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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.