THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FISCAL YEAR …

THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK FISCAL YEAR 2019

ADOPTED EXPENSE BUDGET ADJUSTMENT SUMMARY / SCHEDULE C

Hon. Corey Johnson Speaker

Hon. Daniel Dromm Chair, Committee on Finance

Hon. Vanessa Gibson Chair, Subcommittee on Capital Budget

Latonia McKinney Director, Finance Division

June 14, 2018

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Legal Unit

Rebecca Chasan, Counsel

Revenue and Economics Unit

Raymond Majewski, Deputy Director, Chief Economist Emre Edev, Assistant Director

Paul Sturm, Supervising Economist Hector German

William Kyeremateng Kira McDonald

Kendall Stephenson Davis Winslow

Budget Unit

Regina Poreda Ryan, Deputy Director Nathan Toth, Deputy Director Crilhien Francisco, Unit Head Chima Obichere, Unit Head John Russell, Unit Head Dohini Sompura, Unit Head Eisha Wright, Unit Head Aliya Ali Sebastian Bacchi John Basile Sarah Gastelum Kenneth Grace Zachary Harris Elizabeth Hoffman Daniel Kroop Jin Lee Jeanette Merrill Nameera Nuzhat Kaitlyn O'Hagan Jonathan Seltzer Andrew Wilber

Discretionary Funding and Data Support Unit

Paul Scimone, Deputy Director Savanna Chou Ray Furlong James Reyes Steven Williams

Administrative Support Unit

Nicole Anderson Roberta Caturano

Maria Pagan

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................................... 1 ANTI-POVERTY....................................................................................................................................................... 9 BOROUGHWIDE NEEDS........................................................................................................................................ 10 CHILDREN'S SERVICES .......................................................................................................................................... 11 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT .............................................................................................................................. 13 CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES................................................................................................................................ 17 CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS ................................................................................................................................ 21 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES ........................................................................................................................... 24 EDUCATION ......................................................................................................................................................... 27 ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES............................................................................................................................. 32 FOOD INITIATIVES................................................................................................................................................ 33 GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS .................................................................................................................................... 35 HEALTH SERVICES ................................................................................................................................................ 36 HIGHER EDUCATION INITIATIVES ......................................................................................................................... 43 HOMELESS SERVICES............................................................................................................................................ 45 HOUSING ............................................................................................................................................................. 47 IMMIGRANT SERVICES ......................................................................................................................................... 53 LEGAL SERVICES ................................................................................................................................................... 57 LIBRARIES ............................................................................................................................................................ 60 MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES .................................................................................................................................. 61 PARKS AND RECREATION SERVICES ..................................................................................................................... 68 PUBLIC SAFETY..................................................................................................................................................... 69 SENIOR SERVICES ................................................................................................................................................. 72 SMALL BUSINESS SERVICES AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT............................................................................ 78 SPEAKER'S INITIATIVE TO ADDRESS CITYWIDE NEEDS.......................................................................................... 85 VETERAN SERVICES .............................................................................................................................................. 86 YOUNG WOMEN'S INITIATIVE.............................................................................................................................. 89 YOUTH SERVICES ................................................................................................................................................. 93

APPENDIX A: AGING DISCRETIONARY..........PAGE 1-31 APPENDIX B: LOCAL INITIATIVES..........PAGE 32-176 APPENDIX C: YOUTH INITIATIVES..........PAGE 177-226

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Introduction

The budget is an opportunity to lay out a blueprint for New York City and to set forth the priorities and principles by which the City should operate. The Fiscal 2019 Adopted Budget represents the vision of the unified and independent City Council under the leadership of Speaker Corey Johnson.

We recognize that we are fortunate to adopt a budget during a time of prosperity for the City, but we know that this prosperity is not enjoyed by all. While Mayor de Blasio and the Council share many values, throughout this year's budget process the Council spoke with one voice to advance our priorities and to make clear to the Administration that we were not willing to accept anything less than what we know our constituents deserve. Throughout the Fiscal 2019 budget process, we pushed for, and attained, transformative initiatives and creative solutions to protect the City's social safety net and to provide much-needed resources to as many New Yorkers as possible, while at the same implementing fiscally prudent budgeting practices to protect the City's future.

The Path from Budget Response to Adoption

Budget Response On April 10, 2018, the Council submitted its response to the Fiscal 2019 Preliminary Budget which presented the Council's vision for increased accountability in the budget process and a budget that lifted up the neediest New Yorkers and afforded opportunities for all to continue on their individual paths to stability and success. The proposals set forth in the Budget Response were not created in a vacuum. Rather, they were formulated with the recognition of several different realities facing our City, including the unprecedented financial risks on the federal level, funding shortfalls on the State level, and the steep growth in spending that the City has seen under the de Blasio Administration. Therefore, the spending measures we proposed were focused and offset by identified revenue sources, savings, and agency reductions.

The Speaker and the Council Members targeted the Budget Response at several large-scale programs that we wanted to see included in the budget, in addition to the agency-specific improvements and enhancements that we prioritized. These significant proposals included:

Bolstering the City's reserves; Instituting Fair Fares; Providing a road to property tax reform; Prioritizing permanent housing; Directing education dollars to schools; and Improving accessibility in schools.

As always, the Council continued to press the Administration to adopt more accurate and transparent budgeting practices, including:

Recognizing unfunded State mandates, such as the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Subway Action Plan, Raise the Age, and Close to Home;

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More realistically projecting revenues and expenditures, by removing the anticipated receipt of taxi medallion revenue from the financial plan and lowering debt service estimates; and

Discontinuing the use of vague and overbroad units of appropriation in favor of the smaller, programmatic units of appropriation envisioned in the law.

Both throughout the budget process and it its Budget Response, the Council also had a renewed focus on the Capital Budget, as demonstrated by the creation of a new Subcommittee on Capital Budget, which for the first time held Preliminary and Executive Budget hearings focused solely on the Capital Budget and the Capital Commitment Plan. As part of this effort, in its Budget Response, the Council called on the Administration to stop front-loading the Capital Commitment Plan in the first two years of the five-year plan, to reduce excess and unnecessary appropriations in the Capital Budget, and to create more descriptive budget lines with fewer projects contained within each one.

Executive Budget When the Mayor released the Executive Budget on April 26, 2018, the Council was disheartened and frustrated by the lack of consideration of its Budget Response proposals in the Executive Budget. Of the 50 expense- or revenue-related proposals, not including the three State unfunded mandates that the Council persuaded the Administration to accurately account for in the financial plan, the Fiscal 2019 Executive Budget reflected full or partial support for only eleven of these proposals.

However, in a major triumph for the students in New York City's public schools in the Executive Budget, the Council secured $125 million in additional Fair Student Funding, the unrestricted funding that gives school principals the flexibility to decide how much to spend on instruction, support services, administrative functions, and enrichment programs. With this increase, every school in the City will receive at least 90 percent of its Fair Student Funding allocation, with the average rising to 93 percent citywide.

In addition, the Council made meaningful strides towards capital budget reform in this year's Executive Budget. Excess appropriations are often a result of the City frontloading the Capital Commitment Plan, which generates unnecessary new appropriations. With large available appropriation balances, the Administration can raise, lower, or create new capital projects midyear without coming to the Council for approval. Better alignment between appropriations and more realistic planned spending in the Capital Commitment Plan ensures the Charter-mandated checks and balances on the City's Capital Budget are maintained. Responding to the Council's advocacy, the Administration agreed to rescind $5.8 billion in excess appropriations in the Adopted Budget, in consultation with the Council, and it redistributed $6.4 billion in planned commitments from Fiscal 2018 and 2019 across Fiscal 2020-2022 in the Executive Capital Commitment Plan.

With these proposals included, armed with the information learned from agency Commissioners during the three weeks of Executive Budget hearings in May, the moving public testimonies offered by our constituents and service providers, and the data and knowledge that there were

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sufficient resources available to pay for our requests, the Council forged ahead with negotiations as a unified body.

And our persistence paid off for all New Yorkers.

Adopted Budget The Fiscal 2019 Adopted Budget is full of victories for the people of this City ? from our oldest residents to our youngest, from the neediest of us to those working so hard to stay in the middle class, from every borough, and from those of us who were born and raised here to our neighbors who have come from all over the world.

Fair Fares: One of the most significant achievements in this budget is the launch of Fair Fares. This program will make the nearly 800,000 New Yorkers living at or below the federal poverty level eligible for half-price MetroCard, thereby saving them more than $700 per year in transportation costs. The 12,000 veterans enrolled in New York City colleges will also qualify. In this city, mobility is opportunity. The $106 million included for Fiscal 2019 and the commitment by the Administration to continue to fully fund the program in the outyears will literally open turnstiles and doors to the neediest residents.

Increased Reserves: The Adopted Budget with add $225 million to the City's reserves. According to recent Finance Division analysis, there is a one-in-five chance that the current amount of reserves is not enough to make it through the Financial Plan period without having to make budget cuts or raise taxes. This infusion will help the City avoid painful spending cuts or tax increases during downturns allowing New York City to instead draw on its fiscal cushions.

A Road to Property Tax Reform: The Mayor and the Council jointly announced the creation of a Property Tax Reform Commission. To develop recommendations to reform New York City's property tax system to make it simpler, clearer, and fairer, while ensuring that there is no reduction in revenue used to fund essential City services. The commission will solicit input from the public by holding at least ten public hearings. The last in-depth review of the system by a government-appointed commission was in 1993.

Prioritize Permanent Housing: As the City's spending on shelter continues its sharp rise, the Council has continuously pushed the Administration to prioritize permanent housing solutions over homeless shelter spending. As part of the budget agreement, the Administration has agreed to construct more supportive and congregate housing at a faster rate, as well as to construct 1,000 new senior housing units across six new developments.

School Accessibility: No student should be prevented from attending their preferred school because they cannot get up the stairs and no parent should have to miss a school play or a parentteacher conference because there is no access to the auditorium or the second floor. New York City is better than that, and that is why $150 million will be added to the Adopted Budget for capital projects to increase accessibility in the City's school buildings.

Funding for Libraries: Libraries have an essential presence in every neighborhood of New York providing indispensable services in a safe and reliable space. Therefore, the three library systems

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will collectively receive $17.3 million, including $8 million in Council funding and $9.3 million from the Administration, with $7.3 million of the funding baselined. Additionally, the Administration will add $45 million in capital funding for the libraries.

District Attorneys: The District Attorneys' Offices will see an additional $16 million in the Adopted Budget, with $13.4 million baselined. In addition to baselining support for pay parity, the funding will support other programmatic initiatives.

Increasing Employment Opportunities for Youth: In order to come closer to meeting the demand for summer youth jobs, $10.3 million will be added to the Summer Youth Employment Program to support an additional 5,000 slots, for a total of 75,000 jobs in the summer of 2018. In addition, the Administration agreed to fully fund Work, Learn, Grow, the year-round youth employment program, with a $19 million restoration that will fund thousands of additional slots in Fiscal 2019.

Pick Up More Trash: The Administration has added $3.5 million for additional sanitation services, including increased basket pick up on Sundays. This funding will be combined with $11.2 million from the Council's NYC Clean Up Initiative, which received a $1 million enhancement over Fiscal 2018.

Maintain Services for Parks: The Department of Parks and Recreation budget will be increased by $12.3 million which will allow for the employment of an additional 150 parks maintenance workers, a one-week extension of the pool and beach season, and for increased tree stump removal.

Summer SONYC: Since the release of the Executive Budget, the Council tirelessly advocated for the restoration of Summer SONYC. As a result, the Administration has agreed to restore 22,800 slots at a cost of $15 million in Fiscal 2019.

Adult Literacy: Approximately 2.2 million adult New Yorkers lack English proficiency or a high school diploma. The City's adult literacy programs will be preserved by the addition of $12 million, $8 million of which is funded by the Administration and $4 million of which is funded by Council initiatives.

3-K for All Capital Investment: The Council called for the Administration to identify the seat need for 3-K for All in the Education Capital Plan. For the first time, the Administration is doing so and will include $306.6 million in capital funding for the roll-out and expansion of 3-K for All. This appropriation will fund 5,000 new seats.

Baselining Council Initiatives and One-Year Funding While the traditional "budget dance" ended with the conclusion of the Bloomberg Administration, the de Blasio Administration continues to play games with certain core agency services and vital programs that it funds for only one year at a time or assumes that the Council will fund through our initiative funding. This attempt to have the Council settle for the restoration of programs that the Council knows are so important to our constituents in lieu of the inclusion of other budget priorities in the Adopted Budget is unacceptable. For the sake of the New Yorkers who rely on these programs that cost relatively small amounts of money, but that have giant

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impacts on the lives of those who need the most help, the Council demanded that this practice be curbed this year. As a result, the Administration baselined $55.9 million of programs that provide fundamental services and deserve a stable funding stream and of Council initiatives that had been funding core agency services.

COMPASS: The Comprehensive After School System (COMPASS) program helps to support the development of young New Yorkers in kindergarten through twelfth grade with academic and other enrichment activities. The Fiscal 2019 Adopted Budget will include $16 million, with $8 million baselined, to maintain and stabilize programs citywide.

Crisis Management System: The Adopted Budget will include $35.4 million, of which $9.4 million is newly baselined Council initiative funding that deploys teams of credible messengers who mediate conflicts on the street and connect high-risk individuals to services that can reduce the long-term risk of violence.

Support for the Arts: The Council's Support for the Arts Initiative, which provides programming support to new and existing cultural organizations to expand their services, will be baselined at $5 million, with $1 million going to local arts councils and $4 million for cultural organizations and programs. This brings the total additional cultural funding to $20 million. The Administration will also add $109 million in capital funding for cultural organizations.

Emergency Food Assistance Program (EFAP): Emergency food is a crucial part of our social safety net, yet baseline funding for this program has not been increased for several fiscal years. The Fiscal 2019 Adopted Budget will include over $20 million for EFAP, with $8.7 million baselined.

Runaway and Homeless Youth: An additional $3 million will be baselined for 60 new runaway and homeless youth shelter beds that will extend services to youth 21-24 years old.

Child Care Vouchers: The Administration will baseline $14.8 million for Priority 5 Child Care vouchers, which are available to children on the Administration for Children's Services waitlist whose parent is employed or enrolled in a training program and whose family's income is at or below 200 percent of the State Income Standard.

Council Initiatives With the above-referenced items baselined by the Administration, this year the Council could rightly focus its initiative spending on enhancing what is already funded in the budget and filling in gaps in services as identified by Council Members as representatives of their local districts and in their capacities as Committee Chairs.

Guidance Counselors: Guidance counselors are an integral part of the school community and work closely with individual students, as well as the entire school community to address academic planning, social-emotional development, and career and post-secondary planning. There are currently many schools that do not have a single guidance counselor or social worker. This initiative will allocate $2 million to ensure that the schools with the neediest populations have a guidance counselor on staff.

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