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Articles by Tammy Gamerman
Can We Have Our Cake and Compost It Too? | CBCNY
CBC has highlighted the high cost—more than $1.7 billion annually—of residential municipal trash collection and disposal in New York City compared to that of other municipalities.1 In addition to the high fiscal costs, negative environmental impacts exist from the transportation of waste to distant landfills and from the landfills themselves. A strategy of interest to both fiscal watchdogs and environmentalists is to reduce the amount of waste.
REPORT CARD: New York State Executive Budget, Fiscal Year 2016-2017
These are midterm grades for the Governor’s Executive Budget; final grades will be given at the end of the annual budget process determined by the outcome of negotiations between the Governor and legislative leaders. The Executive Budget deserves an excellent grade for continued spending restraint and no tax increases. Total state-financed spending would increase less than 2 percent with agency spending held flat.
Fringe Benefits Pushed New York Education Spending Higher in 2013
Public elementary and secondary education is a $55 billion enterprise in New York, and for decades the state has been one of the nation’s top spenders. New U.S. Census data for 2013 shows this trend continues.
Economic Development Bigger in State Budget, But Benefits Unclear
Since 2011 New York leaders have restrained growth in the state’s operating budget; in contrast, the scale and scope of questionable economic development programs continue to be expanded significantly.
New York State School Aid: A Big Increase, Badly Allocated Among Districts
The fiscal year 2016 state budget enacted last week includes a 6.0 percent increase in annual formula-based aid to school districts from $21.8 billion to $23.1 billion. This is the third consecutive year in which the Governor and the legislature have busted the statutory growth cap they agreed upon in 2011. Under the cap, which is based on lagged annual personal income growth, school aid should have expanded $377 million; instead, it will grow $1.3 billion.
12 Things New Yorkers Should Know About Their Garbage
Print Share Expand Table of Contents Collecting and disposing of trash is an essential municipal service, and New Yorkers tend to take it for granted. But this seemingly invisible service is surprisingly expensive, and taxpayers should understand the reasons for its high cost. This policy brief presents 12 important facts relating to the high cost of trash removal in New York City. 1.
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