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DiNapoli Warns Changing Fiscal Landscape Could Increase Budget Challenges for Local Governments
… aid to local governments. The State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2024-2025 Enacted Budget provides $715 million in AIM funding for … growth of property tax levies to the lesser of 2% or the rate of inflation. Although the rate of inflation has been decreasing, it remains over 2%, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/02/dinapoli-warns-changing-fiscal-landscape-could-increase-budget-challenges-local-governmentsDiNapoli: As NYC Budget Stabilizes, New Risks Emerge
… New York City increased its expectations for its surplus in fiscal year (FY) 2025 to $2.34 billion, largely as a result of stronger tax revenue … seekers, which will help balance its $116.9 billion FY 2026 budget, according to a report released today by State …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/02/dinapoli-nyc-budget-stabilizes-new-risks-emergeDiNapoli: Administrative Streamlining Can Strengthen Fragmented NYC Child Care Programs
… New York City’s child care services for those under the age of five, including the demand for these programs and … measures of success, and found there are opportunities to utilize existing data to increase the cost efficiency of … the per-participant cost of services provided across the age spectrum by improving standardization of services and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2026/01/draft-dinapoli-administrative-streamlining-can-strengthen-fragmented-nyc-child-care-programsDiNapoli: NYC's Open Streets Program Supported Retail and Restaurant Job Recovery in Manhattan, Brooklyn
… 2021. Between 2020 and 2024, a total of 510 unique Open Street locations were in operation across the city, with 2021 … and Greenwich Village boasted the greatest number of Open Street locations citywide with 40, followed by 30 in … and Fort Greene neighborhoods, and Manhattan’s Midtown, East Midtown and Flatiron neighborhoods with 28. DOT places …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2026/01/dinapoli-nycs-open-streets-program-supported-retail-and-restaurant-job-recovery-manhattan-brooklynState Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli Statement on Mayor de Blasio's State of the City Address
… "Mayor de Blasio has managed the city’s finances responsibly and … challenging times and New Yorkers need leaders like Mayor de Blasio." … Mayor de Blasio has managed the citys finances responsibly and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/02/state-comptroller-thomas-p-dinapoli-statement-mayor-de-blasios-state-city-addressPhotos: State Comptroller DiNapoli Visits Wyoming County Farm
… Springs and produces milk, as well as corn, alfalfa, wheat and oats. "Farms such as Silver Meadows provide jobs …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2018/09/photos-state-comptroller-dinapoli-visits-wyoming-county-farmDiNapoli: Proposed Budget Holds the Line on Spending, Gives Executive Wider Discretion
… of 1.7 percent, or $1.6 billion, from SFY 2014-15. Based on these projections, and after adjusting for prepayments and … in State Operating Funds expenditures to 2 percent. Based on projections of revenues and disbursements by DOB, and … gaps are more than one-third larger than estimates based on the SFY 2014-15 Executive Budget. The Governor's spending …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/02/dinapoli-proposed-budget-holds-line-spending-gives-executive-wider-discretionNew York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli Gives Best Wishes For New Year, 01/01/15
… “New Year's Day is a fresh start and a time to embrace new goals derived from lessons learned over the past year. … New Years Day is a fresh start and a time to embrace new goals derived from lessons learned over the past year …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/01/new-york-state-comptroller-thomas-p-dinapoli-gives-best-wishes-new-year-010115Opinion 88-11
… to a charitable trust have changed, rendering exact compliance with its terms impossible or impracticable, a …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-11Opinion 2009-2
… State Comptroller's Disapproval Mem, Bill Jacket, L 1974, ch 521, at 2). 4 In setting forth the threshold for when the … . Office for Local Government Mem, Bill Jacket, L 1974, ch 512, at 8 [noting that the purpose of the threshold was to … the Town Law § 209-q. The legislative history of L 1974, ch 512, which amended Town Law § 209-q (13) to add the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2009-2Viewing Your GASB Report – Governmental Accounting Standards Board
… No. 68 . Sign in to Retirement Online. From Account Homepage, click Access Billing Dashboard button. After …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/retirement/employers/gasb/viewing-your-gasb-reportOpinion 91-19
… that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. FIRE DISTRICTS -- Powers and Duties (authority to make gift to fire company); (authority to accept gift of firefighting … Whether the fire district may give to the fire company the cash equivalent of the value of the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-19Opinion 90-52
… that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. TOWN BOARD -- Powers and Duties (publication of minutes of … (publication of State Comptroller's report of examination) TOWN CLERK -- Powers and Duties (required contents of minutes) TOWN SUPERVISOR -- Powers and Duties (publication of minutes …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-52Opinion 2007-4
… real property in a separate fund to be used over the course of several fiscal years to fund annual appropriations … real property in a separate fund to be used over the course of several fiscal years to finance appropriations for … compare General Municipal Law §6-o, solid waste management facility reserve fund). Moreover, a village may …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2007-4Opinion 2008-3
… NYS2d 918, mod on other grnds 88 AD2d 780, 451 NYS2d 523, app dsmd 58 NY2d 601, 458 NYS2d 1025, app dsmd 58 NY2d 687, 458 NYS2d 543, rearg den 58 NY2d 824, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2008-3Research Vendor Information
… or guarantee their accuracy. Financial and Organizational Capacity Legal/Regulatory Authority to Do Business Integrity …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-vendors/vendrep/research-vendor-informationOpinion 88-59
… justice, it shall also have an acting justice who shall serve when requested by the village justice or in the absence or inability of the village justice to serve." [Emphasis added] Although your inquiry does not … within a fund or by borrowing pursuant to the Local Finance Law (Village Law, §5-520[4]). In this regard, the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-59Opinion 92-22
… generally involves representations in administrative or judicial proceedings brought for the purpose of reducing the … self-interest, partiality or economic impropriety (see e.g. Zagoreos v Conklin , 109 AD2d 281, 491 NYS2d 358; Matter …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-22Opinion 92-32
… historical society) GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, §§119-aa, 119-dd; MUNICIPAL HOME RULE LAW, §10(1)(i): A town may purchase … historic preservation efforts (General Municipal Law, §119-dd[3]). Further, a town is authorized to sell historic buildings or structures pursuant to section 119-dd(4) which empowers town boards to: Designate, purchase, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-32Opinion 97-20
… bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. FOREIGN FIRE INSURANCE TAXES -- Particular Uses (remodeling and purchasing appliances for firehouse kitchen) INSURANCE LAW, §§9104, 9105: Unless otherwise provided by … fire department may determine to use foreign fire insurance tax moneys to make reasonable expenditures to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-97-20