FY 2020 Enacted Budget Infographics
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$3 BILLION
- FY 2020 Enacted Budget provides an additional $500 million for clean water
- $2.5 billion Water Infrastructure Improvement Act
Congestion Costs:
- 113 million hours = time spent by commuters stuck in traffic
- $767 = average annual hit to commuters’ wallets
- $20 billion = annual cost of congestion on the metro area’s economy
Solution?
Central Business District Tolling
- Reduce congestion
- Raise $15 billion for the MTA to boost transit, cut reliance on vehicles
- New York State first in the nation to approve Congestion Pricing
Record Support for Education: $27.9 billion
- 42% increase since 2012
- $1+billion increase in FY 2020 Budget
70% of FY 2020 increase goes to high needs school
Counties get a boost:
- $3.7 billion = Cost of county Medicaid growth share covered by the State
- $160 million = new support by eliminating the Internet Tax Advantage
- $48 million = new support by ending the temporary tax exemption for Energy Service Companies
Financing - $25 Billion
- $15 billion: Central Business District Tolling
- $5 billion: Progressive Mansion Tax
- $5 billion: Eliminate Internet Tax Advantage
Restructure
- Modify MTA Board appointments
- Stop fare evasion
- Audit the MTA
- Assess capital needs
- 30-day review for comptroller contract approval
- Design build to speed project delivery
- Resolve the unilateral veto
- Ban bad contractors
BANNED SINGLE-USE PLASTIC BAGS
Cuts down on 23 billion plastic bags used by New Yorkers annually
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Reduce litter
Counties can opt-in to 5-cent paper bag fee
- 3 cents = support for the Environmental Protection Fund
- 2 cents = provide low-income communities with reusable bags
