Here are this year’s Forms 106. They are much longer than years past so we are hoping to learn more about the budget.
2010 Forms 106 – Line Item Detail
Updated Citywide Brainstorm Spreadsheet – Excel
Updated Citywide Brainstorm Spreadsheet – PDF
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Forms 106 – Line Item Detail
Tuesday, March 9th, 20102010 City Budget in Excel Format
Monday, March 8th, 2010For anyone interested in taking a look at the budget in a spreadsheet format, click here for the 1.4 MB file.
Budget Panel Gets WTNH Coverage
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Check out this Channel 8 piece. Nice work on the interview Tim!
Blue Ribbon Budget Panel Reports to BOA
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009The final recommendations to the New Haven Board of Aldermen from the Blue Ribbon Citizen’s Panel on the Budget is ready. Its a worthwhile read. Thanks to all the panelists and city staff that contributed to its construction.
Citizens Budget Commission – NYC
Saturday, May 16th, 2009The NYC Citizens Budget Commission provides an interesting website reviewing NYC finances. Their mission: “The Citizens Budget Commission is a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic organization devoted to influencing constructive change in the finances and services of New York City and New York State government.” Check out their Myth of Uncontrollables, which directly confronts the notion of “its all fixed costs,” the mantra of the New Haven BOA and Administration.
Annotated Budget Explanations (Forms 106)
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Here are some of the forms 106 which purportedly explain the line items in the budget. I have added some comments and highlighted some questions. There are 248 pages thus far and the file is 11MB, have fun.
City Budget in Excel
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Here is the City Budget, FY 09-10 Budget in Excel Format.
You might also have interest in checking out our source document page.
Mayor On Financial Problems
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008Although this letter from the Mayor focuses on the national financial mess, New Haven’s financial problems have been years in the making. This was coming to a head without the latest national pressures. What is happening, is now, these issues can no longer be managed with one time revenue infusions from selling City assets, or other financial engineering. We have written elsewhere, and provided testimony, that the budget is mostly personnel related. That is why the Mayor’s letter focuses on union renegotiations. Tweed, Shubert, the trolley to nowhere, and other major ticket items still pale in comparison to the major driver – personnel cost. This is simply a fact of the city budget. The fact that the city employees and the citizens still do not understand this is a failure of leadership on this issue. We need transparent government, multi-year financial projections to make sound decisions, and accountability at all levels of city government and city spending if we want to start digging our way slowly out of this hole. I am hopeful that the current administration will take the necessary steps to greater transparency, community involvement, and encourage honest and rigorous discourse on the financial state of this City so we can begin coming together to right this ship. Have some ideas? Send them our way.
Trolley Closed
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008See the WTNH announcement about the trolley to nowhere closing down. This trolley cost about $350,000 per year with little to no ridership. NHCAN suggested this as a place to cut in order to save money and avoid other, more painful cuts. It looks like the city is listening. They also made, or tried to make a number of other suggestions NHCAN made:
proposed elimination of fair rent commission
tweed subsidy cuts two years in a row
shubert subsidy cuts
renegotiations with the unions
Grove Street Parking Subsidy cuts
Citizen input in the budget = Blue Ribbon Commission On The Budget
Jeffrey Kerekes Appointed to the Financial Review And Audit Commission
Small Business Initiative cuts.
