{"id":69,"date":"2018-03-23T22:01:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T22:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/?p=69"},"modified":"2019-12-17T21:36:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:36:17","slug":"easy-to-understand-budget-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/2018\/03\/23\/easy-to-understand-budget-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy to Understand Budget Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to increase transparency and demystify the workings of the City Council, we are putting out <a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/budget\/fy2019\/\">redesigned budget reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So far, for Fiscal Year 2019 we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/budget\/fy18-22_financial_plan_overview\/\">Fiscal 2018-2022 Financial Plan Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/budget\/economic_revenue_forecast_fy_preliminary_budget\/\">Economy and Revenue Forecast for the FY 2019 Preliminary Budget<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-13-at-6.05.03-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-13-at-6.05.03-PM.png\" alt=\"Image of graph entitled Total Agency Spending by Mayoral Administration\" width=\"1153\" height=\"685\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-13-at-6.05.03-PM.png 1153w, https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-13-at-6.05.03-PM-700x416.png 700w, https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-13-at-6.05.03-PM-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-13-at-6.05.03-PM-1024x608.png 1024w, https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-13-at-6.05.03-PM-400x238.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1153px) 100vw, 1153px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From March to April, the Council analyzes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/assets\/omb\/downloads\/pdf\/perc2-18.pdf\">Mayor\u2019s preliminary budget<\/a> and holds a series of public hearings to identify specific concerns through conversations with residents, advocates, and city agencies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/budget\/economic_revenue_forecast_fy_preliminary_budget\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-13-at-6.03.20-PM.png\" alt=\"Image of graph entitled New York City Change in Employment in Number of Workers from 2016 - 2017\" width=\"577\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-13-at-6.03.20-PM.png 577w, https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-13-at-6.03.20-PM-400x347.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/budget\/\">Council&#8217;s Finance Division<\/a> analyzes the Mayor&#8217;s preliminary budget and offers feedback in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/budget\/fy2019\/\">budget reports<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/laws.council.nyc.gov\/committee\/committee-on-finance-fd25de1c2cc8\/\">Finance Committee Hearings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to increase transparency and demystify the workings of the City Council, we are putting out <a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/budget\/fy2019\/\">redesigned budget reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So far, for Fiscal Year 2019 we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/budget\/fy18-22_financial_plan_overview\/\">Fiscal 2018-2022 Financial Plan Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/budget\/economic_revenue_forecast_fy_preliminary_budget\/\">Economy and Revenue Forecast for the FY 2019 Preliminary Budget<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-13-at-6.05.03-PM.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From March to April, the Council analyzes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/assets\/omb\/downloads\/pdf\/perc2-18.pdf\">Mayor\u2019s preliminary budget<\/a> and holds a series of public hearings to identify specific concerns through conversations with residents, advocates, and city agencies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/2018\/03\/23\/easy-to-understand-budget-reports\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}