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CBC News
Annual Budget Briefing with NYS Budget Director Robert Mujica
Annual Budget Briefing (2021)
March 14, 2022
CBC's seventh annual budget briefing with Director Robert F. Mujica.
Video
CBC News
Conversation with Governor Kathy Hochul
A CBC Event
February 03, 2022
On February 3, 2022, Governor Hochul spoke about State budget and policy priorities and take questions from CBC President Andrew Rein.
Op Ed
City Budget
Fed aid is a bridge; stable shore needed: American Rescue Plan good for NYC only if used prudently
New York Daily News
March 13, 2021
The American Rescue Plan will not only provide tremendous support to individuals, families, businesses and organizations, but can be a game-changer for New York state and city government. Success, however, is far from guaranteed.
Press Release
CBC News
Watchdog Groups Urge Governor and Legislature to Make Budget Cuts Transparent and Not Enact Extraordinary Executive Budget Powers for Fiscal Year 2022
March 10, 2021
Seventeen major New York State watchdog groups are asking Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and Speaker Carl Heastie to disclose full details about State funding withheld from agencies and local governments in the State’s current fiscal year 2021.
Press Release
CBC News
Twenty Watchdogs Ask Governor’s Budget Office For Transparency About State Funds Being Withheld and Advanced as Emergency Adjustments to Budget
December 22, 2020
Public Does Not Currently Know How Much State Funding is Being Withheld From Individual Agencies Such as MTA, or By Program
Video
CBC News
How the Coronavirus Affects the City and State’s Bottom Line
Spectrum News NY1
March 10, 2020
Andrew Rein discuss the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the city and state’s bottom line.
Video
Transportation
Switching Gears: A New Way to Fund Transportation
A Panel Discussion
May 14, 2019
The Rockefeller Institute of Government and CBC hosted "Switching Gears: A New Way to Fund Transportation," a presentation and expert panel discussion on the vehicle-miles travel (VMT) fee.
Press Release
Economic Development
Editorials Call for Clean Contracting, Database of Deals in Budget
March 29, 2019
With two days left to finalize the state’s budget, editorial boards are again amplifying the call by watchdogs for Governor Cuomo and the legislature to restore integrity to the state’s contracting process.
Video
State Budget
Finalizing Tax Proposals for the State Budget
Spectrum News NY1
March 28, 2019
NY1 looked at education, congestion pricing and criminal justice and taxes and the proposal for five year extension of the millionaire's tax, CBC President Andrew Rein joined to help unpack the proposed budget.
Video
State Budget
NYS Budget Director Robert Mujica (2019)
Annual Budget Briefing
March 04, 2019
New York State Budget Director Robert Mujica reviewed the New York State Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2020.
Video
State Budget
State Budget Breakdown: Can Cuomo Fund All of His Mandates?
NY1 Inside City Hall
January 15, 2019
Maria Doulis, the Vice President of the Citizens Budget Commission, sat down with Errol Louis to break down Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget address and discuss whether he will be able to get it all done.
Video
State Budget
Attracting Amazon to the Empire State
Spectrum News
November 13, 2018
A push to bring up to 25,000 Amazon jobs to Queens could be a costly one to taxpayers in New York.
Video
State Budget
CBC Report Analyzes State Progress
Capital Tonight
October 19, 2018
As Governor Cuomo's second term comes to a close, and voters decide whether to give him a third term, the Citizens Budget Commission is looking at how the state has fared over the past eight years.
Press Release
State Budget
CBC Releases Comprehensive Analysis of Governor Cuomo's Two Terms in Office
October 18, 2018
The CBC released a comprehensive analysis of the major demographic, economic, and fiscal trends in New York State since Governor Andrew Cuomo assumed office on January 1, 2011.
Video
Economic Development
Friedfel Talks Economic Development Inititatives
Capital Tonight
July 12, 2018
Ten economic development bills passed the state legislature, but CBC says the current programs need to be reformed before anything new is added.
Press Release
Economic Development
Watchdogs Call on Assembly Speaker to Allow Vote on Database of Deals and Comptroller's Procurement Integrity Act
June 18, 2018
Bills that would increase transparency of state business subsidies and fairness of economic development contracts have already passed State Senate 62-0 and 60-2.
Video
State Budget
Tom DiNapoli, NYS Comptroller
CBC Breakfast Series
March 26, 2018
His remarks covered Wall Street performance and the City economy, the State and City budgets, and State pension funds. Watch the video here.
Statement
State Budget
CBC Urges State Leaders to Respond to the Federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act To Promote Competitiveness and Protect New Yorkers
March 26, 2018
With budget negotiations in the final push, here's what State leaders should do now and in months to come.
Op Ed
Education
New York keeps shortchanging poor students
And Cuomo’s Foundation Aid formula will do little to fix it
March 19, 2018
Fixing the existing Foundation Aid formula would allow the state to fully fund a sound basic education with current resources.
Video
Education
Citizens Budget Commission Analysis of Education Funding Proposals
Spectrum News
February 22, 2018
Making changes to Foundation Aid formula would better help school districts most in need while avoiding providing unnecessary amounts of funding to the wealthiest districts.