goal initially set in 2003 for his New Housing Marketplace Plan. The Mayor now aims to create or preserve 165,000 units of affordable housing over
10 years and anticipates spending $7.5 billion to meet the production and preservation goals.
The New Housing Marketplace Plan is Mayor Bloomberg's 10-year plan to create or preserve 165,000 units of affordable housing. The original five-year plan, announced in 2003, called for 65,000
units by 2008, but was expanded in February 2006 to a 10-year plan, ending in 2013, with a goal of 165,000 units.
This report details the impact of the City's congestion pricing plan on those who commute into New York City. The plan seeks to reduce workday traffic by charging motorists for driving into Manhattan, though this has a mostly negative effect on the commuting residents.
This report details the trends in the service levels and costs for the home care of senior citizens. Home care services are provided by private agencies under contract with the city and helps seniors stay in familiar surroundings, avoiding emotional disruption and the financial burden of long-term nursing home care.
In December 1994, just prior to the implementation of welfare reform initiatives, nearly 80 percent of New York City's food stamp recipients also received public assistance. For the most part, New York's
Food Stamp program was an extension of public assistance, with the vast majority of recipients enrolling in both programs at the same time.
This 2008 report focuses on the allocation and uses of resources for various competing budget priorities. Listed in this report are the various options available for saving money and raising revenue, as well as the weighed/approximated costs and benefits for each option.
NYC provides financial support to the Health and Hospitals Corporation. Changes in state Medicaid policy allowed the ctiy to provide more Medicaid payments to the hospital agency. IBO provides information about the Corporation.
The Department of Education's 2005-2009 five year capital plan intended to add more seats and repair and upgrade school buildings. IBO invesitgates the costs of the plan as it changes.
This report provides IBO's analysis of the Mayor's Preliminary Budget for 2009 and Financial Plan through 2012. The report includes our own economic and revenue forecasts and examines the Bloomberg
Administration's key budget proposals. It also highlights some of the fiscal issues facing the city, questions that become increasingly difficult as resources become more scarce.
Before Mayor Bloomberg established the 311 call line, the city relied on 40 help lines in order to handle complaints. IBO reviews the amount of spending for 311 call lines and provides more information on the call center.
Appendix - Methodological Notes - Provides background information and additional detail regarding the assumptions and methodology used in IBO's analysis of the Chapter 96 reopener legislation.
The legislature in Albany is currently considering a bill that would allow certain public emploees to retire at age 55 rather than 62 without a loss in pension benefits. IBO estimates that the bill would
increase the city's pension and fringe benefit costs by $68.1 million in the first year after accounting for savings from hiring entry-level replacements.
This report summarizes the effects of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to reduce homelessness in the city. The Mayor expanded homelessness prevention efforts as an attempt to decrease the number of people in the city's homeless shelters. The savings on shelter costs will be used to further fund prevention. However, despite these efforts, the number of homeless families in the city has risen, and spending on both prevention and shelters have grown.
This supplement provides further information to accompany Inside the Budget No. 157, which summarized the effects of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to reduce homelessness in the city. This report lists the amount of homelessness prevention spending that is provided by agencies and programs. These agencies and programs include the Human Resources Administration, the Department of Homeless Services, the Administration for Children's Services, and legal assistance contracts.
This report summarizes the City and State's response to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA's) request for more city and state aid. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Govenor David Paterson agree that the city and state already provides the MTA with an ample amount of aid; if this request is filled, it will further City Hall and Albany's fiscal difficulties. This report delineates the different funding streams that affect the MTA and provides background on how their current levels of aid are determined.
This IBO report examines the distribution of ICIP benefits and describes the programmatic changes between ICIP and the new Industrial and Commercial Abatement Program.
After examining the information during fiscal year 2008, IBO presents its economic outlook for the year 2009, claiming that there will be a decease in jobs and an increase in the budget gap.
IBO investigates the reason why there was an increase in the cost of Yankee Stadium-related parks. This report includes the background and facilities of the parks.
The City of New York faces financial pitfalls going into the next Fiscal Year, forcing the City to find and implement solutions that will increase savings and revenues. This report details over fifty financial options the City can take to improve its economic state. In addition, New York City's Independent Budget Office presents arguments for and against implementing each of these options. The goal is to analyze each option to figure out the best solution for the City.
This report, by the New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO), analyzes the Mayor's Preliminary Budget for 2010 and Financial Plan through 2013. The IBO compares their economic and revenue forecasts against the Mayor's, as well as examines his key budget proposals.
This Independent Budget Office report focuses on the Mayor's executive budget plan for 2010. Included is an overview of the state of the economy and analyses of the plan and current expenditures. Information is provided on revenue as well, and current actions taken that affect the budget plan.
This Independent Budget Office fiscal brief addresses the increase in spending to assist inmates leaving jail in assimilating back into society. This report analyzes addresses old and current program efforts to tackle this issue and their expenses. Projections for future plans to increase these efforts are also included.
This Independent Budget Office Fiscal Brief addresses the increased City funding for arts and cultural groups for fiscal year 2008. Data, information, and analyses are provided on the new funding allocation system and its effect on art groups and the economy in New York City. This change had several goals: to make sure more of these program funds were available to more groups, to adopt a peer-panel review system that would award grants on a competitive basis, and to foster some level of fiscal stability among larger organizations by providing them with multiyear awards.
This report, published by the Independent Budget Office, details the fiscal impact of the proposed Atlantic Yards arena in Brooklyn. It was found that over a 30-year period, the arena will cost the city more than it will generate in tax revenues. However, the arena will fiscally benefit the state, as well as create many new jobs.
This guide is to help get New Yorkers to understand and participate in the city's budget process by outlining the components of the city's budget, the timelines and processes for adopting it, and providing an overview of how the city raises revenues and how those revenues are spent.
The city's fiscal outlook for 2011 and beyond may be less fraught than previously thought. The IBO has concentrated on updating its economic and tax revenue forecasts.
With state policymakers now considering whether to allow companies to drill for natural gas in the Catskill/Delaware watershed, many environmentalists and other New Yorkers are concerned about
potential contamination of the water from chemicals used in drilling.
IBO has examined Internal Revenue Service tax filer county to county migration data to track NYC in-migration and out-migration from 1989-2007 as well as moves within the city over that period.
This report, issued by the Independent Budget Office, compares the per student public financial support for charter schools to the per student funding at traditional public schools. It was found that spending at each school varied based on their location.
This report provides IBO's review of the Mayor's Preliminary Budget for 2011 and Financial Plan through 2014. The report presents the IBO's own economic and revenue forecasts and examines some of the
Mayor's key budget proposals.
This Independent Budget Office Fiscal Brief addresses the analysis of former Mayor Bloomberg's executive budget for 2011. This report also gives and analyzes the past and current financial state of the City, and makes predictions for the future. Major areas of focus in this report are taxes, the impact on the economy, expenditures, and projections for future budgets.
This New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO) fiscal brief addresses the issue of overcrowding in New York City schools, particularly in high schools. Included are various data tables and graphs on the issue, as well as recommendations on how to combat this issue to alleviate the pressure put on a small number of schools.
An article about the increase in spending on the Runaway and Homeless Youth initiative and about the growing need for services for homless youths. The spending has doubled since 2005.
Following with the City Council's Safe Housing Act, the Alternative Enforcement Program was implemented by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. The purpose of this program was to improve the conditions of the city's rundown apartment buildings. Landlords have four months to fix their rundown apartments. After those four months, the city will reinspect the building, repair it, and send the bill to the owner, who will have to repay the city.
This article presents the budget challenges faced by the City in the upcoming fiscal year. The City faces challenges arising from rising pension costs and the expiration of federal funding, which makes it more difficult to keep the budget balanced.
This report compares schools proposed for closing against other schools. The schools proposed for closing are found to be low performing, with below average student performance. However, there is no guarantee that a closing school will be replaced by a more successful one.
This report explains the features that contribute to the stability of the property tax system. It shows how caps on growth in assessed value can lead to higher assessed values and how assessments move through the pipeline and how the pipieline grew through 2008, the year of the downturn.
The city is currently in relatively good fiscal condition, due to steps to cut costs and raise revenue. However, the Mayor's budget does not address potential new problems, leaving pressure against City Hall to ensure the preservation of programs that will be affected by these problems. Economic uncertainties threaten the city and can affect the city's employment growth and tax revenues.
This report lists the budget options the City faces after the recession. The recession caused the loss of a significant amount of state aid and federal cutbacks, as well as growing pension and health expenditures, debt service, and other costs. These problems must be rectified and the options listed are potential solutions.
The Mayor's approach to balancing the city's budget in 2012 lies heavily on the expenditure side of the city's ledger and underscores a message of fiscal austerity.
IBO's comparison of enrollment data for this school year with last school year for kindergarten through eighth grade finds that average class sizes are already on the rise.
The release last week of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's preliminary budget for 2012 and financial plan through 2015 prompted renewed concerns
over the agency's fiscal outlook. Transportation budget analysts have been praticularly critical of the amount of borrowing in the plan and the assumption of no wage increases
for the authority's workforce.
Just days after the events of September 11, 2001, President Bush and Congress promised that $20 billion in federal aid would be provided to help New York City
recover from the attack. Given the unprecedented scale of the destruction-physical, economic, and emotional-no one had real estimates of what the needs
and costs would be. As a result, the federal promise was loosely defined. Assistance was provided for immediate relief but a large portion of the aid was to flow to New York
over time as specific uses of the assistance were determined.
Web text supplement - Delays and disagreements over planning and financing the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, as well as a weak market for
downtown office space, marked much of the first half decade following 9/11.
In 2009 the state law granting the Mayor control of the New York City public school system was renewed. That renewal included a requirement that the New York City
Independent Budget Office "enhance official and public understanding" of educational matters of the school system. The law also requires the Chancellor of the school system to provide IBO with the
data that they deem nevessary to conduct their analyses.
The Administration for Children's Services lists assistance to prevent the need for foster care as one of four components of its child welfare service system. The transition from a system that emphasizes foster care to one that focuses on preventing the need for foster care has been unsteady. This report looks at changes in the city's foster care and preventive services programs over the last decade, including enrollment, spending, and funding.
The Economic Development Corporation is required to issue annual reports on the discretionary economic incentive deals it makes with businesses and nonprofit organizations that affect New York City.
This New York City Independent Budget Office fiscal brief gives a background and data on the AIDS epidemic in New York City. Included in this brief are caseloads and finances related to treating AIDS, reflections on efforts being taken to combat the epidemic at the time, and projections for the future.
This report looks at how the resources, broadly defined, of New York's households and businesses were taxed by state and local governments, and at how those revenues
were distributed, both geographically and among major government functions.
The Bloomberg Administration issued its update of the budget for this fiscal year and financial plan for the ensuing years through 2015. The understated release reflects a
budget plan that appears to leave the city idling at a fiscal crossroads as Bloomberg Administration scans ahead, trying to discern where the roads may lead.
Includes IBO Expenditure Projections, IBO Revenue Projections, Pricing Differences Between IBO and the Bloomberg Administration, and IBO versus Mayor's Office
of Management and Budget Economic Forecasts
For years the city's real property transfer tax and mortgage recording tax, often referred to collectively as the transfer taxes, were a predictable source of city revenue.
This report presents the IBO's new economic forecast and tax revenue projections along with their review and adjustments of the Mayor's spending plans under
the Preliminary Budget for Fiscal Year 2013 and Financial Plan through 2016.
The reports have beomce one of the primary means for rating and reporting on the effectiveness of each of the city's schools. Education department administrators
use the reports for making decisions about which schools and principals to reward and conversely, determining which schools to close or principals to remove.
Recent legislation in Albany, including changes in the budget adopted last month and set to go into effect in April 2013, have been aimed at improving the ability of the city and state
to get reimbursements for Early Intervention services. IBO has examined claims data from 2002 through 2010 and considered the likelihood these legislative efforts will
reduce the program's reliance on city funds.
New York City Independent Budget Office - Budgeting is essentially a series of tradeoffs, as city officials seek to balance the level of services that can be provided with the revenues that must
be raised to fund those services. These tradeoffs lie at the heart of IBO's annual publication of Budget Options for New York City. The report offers many options for bringing services and resources into
balance.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented his Executive Budget for 2013 and four-year Financial Plan through 2016. This fiscal brief describes the taxes and economical situation of New York City.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the largest city investment in housing construction in 2002. In 2005, he raised the amount of spending from $3 billion to $7.5 billion. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio looks at how the plan has evolved as fiscal conditions change.
The city's Department of Education typically assesses progress in raising proficiency rates by comparing scores on the state English Language Arts and amath tests of this year's third through eighth
graders with last year's. The IBO sought to identify any shifts in the achievement gap between students of different racial and ethnic backgrounds in the cohort they examined.
Since the 2001-2002 school year, there have been a dramatic increase in graduating students in high school. This article provides information and statistics of those in the Class of 2009 and how they relate to the percentages of dropouts and graduates. It also invesitgates what may be the cause of this increase in graduation rates.
This Fiscal Brief describes the effect of budget cuts on after-school programs for New York City children. Spending on after-school services, such as Out-of-School Time, have decreased, leading to major changes that affect the future of these programs.
This report lists the statistics of the High School Class of 2009, regarding the state mandated regents tests and the number of students who were deemed college ready based on them. This report uses each student's Regents exam results to track their progress towards graduation.