FOCUS ON THE EXECUTIVE BUDGET: Before the Mayor’s recent announcement that that the city may need to lay off or furlough as many as 22,000 municipal workers, the Executive Budget included the elimination of some vacant positions and a partial hiring freeze.
FOCUS ON THE EXECUTIVE BUDGET: The Mayor’s budget for Vision Zero includes a relatively small cut in the Department of Transportation’s expense budget but an increase in capital spending.
FOCUS ON THE EXECUTIVE BUDGET: Capital funding for affordable housing preservation and development programs has been shifted and, in some instances, shrunk in the Mayor’s latest budget plan.
FOCUS ON THE EXECUTIVE BUDGET: The Covid-19 pandemic has added to the burdens of the city’s fiscally and physically troubled public housing. Does the Mayor’s Executive Budget provide help?
FOCUS ON THE EXECUTIVE BUDGET: Summer programs canceled, pools closed. A pandemic and budget shortfalls may lead to a summer of discontent—but substantial savings for the city.
FOCUS ON THE EXECUTIVE BUDGET: The Mayor’s savings plan for next year includes nearly $475 million in cuts to the education department—68 percent of the reductions target funding for general education classrooms.
NYC BY THE NUMBERS: Last November voters approved a change to the City Charter that increased staffing at the Civilian Complaint Review Board. Is staffing expected to reach the approved level under the Mayor’s Executive Budget?
FOCUS ON HE EXECUTIVE BUDGET: State aid for New York City schools has been cut in the budget recently passed in Albany, and may fall further as the year continues.
This report provides a summary of an evaluation conducted on the emergency financial relief program for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence. The program responded to the acute and unique needs of survivors of domestic and gender-based violence in New York City.
Local Law 1 of 2004, as amended (Local Law 1), outlines the responsibilities of multiple dwelling property owners and New York City agencies in the prevention of and response to lead-based paint hazards in multiple dwelling housing.