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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.
Testimony
Transportation
CBC Urges MTA to Publish TYNA Addendum Detailing Costs, Benefits of State of Good Repair Projects
Submitted to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
May 22, 2024
CBC again urges the MTA to publish an addendum—prior to the release of the capital program—that includes detailed estimates of the costs, benefits, and timelines, for all assets and investment needs in the categories of “Rebuild” and “Improve” the system, including those that bring assets to and keep the system in a state of good repair.
Testimony
Transportation
Public Comment on the MTA’s Twenty-Year Needs Assessment for 2025-2044
Submitted to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
October 25, 2023
As it stands, the public does not have a clue how much it would cost over the next five years to begin bringing the system to adequate condition.
Press Release
CBC News
CBC Submits "Testimony on the New York City Housing Authority’s 2023 Physical Needs Assessment"
September 22, 2023
NYCHA’s PNA provides the information needed to identify what has happened to NYCHA’s housing stock over the past five years and to help plan for its future.
Testimony
City Budget
Testimony on the Recommendations of the NYC Advisory Commission on Property Tax Reform
Submitted to the New York City Council Committee on Finance
November 15, 2022
While momentum for property tax reform was slowed by the pandemic, the need for it has not diminished.
Testimony
Transportation
Testimony on NYC Ferry
Delivered to the New York City Council Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure and Economic Development
September 22, 2022
Reducing the ferry subsidy is vitally important to EDC’s capacity to meet its core economic development mission.
Press Release
CBC News
CBC Releases "Not Undercover: The NYC Fiscal Year 2024 Executive Budget for the NYPD"
May 17, 2023
CBC’s new blog finds that the $10.8 billion allocated to the NYPD for fiscal year 2024 is likely $600 million less than is needed to fund recent collective bargaining agreements and overtime.
Press Release
CBC News
Marissa Shorenstein Nominated to be Next Chair of the Citizens Budget Commission
September 08, 2022
Today, the CBC Executive Committee announced it has nominated Marissa Shorenstein to succeed Walter Harris as Chair of CBC.
Testimony
State Budget
Testimony on Improving the State Budgetary Process
Delivered to the Select Committee on Budget and Tax Reform
December 17, 2009
In this testimony the CBC assesses the effectiveness of provisions in the New York State Budget Reform Act of 2007 and makes additional recommendations for improving transparency, forecasting, and flexibility.
Press Release
CBC News
Marissa Shorenstein Nominated to be Next Chair of the Citizens Budget Commission
September 08, 2022
Today, the CBC Executive Committee announced it has nominated Marissa Shorenstein to succeed Walter Harris as Chair of CBC.
Testimony
City Budget
Testimony on Preliminary Report on New York City Property Tax Reform
Submitted to the New York City Advisory Commission on Property Tax Reform
June 16, 2021
CBC and many New Yorkers have called for reform of the City’s byzantine and unfair property tax system for decades.
Testimony
City Budget
Testimony to the New York City Charter Revision Commission
August 02, 2010
CBC submits this testimony to express our opposition to granting charter-mandated formula budgets to certain City offices, as doing so would be fiscally imprudent and would undermine the long-established process by which the Mayor and the City Council establish budget priorities as elected representatives.
Testimony
Education
Testimony to the Education Reform Commission
July 26, 2012
Simply put, the aggregate amount of money is not the problem. Rather, current funding needs to be re-targeted to reflect new priorities.
Testimony
Taxes
Comments on New York City Property Tax Reform
December 04, 2019
The balancing act facing legislators as they consider proposals to reform the property tax is how to increase equity, fairness, and transparency, while maintaining fiscal stability and reliability.
Testimony
Public Workforce
Testimony on the NYC Municipal Workforce
Delivered before the New York City Council Committees on Civil Service and Labor, and Oversight and Investigations
September 09, 2022
The City needs to move the existing vacancies to where they are needed, streamline the hiring process, and consider how to be more flexible given the tight labor market and modern career paths.
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
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.
Press Release
Health Care
CBC Report Finds NYC H+H Recovered Only 54 Percent of Associated Patient Care Costs from Insurers
Compared to 85 Percent for Safety Net Hospitals
December 16, 2019
Majority of H+H Deficit was due to low revenue for care to Medicaid patients, not uncompensated care for the uninsured.
Testimony
Transportation
Public Comment on Proposed Changes to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Fares and Tolls
Submitted to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
June 22, 2023
We support the proposed increase in fares and tolls since it is essential for the MTA’s fiscal health and wholly appropriate for riders and drivers to pay a reasonable portion of costs.
Testimony
Economic Development
NYS ABO's Oversight and Regulation of IDAs
Testimony before the New York State Authorities Budget Office
September 04, 2018
The purpose of today’s public hearing is to discuss regulations recently proposed by the Authorities Budget Office to impose additional disclosure requirements on local industrial development agencies (IDAs).