This audit was performed to assess the New York City Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) procurement of the Brooklyn Bridge Rehabilitation of Approach Spans and Ramps and Painting of the Entire Bridge contract (Contract No. 20100016889 or Contract No. 6) ...
The objective of the audit was to determine whether JCDecaux accurately reported its advertising revenue to the City and remitted timely payments, both monetary and in non-monetary “alternative compensation,” due to the City as stipulated in the agreement.
The number of students in the city’s public schools who lived for some part of the school year in New York’s homeless shelters during school year 2015-2016 rose by more than 4,000, or 15 percent, over the preceding year to nearly 33,000.
Have inspections for rats by the health department’s Bureau of Veterinary and Pest Control Services been increasing? We track changes in the number of initial inspections citywide and by borough.
Whether students with disabilities were recommended a paraprofessional differed based on the type of disability classification and the borough where the student attended school.
Under federal and state law, families with young children receiving cash assistance and participating in work or training programs are guaranteed vouchers to pay for their choice of child care providers.
The Municipal Archives (MA) at the Department of Records and Information Services acquires, preserves, and provides access to City government records. Municipal Archives Collections processed in 2015, and Municipal Archives Collections processing metrics
The New York City Charter (“Charter”) requires that all contracts and agreements entered into by City agencies be registered by the Comptroller prior to implementation.
A report detailing the status of the Office of Building Water Supply Oversight's (BWSO) cooling tower program and the number of cases of Legionnaire's disease in the city.
This report specifies all facilities managed by the Department with accessible features. Also listed in the report are projects (a) designed in 2015 to comply with the 2010 standards for accessible design, (b) which completed construction in 2015 which comply with the 2010 standards
LL29 of 2000 requires some agencies to offer voter registration in their work with the public. Mayoral Directive One of 2014 strengthened LL29, and put a structure in place to monitor efforts, and LLs 61 and 63 of 2014 increased the number of agencies required to offer voter registration.
This report focuses on the work of NYC's Accountability Review Panel in 2015 and 2016. The Panel reviews fatalities of children whose families were the subject of a child protective investigation or otherwise received services from ACS within the last ten years or at the time of the fatality.
Report regarding NYC DOT installations of Accessible Pedestrian Signals (APSs) to assist pedestrians who are blind or have low vision in crossing the street.
This report details a study of transition-age youth age 18-21 who exit from DYCD, DHS, and ACS. It describes three-year outcome trajectories for youth and their patterns of service use by distinct groups.
The Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence released A Foundation Report: Stalking, which provides a definition of stalking, prevalence statistics, an overview of prevention efforts and programs to assist victims of stalking.
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.
Local Law 26/2011 requires agencies responsible for preparing for and responding to snow emergencies provide an annual snow preparedness and response report for each snow event of six inches or greater. This report is for the snow events in January and March of 2015.