CITY BUDGET INFO

The FY 2007 City Budget Agreement.

In what the City Council declared an "historic agreement", the City’s FY 2007 operating budget totals $52.9 billion. The budget included funding to modestly expand universal pre-kindergarten and baselines several Council priorities, in an effort to protect those programs from future City budget cuts.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn made "ending the budget dance“ a prioroity this negotiation session.  Towards that end the city budget baselines several City Council projects and  initiatives that had previously been cut by the Mayor, knowing full well that the Council would bargain in earnest in order fully restore them.  The non-education budget priorities to benefit from baselining include public libraries, summer employment programs, and sanitation collection programs.

Mayor Bloomberg lauded the City Council for "their fiscal responsibility and prudence."

Within the overall city budget, funding for education is:

*    FY 07 Personal Service (wages, salaries and benefits): $4.39 billion.
*    FY 07 Other Than Personal Service: $2.16 billion.
*    The total city appropriation for education for FY 2007: $6.55 billion. 

Highlights of the education budget include:

* Convert 2,000 half-day Universal Pre-Kindergarten slots to full day using City tax-levy savings of $7 million by the increase in the state's reimbursement rate to fund the conversion

* $19,696,000  for Teacher's Choice

* $400,000 for Principal Leadership Center

* $1,340,000 for Attendance Improvement and Dropout Prevention

* $400,000 for The Young Women's Leadership Foundation

* $100,000 for Digital Empowerment for Middle Schools

* $200,000 for CFE to support its efforts to win additional state aid for NYC

* $500,000 for New Visions Public Schools to fund the work of nonprofit partner organizations at New Century High Schools that are slated to lose their start-up funding the coming school year

* $50,000 for Community Mayors to expand recreational therapy services for District 75 students

* $200,000 for the Peter Vallone Scholarship (FIT) to graduates of public and private NYC high schools enrolled in FIT

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