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City Budget
Overview of NYS and NYC Adopted FY2024 Budgets
August 02, 2023
A presentation on the NYC and NYS Adopted Budgets.
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City Budget
Briefing on the Latest NYC & NYS FY 2023 Budget Updates
December 13, 2022
The latest updates to the NYC, NYS and MTA Budgets.
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State Budget
New York State Budget Fiscal Year 2023
Major Actions and Fiscal Risks As of First Quarter Update
August 15, 2022
From strong tax receipts that supported 12% spending growth and multi-year budget balance to recurring budget gaps.
Press Release
Economic Development
Pennsylvania Station Area Civic and Land Use Improvement Project
June 24, 2022
Read more on the outstanding issues that must be addressed for the project to have the maximum and most cost-effective impact for all New Yorkers.
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State Budget
Overview of the Fiscal Year 2022 Enacted Budget
September 01, 2021
This presentation provides an overview of the State’s fiscal condition over the past 18 months, and identify priority issues going forward.
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.
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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
Press Release
Energy & Environment
New York League of Conservation Voters and CBC release report on aligning policies to reach CLCPA goals
September 15, 2020
CBC and the NYLCV released a report identifying existing policies at odds with the goals of the CLCPA.
Press Release
State Budget
CBC Releases Strategy for Closing NYS Budget Gap
May 22, 2020
CBC released a report outlining the hard choices NYS leaders should make to close the FY 2021 budget gap.
Press Release
Energy & Environment
CBC Calls on NYS to Use Flexible, Market-Driven Strategies to Meet its Ambitious Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Goals
December 09, 2019
CBC Report Finds Massive Needed Scale Up of Renewable Generation Capacity Infeasible in Time to Meet 2030 Goal.
Press Release
CBC News
Twenty Groups Urge MTA Board to Promptly Appoint Traffic Mobility Review Board and Ensure it Follows Open Meetings Law
November 15, 2019
Twenty groups representing rider, watchdog and industry groups today sent a letter to the MTA Board urging it to promptly appoint the Traffic Mobility Review Board (TMRB) and ensure that body follows the state Open Meetings Law (OML).
Press Release
Transportation
Groups call for MTA Capital Program Review Board to Follow Open Meetings Law
August 08, 2019
Seventeen groups call on MTA Capital Program Review Board to follow open meetings law.
Press Release
Transportation
CBC Releases “Reform At the Bargaining Table”
Report Details the Need to Improve Productivity at the MTA and Recommends “Net-Zero” Wage Increases
April 30, 2019
CBC released a report detailing the critical need to slow the growth of labor expenses if the MTA is to become fiscally sound.
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.
Press Release
Transportation
CBC Releases "Swimming in Subsidies"
Report Details the High Cost of Subsidizing NYC Ferry
March 28, 2019
CBC today released “Swimming in Subsidies,” a comprehensive report detailing the high operating subsidy for the NYC Ferry service.
Press Release
Transportation
CBC Recommends Five Principles for Congestion Pricing
February 13, 2019
The CBC today released its five key principles for crafting an effective congestion pricing program.
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.
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.
Press Release
State Budget
CBC Recommends Strategies to Mitigate Federal Tax Law Threat to New York's Competitiveness and New Yorkers
March 19, 2018
The CBC released a comprehensive report detailing the massive impacts the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will have on the residents and revenues of New York State, as well as the steps needed to address these problems.
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Economic Development
CBC Report On BIDs Calls For Increased Oversight And Transparency
November 02, 2017
CBC examined the process for setting assessment fees, their uses, and the city’s oversight of BIDs, and recommends increased public review and performance evaluation.