The Honorable Kathy Hochul  
Governor of the State of New York  
New York State Capitol Building  
Albany, NY 12224 

Dear Governor Hochul: 

We once again write to urge you to publish basic, multi-year financial plan tables on the Fiscal Year 2025 Enacted Budget. While the State is required to publish them in roughly one month, doing so right now would both provide New Yorkers the information they deserve and demonstrate your Administration’s commitment to transparency. 

Now 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. The State immediately should: 

• Publish at least one, multi-year financial plan table each for All Funds, State Operating Funds, and the General Fund; and   

• Include reasonably disaggregated and totaled lists of receipts, disbursements, transfers, annual bottom-line results, and allocations of fund balances for this year and three out-years. 

Thank you for considering this recommendation. 

Sincerely, 

Andrew S. Rein 
President 
Citizens Budget Commission  

Betsy Gotbaum 
Executive Director 
Citizens Union 

Susan Lerner 
Executive Director 
Common Cause New York 

Tim Hoefer 
President & CEO 
Empire Center for Public Policy 

Laura Ladd Bierman 
Executive Director 
League of Women Voters of New York State 

Blair Horner 
Executive Director 
New York Public Interest Research Group 

John Kaehny 
Executive Director 
Reinvent Albany 

Cc: Blake Washington, Director of the New York State Division of the Budget