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new guys, stay informed, saw this article posted in a FDNY thread...
January 27th, 2009
What can we expect from Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s preliminary budget, scheduled for release on Friday?
“A shock budget,” said the City Council’s Finance Director Preston Niblack this morning.
At a breakfast hosted by the New School’s Center for New York City Affairs, the finance director and a number of other panelists, including the Independent Budget Office’s Ronnie Lowenstein, opined on what the administration could do to address the debilitating fiscal crisis gripping the nation and the Big Apple.
Extracting from a fiscal analysis the budget office put out earlier this month, Lowenstein predicted the city would lose 243,000 in fiscal year 2009, which ends in June, and that we will face a $4.3 billion budget gap for next year’s budget (That’s more than 10 percent of city-funded revenues).
The budget process, which Lowenstein predicts will be year-round for the next couple cycles due to the recession, is officially kicked off this Friday by the preliminary budget release. The council’s budget response will follow, then the mayor’s executive budget, culminating in the final budget, which must be approved by midnight July 1.
Over the next couple months the council and the mayor will negotiate the details. But this year — unlike in the past when the process was rather congenial — squabbles will likely surface.
Niblack said the council is more likely to raise the income tax than the sales tax, which it would find regressive. Both would need approval from Albany, which has its own fiscal woes.
The city has already seen three rounds of budget cuts, and Friday’s proposal will likely repeat the slashing. Out of the five participants in this morning’s panel, four predicted the city would see layoffs this year (Only Mark Winston Griffith of the Drum Major Institute remained optimistic).
Lowenstein reasoned that because of the growth in the city’s labor force during the most recent boom (there are 280,000 jobs, she says), the city can afford to cut some positions.
“I wouldn’t say, ‘The sky is falling,’ when we have rounds of cuts coming up,” Lowenstein said.
yeh from a lady that has no clue and isn't gonna lose her cushy job. The city can afford to cut some positions yeh but people cant afford to get cut ladyy.. The city shouldnt have hired so many positions if they can't keep them...
We can issue violations to people who are idleing? (http://www.1010wins.com/NYC-Wants-to-Limit-Idling-Vehicles-Near-Schools/3743533 - broken link) What am I going to do with all that power?
i just checked my paycheck for 1/30/09 on nycers and it said my base pay was $652.73 without any extras....if that's correct...then multiplying that by 52.2 and my new base salary would be: $34,072...
last week my base pay was $638.41 and worked out to $33,325. The difference would be $747 a year...that would be a pay raise of 2.24% over $33,325. Is this the 3% hike they said everyone would get?
I didn't do the Math, but maybe since 2 weeks have gone by since we seen our first increase, the number to divide is no longer 52.2. It is probably less therefore increasing the raise snd the percentage of it.
ok question guys. my list number is ''82*''. I went for the pre-employment and the medical. I'm currently on the list for nypd tea. I went for my phych and oral psych and passed. now they want me to come down for an interviewand final investigation for consideration. the jon sucks and so does the pay. the only benifit to me is the time I would put in would count towards my 20yrs. do you guys think ill be called this summer for dsny ? if so do you think it would be worth it to be in the april class for nypd tea ?
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