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Education
School Spending, Enrollment, and Fiscal Cliffs 101:
The NYC Department of Education Budget Before, During, and After the Pandemic
April 11, 2023
Decisions about the DOE’s budget should consider enrollment declines and the City’s precarious fiscal condition.
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State Budget
Lump Sum Warning
$14.8 Billion in Proposed State FY 2024 Discretionary Lump Sum Spending Authority Invites Waste and Corruption
March 31, 2023
The State’s resources should be allocated transparently and based on clearly articulated priorities, quantified assessments of needs, and the likely evidence-driven benefits of the spending.
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CBC News
A Conversation with First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright
A CBC Event
March 30, 2023
First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright joined CBC to talk about the Administration's Get Stuff Done management approach, the City and State budgets, how the Mayor and Governor align on housing, and much more.
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State Budget
Steep Incline and Cliffs Ahead:
Unaffordable NYS FY 2024 Spending Proposals Put Future at Risk
March 24, 2023
New York State’s budget has recently grown at an incredible and unsustainable rate, risking future instability and setting the stage for damaging service cuts or counterproductive tax increases.
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CBC News
Conversation with NYS Budget Director Robert Megna
A CBC Event
March 16, 2023
2023 Annual Budget Briefing with NYS Budget Director Robert Megna.
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CBC News
91st Annual Gala
Videos, Photos, and Transcripts
February 17, 2023
CBC's Gala is a must-attend event for New York's business and civic leaders. The Citizens Budget Commission honored NYS Governor Kathy Hochul with the Medal for High Civic Service and Stephen Berger was honored with the Felix G. Rohatyn Award.
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CBC News
A Conversation with NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams
A CBC Event
January 23, 2023
Speaker Adams leads the most diverse and first women-majority Council in city history as the body’s first African American Speaker.
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CBC News
Settling Accounts: Fixing How New York State Budgets
A CBC Event
January 05, 2023
In a half-day event produced in partnership with the Rockefeller Institute of Government, panelists unpack the issues and explore the most important reforms to pursue in the upcoming session and in the long-run.
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State Budget
Giving and Getting
Regional Distribution of Revenue and Spending in New York State Budget
December 19, 2011
The report analyzes the regional distribution of revenues collected and dollars spent within the New York State budget by examining actual receipts and expenditures for the 2009-10 fiscal year. It finds that downstate gives more to the State in taxes and revenues than it gets back in expenditures for services and other assistance and that upstate gets more than it gives.
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Capital Spending
New York City's Water and Sewer System
Is the Rent Too Damn High?
December 14, 2011
This report provides a history of the City's water rental payment, critiques the current method for setting the rent, and suggests alternative approaches to setting the rent.
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Health Care
A Poor Way to Pay for Medicaid
Why New York Should Eliminate Local Funding for Medicaid
December 11, 2011
This paper examines the fiscal inequities and other problems that arise as a result of New York’s largelocal share for Medicaid financing.
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City Budget
What is a “Balanced Budget”?
November 08, 2011
This brief examines the multiple versions of a balanced budget standard that have arisen from the City's deviation from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and recent modifications to GAAP that set a new and higher benchmark for a balanced budget.
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City Budget
NYC Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo
CBC Breakfast Series
September 21, 2011
CBC Breakfast with Corporation Counsel Michael A. Cardozo in September 2011.
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Economic Development
Avoiding Past Mistakes
Principles for Governing Regional Economic Development Councils
September 12, 2011
This report examines New York State economic development programs' past mistakes and explores the potential to improve meaningful outcomes via new regional councils designed to streamline and coordinate the current array of state economic development efforts. It warns of the danger that new regional councils will become new heads on the already huge an unwieldy New York State economic development portfolio.
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Pensions & Benefits
Robert Steel, NYC Deputy Mayor
CBC Breakfast Series
August 31, 2011
CBC Breakfast with NYC Deputy Mayor Bob Steel in August 2011.
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State Budget
The Broken Umbrella
How to Make New York State's Rainy Day Fund More Useful
June 05, 2011
This report explores the reasons why New York has not developed an effective rainy day fund and presents four guidelines for how the State can create a more useful rainy day fund.
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Health Care
Jason Helgerson, NYS Medicaid Director (2011)
MRT Update
May 06, 2011
2011 Medicaid Redesign Team Briefing given by NYS Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson.
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Transportation
Jay Walder, MTA Chairman and CEO
CBC Breakfast Series
April 16, 2011
A forum discussing the future of the MTA's Capital Plan, with opening remarks by MTA Chair & CEO Jay Walder.
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Education
SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher (2011)
CBC Breakfast Series
April 08, 2011
CBC Breakfast with SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher in April 2011.
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Transportation
Benchmarking Efficiency for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Services
April 05, 2011
This report helps identify priorities for ongoing efforts to control costs at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority through benchmarking by comparing unit cost measures with other large urban transit agencies in the United States. It also suggests priorities for new efficiency initiatives.