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Podcast episode
City Budget
3, Comptrollerpalooza!
September 24, 2024
3 is the number of current and former Comptrollers who sat down to discuss the City and State's finances, economy, population loss and more. While jobs and tourism have recovered, New York continues to face challenges with hybrid work affecting downtowns and the office market, housing affordability, future budget gaps, and needed infrastructure investment. Former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson moderated a discussion during which NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and NYC Comptroller Brad Lander dig into what the City and State is doing with your money and New York's future.
Video
City Budget
Comptrollerpalooza!
NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and NYC Comptroller Brad Lander
September 23, 2024
Moderated by former NYC Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr.
Letter
State Budget
CBC Urges Support of Procurement Reform Legislation in NYC
Extend Joint Bidding on Public Works Contracts and Authorize Alternative Project Delivery Methods
September 10, 2024
CBC has long supported procurement reforms that reduce construction costs and accelerate much needed public works and infrastructure projects.
Letter
State Budget
Watchdogs Urge Governor to Sign A10281/S9171 to Require Publication of Contracts Exempt from Oversight
A Letter to the Governor
August 27, 2024
This legislation is a commonsense transparency measure that would bring much needed sunlight to the State’s emergency spending.
Letter
Economic Development
CBC Urges Veto of ICAP Extension
S9822/A10530 Extends NYC's Industrial and Commercial Abatement Program Without First Evaluating Its Effectiveness
August 13, 2024
Alternatively, a one-year extension would allow time to evaluate ICAP's cost-effectiveness and identify beneficial eligibility and benefit changes
Podcast episode
Housing
109,000, with Dan Garodnick
August 09, 2024
109,000 is the number of new homes New York City aims to create over the next 15 years through its City of Yes for Housing Opportunity zoning proposal.
Video
City Budget
Briefing on the NYS and NYC Fiscal Year 2025 Budgets
July 30, 2024
CBC's Ana Champeny and Patrick Orecki delivered a briefing on the fiscal year 2025 budgets of New York State and New York City, including basic fiscal overviews and the risks facing the State and the City.
Podcast episode
City Budget
$116 billion, with Council Member Justin Brannan
July 26, 2024
$116 billion is the total NYC adopted budget for FY 2025, including the $4 billion of FY25 bills that were prepaid. This year’s budget talks between the Mayor and City Council took several twists and turns, ending with the narrowly on-time arrival of an adopted budget. New York City Council Member Justin Brannan, Chair of the Council’s Finance Committee, joined the podcast to discuss the budget, the Council’s role, and his prior career as a musician.
Statement
City Budget
Statement on New York City Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Agreement
June 28, 2024
The budget dance being alive and well is not music to our ears. City leaders have ended the dance in step, unfortunately with too little regard for the City’s long-term fiscal stability.
Podcast episode
State Budget
$8.8 Trillion, with Adrienne Harris
June 27, 2024
$8.8 trillion is the total combined assets of the nearly 3,000 financial institutions that are regulated and supervised by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS). In addition to navigating serious banking crises in recent years, DFS faces challenges on the horizon: artificial intelligence, cyber security, and cryptocurrency, to name a few. Joining the podcast is DFS Superintendent Adrienne Harris, who shares with us the important work state leadership is doing to ensure a strong and secure financial services sector, while navigating this rapidly changing landscape.
Video
State Budget
Conversation with Adrienne Harris
Superintendent of the NYS Dept. of Financial Services
June 21, 2024
Since taking over at DFS, Superintendent Harris has overhauled the agency and taken decisive actions on a series of defining issues including virtual currency, cybersecurity, and consumer protection.Superintendent Harris is a former CBC New Leader.
Letter
City Budget
Improving Fiscal Integrity and Stability in NYC's FY25 Budget
A Letter to the Mayor and City Council
June 17, 2024
The decisions you make adopting the fiscal year 2025 budget will not only affect the City’s activities in the upcoming year, but will set the stage for the City’s ongoing fiscal capacity and stability to provide needed services and weather future crises.
Podcast episode
City Budget
6,632, with First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright
June 13, 2024
6,632 is the number of NYC households who responded to CBC's 2023 NYC Resident Survey: "Straight from New Yorkers." The survey provides the most comprehensive, statistically valid, post-pandemic view of how New Yorkers are feeling about the City's quality of life and the quality of government services. Among the many eyebrow-raising pieces of feedback coming Straight from New Yorkers: Only 30% of rate their quality of life as excellent or good, down from 50% in 2017. Joining the pod to discuss the survey results and the City's priorities is New York City First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright.
Statement
Transportation
Statement on Congestion Pricing and Funding Discussions in Albany
June 07, 2024
New York should not vie for the triple crown of bad governing—knee jerk reaction, shortsighted fiscal maneuvers, and a backroom deal outside the budget process.
Statement
Transportation
Statement on Congestion Pricing
Stay the Course; Critical Needs to Ensure State of Good Repair
June 05, 2024
Congestion pricing is the transit trifecta—providing critical funding for transit, reducing emissions, and easing congestion. We should stay the course.
Special Feature
State Budget
Did You Know?
NYS Enacted Budget Edition
May 24, 2024
Release of Financial Plan Shows $2B More in Spending over State’s Initial Report.
Letter
State Budget
Importance of Immediately Publishing Financial Plan Tables
A Letter to Governor Hochul
May 02, 2024
Weeks after announcing the budget agreement, New Yorkers still do not know most of the basics about how their money is being spent and the future implications of decisions made while enacting the budget.
Special Feature
City Budget
Did You Know?
NYC FY 2025 Executive Budget Edition: Spending Growth [1]
May 01, 2024
The NYC Fiscal Year 2025 Executive Budget proposes to increase City-funded spending 6.3 percent, or $5.2 billion, from fiscal year 2024 to fiscal year 2025.
Statement
City Budget
Underbudgeting Still Clouds City’s Fiscal Picture, Even with Expanding Economy
April 24, 2024
While an expanding economy brightens the revenue outlook, low-balled expenditures still cloud the City’s fiscal picture.
Special Feature
City Budget
FAQ NYC: ‘Don’t Fudge It in the Budget’
The CITY's Podcast
April 22, 2024
Citizens Budget Commission President Andrew Rein joins hosts Katie Honan and Harry Siegel to break down what we know about the nearly quarter-trillion-dollar State budget that just dropped, weeks late, what to expect from the city's ongoing budget negotiations, and much more.