{"id":2197,"date":"2022-06-14T03:17:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T03:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2022-06-21T15:55:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T15:55:40","slug":"new-york-city-council-votes-to-adopt-the-fy-2023-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2022\/06\/14\/2197\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Council Votes to Adopt the FY 2023 Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

$101 billion budget outlines the new Council\u2019s vision to invest in communities, schools, and youth, securing record funding for key programs while increasing Council\u2019s budgetary powers<\/em><\/p>\n

City Hall, NY \u2013 <\/strong>Speaker Adrienne E. Adams, Finance Committee Chair Justin Brannan and Members of the New York City Council today voted to adopt the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget. This first budget under Speaker Adams and a new Council class reflects the Council\u2019s commitment and vision to increase its budgetary power to hold agencies accountable, while securing a Council record of funding priorities during city budget negotiations to invest in communities for key programs and services.<\/p>\n

The adopted FY 2023 budget includes many of the Council priorities to invest in communities to make New Yorkers safer. These include expansions of key youth programs, increased city funding for schools, expansion of housing access programs, a property tax rebate for working and middle class homeowners, funding for parks and sanitation services, and investments in community safety programs. This includes the creation of a new Speaker\u2019s initiative, the Community Safety and Victim Services Initiative. These priorities were outlined in the Council\u2019s Fiscal Year 2023 Preliminary Budget Response<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Council also ensured fiscal responsibility by curbing the growth of wasteful criminal justice system spending. It largely held the New York Police Department (NYPD) budget flat compared to the FY 2022 adopted budget by finding savings of $65 million from the executive budget ($5.59B) to the adopted budget ($5.53B). The minimal year-over-year increased expenditure was driven by non-discretionary commitments from existing labor agreements. The Council also eliminated the Executive Budget\u2019s proposal to increase the Department of Correction (DOC) headcount by 578 positions at a time when agency staff are chronically absent and conditions have worsened at Rikers Island, with a federal judge threatening to place it in receivership.<\/p>\n

The Council secured 18 new units of appropriation (U\/As) in its negotiation, historic for the Council in budget negotiations. It negotiated the creation of new U\/As for the NYPD for the first time in Council history, establishing six new units (a nearly 50% increase to 20 U\/As) that will provide the ability to ensure better transparency and accountability for the NYPD budget. It also doubled the number of U\/As for DOC, from four to eight. The establishment of new U\/As represents the Council expanding the use of its budgetary powers in a new way that facilitates better control and oversight of agency spending. The budget agreement also includes 60 terms and conditions, a record-breaking number for city budgets, that will require transparency and oversight into public safety, education, human services, and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Council secured historic reforms, bringing greater transparency to ensure communities are being met with the services they deserve,\u201d said Speaker Adrienne Adams<\/strong>. \u201cBy stepping into our budgetary powers to hold agencies accountable and strengthening oversight, we will uplift the priorities of New Yorkers and advance an equitable recovery for all. We will continue our work as a Council to ensure this budget realizes our shared vision of a safer, healthier, and stronger city. I thank Chair Brannan, our Budget Negotiating Team, and all Council Members who engaged in this process, as well as Mayor Adams and his administration for their partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis budget is a down payment on New York City\u2019s comeback \u2013 not the way it was, but the way it should be,\u201d said Council Member Justin Brannan, Chair of the Council\u2019s Finance Committee<\/strong>. \u201cFrom day one, we said our recovery would require real and meaningful investments in every community. We knew we couldn’t cut our way to prosperity, so we doubled down on what matters. We are a city of communities and, now more than ever, hardworking New Yorkers from Soundview to SoHo, from Dyckman Street to Dyker Heights wanna know their elected officials are working overtime to make their lives better. The City Council heard this clarion call and fought hard to deliver a prompt budget with both record investments and record reserves \u2013 a budget that puts money directly into our communities and back into the pockets of working families. I’m proud of my colleagues and the dedicated finance team who spent countless hours, late nights, and weekends working behind the scenes on this council’s first budget. I thank Speaker Adams for fostering an incredibly transparent and collaborative negotiation process and Mayor Adams and his team for recognizing our shared priorities of a stronger, safer, fairer, and more prosperous city for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FY 2023 adopted budget includes:<\/p>\n

INCREASING BUDGET ACCOUNTABILITY & TRANSPARENCY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Units of Appropriations:<\/p>\n

The FY 2023 adopted budget includes 18 new Units of Appropriation (U\/A) that have been prioritized by the Council, a historic amount to be added as part of budget negotiations. Highlights include:<\/p>\n