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DiNapoli: NYC Vehicle Fleet Meeting Goals on Fuel Efficiency but Aging Emergency and Sanitation Trucks Often Sidelined for Repairs
… over the past four years, driven in part by limited ambulance availability. Staffing Challenges: The number of vehicle repair personnel has declined by 9.3% since … fleet management and has been able to reduce the number of vehicles it owns to 28,768 (excluding rentals), …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/11/dinapoli-nyc-vehicle-fleet-meeting-goals-fuel-efficiency-aging-emergency-and-sanitation-trucks-oftenDiNapoli: Thruway Authority Owed More Than $275 Million in Unpaid Tolls and Fees
… The state’s Thruway Authority has to do a better job of identifying, billing, and collecting tolls and related … $276.3 million it has a collection agency seeking as of March 2023, according to a new audit from State … ways in which the Thruway can improve its collection of tolls and fees,” DiNapoli said. “Based on the Authority’s …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2023/05/dinapoli-thruway-authority-owed-more-275-million-unpaid-tolls-and-feesDiNapoli: NYC's 2024 Budget Balanced, but Risks Loom
… The city expects its $5.1 billion budget shortfall in FY 2025 to reach $7.9 billion in FY 2027, with cumulative gaps … has identified budgetary risks of $4.8 billion in FY 2025, $6.6 billion in 2026, and $8.3 billion in FY 2027, and projects potential …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2023/08/dinapoli-nycs-2024-budget-balanced-risks-loomDiNapoli: NYC's Miscellaneous Revenues Experience Slow Growth Post Pandemic
… Miscellaneous revenues include a variety of non-tax funds that fall under two categories: recurring revenues and … an estimated 8% of revenues from city funds in FY 2025. Economic Activity Fuels Weakness for Some Revenue Sources … Report Miscellaneous Revenues in New York City: What Has Changed? Related Reports Review of the Financial …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/09/dinapoli-nycs-miscellaneous-revenues-experience-slow-growth-post-pandemicDiNapoli: New York City's Budget Outlook Improves
… Year (FY) 2025, but funding for education and social services remain uncertain in the future, according to State … ahead to fund essential education programs and social services,” DiNapoli said. “The reality is that federal … pandemic are at risk. Education, health care, and social services that help working families are likely to cost the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/02/dinapoli-new-york-citys-budget-outlook-improvesDiNapoli: NYC Department for the Aging Faces Challenges Meeting Growing Home Care Needs
… New York City’s Department for the Aging (DFTA) provides home care and case management … is expected to be federally funded. 60+ Population Growing From FY 2019 to FY 2024, the population age 65 and older and … declined as the waitlist has continued to expand. In FY 2025, there were 3,121 home care clients served, with an …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2026/03/dinapoli-nyc-department-aging-faces-challenges-meeting-growing-home-care-needsDiNapoli Report Examines Post-COVID Trends in New York's Aging Prison Population
… trends in the state’s aging prison population. “The share of older people in New York’s prisons has grown over … population over the last two decades led to an increasing share of older incarcerated individuals (aged 50 and over). … a decrease of 1,603 individuals aged 50 or over (17%). The share of older incarcerated individuals peaked at 24.3% in …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2026/02/dinapoli-report-examines-post-covid-trends-new-yorks-aging-prison-populationOpinion 90-28
… services for subdivisions) GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, §805-a(1)(c): A planning board member is prohibited from receiving or … his or her private capacity, in connection with any matter pending before his or her agency, regardless of whether the … Whether a planning board member mayperform tests and design work for …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-28Opinion 91-33
… in the opinion. BAIL MONEYS -- County Treasurer's Fee (applicability of fee to interest earned on deposit of bail) -- Deposit and … for separate bail deposits); (applicability of 2% bail fee to interest earned on deposit of bail) COURTS -- Bail …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-33State Agencies Bulletin No. 2147
… Retirement Social Security Benefits: Per Internal Revenue Service Publication 957, OSC will be reporting retro payments … should utilize Locked Query LQ_PCD_PAYCHECK_EARNINGS_BY_ID to identify a complete list of regular earnings and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/2147-april-2023-retroactive-increases-location-pay-and-location-mid-hudsonNew York Local Government Assistance Corporation
… The goals are identified as follows: The issuance of up to $4.7 billion in long-term Corporation bonds to finance certain local assistance payments due from the … of New York (as well as certain other amounts necessary for the issuance of such LGAC bonds) to help eliminate the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/debt/lgacReporting Regulations 315.2 & 315.3
… lieu of reporting salary and service information on a hard copy document, as described above, an employer may comply … persons who are active members of the New York State and Local Employees’ Retirement System or the New York and Local … workspace and facilities (including, but not limited to, office, furniture and/or utilities); (m) the employer …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/retirement/employers/reporting-regulations-3152-3153DiNapoli: New York Sends More Money to Washington Than It Gets Back
… billions in state payments and public authority data. Visit the Reading Room for contract FOIL requests, bid …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2018/10/dinapoli-new-york-sends-more-money-washington-it-gets-backNew York City Construction Industry Booming
… added 45,300 jobs between 2010 and 2018, increasing by 40 percent. Construction was the second-fastest growing … in 2018, the highest in the nation, followed by Houston, Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth and Chicago. In addition to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2019/05/new-york-city-construction-industry-boomingOpinion 91-21
… (see, e.g., People ex rel. Conine v Steuben County , 183 NY 114, applying the prohibition to a county treasurer). … to fees or commissions (see, e.g., Cook v Stockwell , 206 NY 481; see also, Finn v City of New York , 282 NY 153; McCarthy v McGoldrick , 266 NY 199; and Emmitt v …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-21Opinion 90-20
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The … Uses (donation to firemen's association) -- Recipients (transfer of custody of moneys) -- Treasurer's Powers … Whether a village treasurer at the request of members of the village fire department may transfer …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-20Opinion 89-59
… and maintenance and capital costs) TOWN LAW, §§198(3)(d), 202, 202-a: A town board may raise all the operation and … to finance all costs of the special district ( Y.M.C.A. v Rochester Pure Waters District , 44 AD2d 219, 354 …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-59Opinion 89-26
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was … fire district is authorized to promulgate a form of annual statement of financial disclosure for its officers and employees, but if it fails to do so …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-26Opinion 96-9
… is the highest ranking subordinate to the chief of police so as to entitle the chief to an increase in salary depends … 70, 376 NYS2d 781, affd 50 AD2d 614, 375 NYS2d 500, lv den 38 NY2d 1004, 384 NYS2d 441; see also Aitken v City of Mt. … and effect. ... A contract must be interpreted so as to give effect to the intentions of the parties as …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-9Opinion 98-23
… village-wide maximum speed limit of twenty-five miles per hour ("m.p.h.") and, if it may not, whether any particular … ... village higher or lower than the fifty-five miles per hour maximum statutory limit. No such speed limit applicable … village shall be established at less than thirty miles per hour. No such speed limit applicable on or along designated …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-98-23