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PEG for Productivity
NYC's Fiscal Year 2023 Program to Eliminate the Gap
April 05, 2022
To increase the City’s fiscal stability and the quality of priority services, identifying and implementing efficiencies to reduce recurring costs without reducing services should be a high priority.
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City Budget
The City's Budget Gap Since 9/11
Factors That Caused It, and Plans to Close It
March 03, 2003
This report identifies the causes of New York City’s unprecedented budget gap for fiscal year 2003-2004 and recommends solutions to close it.
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City Budget
Don’t Step Off the Cliff
Fiscal Cliffs and Budget Gaps in New York City’s Fiscal Year 2025 Preliminary Budget
February 08, 2024
To balance the fiscal year 2025 budget while also ensuring projected spending fully supports all planned programs, the City should implement an additional PEG in the Executive Budget and shrink or eliminate programs that the available resources cannot fully support.
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Economic Development
Managing Economic Development Programs in NYC: Lessons for the Next Mayor From the Past Decade
The Most Important Economic and Fiscal Decisions Facing the Next Mayor
December 06, 2013
This paper describes the economic development programs used in New York City and assesses the experience during the Bloomberg Administration in order to provide suggestions for further improvements by the next Mayor.
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Housing
Cleaning House
How to Close the New York City Housing Authority's Operating Gaps
April 29, 2015
This report identifies the reasons for NYCHA's operating deficits in the last decade - insufficent operating subsidies, low rent collections, low nonrental income and high operating costs - and offers recommendations to increase revenues, curb expenses and improve productivity in order to eliminate NYCHA's projected $150 million deficit and improve conditions for its residents.
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City Budget
NYC Resident Feedback Survey: Community District Results
Reveal Wide "Satisfaction Gap" Between Districts
June 30, 2017
How do New Yorkers feel about quality of life and municipal services? It varies tremendously by community district.
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City Budget
What to Look for in the New York City November 2023 Financial Plan
November 14, 2023
When New York City adopted its fiscal year 2024 budget in June 2023 without addressing underlying structural imbalances, it virtually guaranteed that major fiscal challenges remained on the horizon.
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City Budget
Unpacking the PEG
Examining the Impact of the NYC November 2023 Financial Plan Savings
January 10, 2024
Agencies should continue to identify efficiency savings that do not affect critical program services.
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City Budget
Real Numbers, Real Choices
Recommendations for a Clearer Fiscal View in the NYC Executive Budget
April 18, 2024
New York City’s long-run fiscal stability is precarious, and its short-term prospects are uncertain. Major causes of this uncertainty are revenue estimates that may be unreasonably conservative and spending estimates for current programs that are alarmingly understated.
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Education
Target and Tighten
The Sustainable Path for School Aid Growth in New York
March 13, 2024
The State’s burgeoning SOF spending has widened budget gaps. Spending restraint is needed to close those gaps, and that will only be accomplished by limiting growth in school aid, which is nearly 30 percent of SOF spending.
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Education
A Better Foundation Aid Formula
Funding Sound Basic Education with Only Modest Added Cost
December 12, 2016
This report explains why Foundation Aid, a need-based State school aid program, was developed, what is wrong with it, and how to make it better.
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Economic Development
Opportunity Zones In New York State and City
August 20, 2019
The Opportunity Zone program may amount to significant losses for both NYS and NYC before rising substantially in 2029.
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Education
The Challenge of Making Universal Prekindergarten a Reality in New York State
October 23, 2013
Is the expansion of pre-k programs to all three- and four-year-olds in New York worthwhile and cost effective?
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City Budget
PEGs In Perspective
NYC FY 2024 Executive Budget
May 23, 2023
The vast majority of these actions will have no impact on services, thus far providing savings primarily by saving money that would not have been spent anyway.
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City Budget
Checklist for NYC Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Adoption
Strengthening the City’s Fiscal Health and Competitiveness
May 22, 2024
The City Council will wrap up its Fiscal Year 2025 Executive Budget hearings this week, kicking Administration and Council budget negotiations into high gear.
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City Budget
Hard Choices That Can Balance New York City's Budget
June 10, 2020
By making the right hard choices the City can balance the budget without resorting to long-term borrowing, layoffs, service cuts, or tax increases.
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Education
Is It a Good Deal?
How New Yorkers Should Judge The Next Teachers' Contract
November 11, 2009
The New York City teachers’ contract expired on October 31, 2009. A new agreement may be reached soon. As the City faces a $5 billion budget gap for the next fiscal year and key educational reforms remain unfinished, here are key questions parents and taxpayers should ask to judge whether the next contract is a good deal for them.
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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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City Budget
Getting the Basics Right
Fiscal, Managerial, and Policy Priorities for Recovery, Stability and Prosperity
November 08, 2021
To ensure that New York recovers, stabilizes, and ultimately thrives, the incoming Administration should set and implement fiscal, managerial, and policy priorities that will boost the city’s economy and competitiveness, and provide the services and opportunities necessary for New Yorkers to flourish.
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Energy & Environment
Can We Have Our Cake and Compost It Too?
An Analysis of Organic Waste Diversion in New York City
February 02, 2016
This report examines the feasibility and the cost of options for expanding the Department of Sanitation's organic waste program.