US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    §  250.  The  budget  message.  The budget message, which shall not be
  deemed a part of the budget, shall include:
    1. An explanation, in summary terms, of the major programs,  projects,
  emphases  and  objectives of the budget, the general fiscal and economic
  condition of the city,  the  tax  and  fiscal  base  of  the  city,  and
  intergovernmental fiscal relations.
    2.   Itemized  information  and  supporting  schedules  of  positions,
  salaries and other than personal service expenses, anticipated  for  the
  ensuing fiscal year.
    3.  Recommendations  for any changes in the revenue sources and fiscal
  operations of the city, including intergovernmental revenue  and  fiscal
  arrangements.
    4.  An  itemized  statement  of  the  actual revenues and receipts and
  accruals of the general fund and of all other revenue sources, including
  state and federal aid and revenues for specified purposes, for  each  of
  the  four  preceding fiscal years, and for the first eight months of the
  current fiscal year, and the estimated amount  of  such  items  for  the
  balance  of the current fiscal year, and for the ensuing fiscal year. In
  preparing such information the mayor shall consult with the comptroller.
    5. A listing of the sources and amounts  of  all  revenues  and  other
  monies  of  a nonrecurring nature that are being proposed to be utilized
  during the ensuing fiscal year and that are not expected to be available
  or used in subsequent fiscal years.
    6. An update of the four-year financial plan, as set forth in  section
  two  hundred  fifty-eight  of  this  chapter,  containing,  (a) for each
  agency, for all existing programs, forecasts  of  expenditures  for  the
  ensuing  fiscal  year  and the succeeding three fiscal years at existing
  levels of service; (b) forecasts of  revenue  by  source  from  existing
  sources  of revenue for the ensuing fiscal year and the succeeding three
  fiscal years; and (c) for each new or expanded program, an indication of
  when such program is projected to be fully implemented and a forecast of
  the annual recurring costs for such program or program  expansion  after
  it is fully implemented.
    7.  For  each  agency, a comparison of the proposed appropriations for
  the ensuing fiscal year with (i) the amounts appropriated in the current
  expense budget as originally adopted and as modified through  the  first
  eight  months  of  the  current  fiscal  year, (ii) the amounts actually
  expended in the previous fiscal year  and  (iii)  the  amounts  actually
  expended  through  the first eight months of the current fiscal year and
  the estimated expenditures for the balance of the current fiscal year.
    8. For each agency that has local service districts  within  community
  districts  and  boroughs, a statement of proposed direct expenditures in
  each service district for each unit of appropriation and a statement  of
  the  basis  for  the  allocation of direct expenditures to local service
  districts of each such agency.
    9. An explanation  of  principal  changes  in  performance  goals  and
  indicators  from  the  date  of submission of the preliminary management
  report to the submission of the proposed executive budget.
    10. An itemized statement, covering the city's entire  capital  plant,
  except for those portions of the capital plant which have been committed
  to  the  care  and  control  of  the  board  of education or officers or
  employees thereof, by agency and project type and, within project  type,
  by  personal  services  and other than personal services, of the amounts
  appropriated for maintenance of such capital plant in the  previous  and
  current  fiscal  years as originally adopted and as modified through the
  first eight months of the  current  fiscal  year,  and  of  the  amounts
  actually  expended  for such maintenance in the previous fiscal year and
  through the first eight months  of  the  current  fiscal  year  and  the

  amounts  estimated to be expended for such purpose during the balance of
  the current fiscal year; and, for each agency,  an  explanation  of  the
  substantive  differences,  if any, between the amounts actually expended
  for  such  maintenance  in  the  previous fiscal year or projected to be
  expended for such purpose in the current fiscal  year  and  the  amounts
  originally appropriated for such purpose for such years.
    11. A presentation of the maintenance activities proposed by the mayor
  to be completed during the ensuing fiscal year for all major portions of
  the capital plant, as such terms are defined in subdivision a of section
  eleven  hundred  ten-a,  categorized  by  agency  and  project  type; an
  explanation of the differences, if any, between such proposed activities
  and the activities scheduled to be undertaken during  such  fiscal  year
  pursuant  to  subdivision  c  of  such  section;  an  explanation of the
  differences, if  any,  between  the  proposed  appropriations  for  such
  activities  and  the  estimates  of  the  amounts submitted, pursuant to
  subdivision f of such section, as necessary to maintain such portions of
  the  capital  plant;  and  a  presentation  and   explanation   of   the
  differences,  if  any,  between the maintenance activities for all major
  portions of the capital plant proposed  by  the  mayor,  in  the  budget
  message for the previous fiscal year, to be completed during such fiscal
  year and the activities actually completed during such fiscal year.
    12.   A  statement  of  the  extent  to  which  the  executive  budget
  incorporates the revisions to the preliminary budget  suggested  by  the
  borough  presidents,  in  accordance  with  subdivision a of section two
  hundred forty-five and the reasons why  any  other  suggested  revisions
  were not incorporated in the executive budget.
    13.  A  statement  of  the  modifications,  if  any,  which  the mayor
  recommends that the council make in the appropriations submitted by  the
  borough  presidents pursuant to sections one hundred two and two hundred
  eleven.
    14. A statement of any substantive  changes  in  the  methodology  and
  assumptions  used  to determine the revenue estimates presented pursuant
  to subdivisions four, five and six of this section from the  methodology
  and assumptions presented in the preliminary budget.
    15. A statement of the implications for the orderly development of the
  city,  its  community  districts  and  boroughs  of the capital projects
  included in or contemplated by the capital budget and program.
    16. A certificate  setting  forth  the  maximum  amount  of  debt  and
  reserves  which,  in the mayor's opinion, the city may soundly incur for
  capital projects during the ensuing fiscal year and during each  of  the
  following  three  fiscal years, and the maximum amount of appropriations
  and expenditures for capital projects which the city, given such maximum
  amount of debt and reserves, may soundly make during  each  such  fiscal
  year.