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City Budget
CBC President Carol Kellermann Debates City Budget
NY1
June 11, 2012
CBC President Carol Kellermann debate current City budget negotiations with James Parrot, Deputy Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Fiscal Policy Institute on NY1's Inside City Hall.
Op Ed
City Budget
Cleaning Up NY's Garbage Disposal
June 03, 2012
New York City generates more than 25 tons of garbage per minute. That's 14 million tons per year, and the city's Department of Sanitation spends $2 billion annually to collect and dispose of about a third of it.
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City Budget
CityWide: Carol Kellermann
CUNY-TV
May 22, 2012
CityWide series host Ken Fisher continues the 18th season on CUNY-TV, talking with Carol Kellermann, President of the New York City Citizens Budget Commission.
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City Budget
Fiscal Policy Experts Unpack Executive Budget
NY1
May 09, 2012
CBC President Carol Kellermann joined Inside City Hall to take a closer look at the proposals in Mayor de Blasio’s executive budget.
Op Ed
Pensions & Benefits
Sneak Labor Giveaway
May 05, 2012
Across New York, the cost of health benefits for retired government employees is growing so rapidly that it threatens to crowd out funding for essential government services. Rather than lay off police or close libraries, public officials may want to use their discretion to alter retiree health insurance — but some state legislators are trying to take away that discretion.
Video
City Budget
CBC Discusses Mayor Bloomberg's FY2012-2013 Executive Budget
NY1
May 03, 2012
CBC Discusses Mayor Bloomberg's FY2012-2013 Executive Budget
Op Ed
City Budget
Fix NYC’s ‘Prevailing Wage’ Law
March 27, 2012
The City Council is set to take up a bill to expand the prevailing-wage law to cover building-service workers in buildings and projects that get financial assistance from the city. Whatever the merits of that expansion, we urgently need much greater transparency in how the “prevailing wage” is determined.
Statement
City Budget
Statement on the CityTime Settlement
March 14, 2012
The $500 million CityTime settlement announced today is welcome news to New Yorkers. It is important that the recouped funds be used, not for short-term budget relief and restorations, but to help defray the costs of the City’s capital program.
Op Ed
City Budget
The Big Difference in Next Year's New York City Budget
February 23, 2012
Earlier this month, Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented New York City's Financial Plan for the next four years. It demonstrates a stark new reality: there is no large surplus of revenues, as there has been in past years, to help balance the budget.