New York City Mayor's Office of Management and Budget

The New York City Mayor's Office of Management and Budget (OMB or MOMB), formerly New York City Office of Management and Budget, is the New York City government's chief financial agency, organized as part of the New York City Mayor's office. OMB staff, under the direction of the Mayor and the Budget Director, assemble and oversee the expense, revenue, and capital budgets for the city. The City of New York funds the activities of approximately 70 agencies with more than 300,000 full-time and full-time equivalent employees, for a Fiscal Year 2018 total of $86 billion.[1]

Office of Management and Budget
Agency overview
JurisdictionNew York City
Headquarters255 Greenwich St.,
New York, NY 10007
Employees350
Agency executive
  • Melanie Hartzog, Budget Director
Websitenyc.gov/omb

OMB evaluates the cost-effectiveness of city services and proposals, both from the agencies and New York City Council. OMB employs economists to provide forecasts on city, state, nation, and world economies. OMB also manages the city's capital financing programs through the issuing of bonds, and conducts legal reviews of capital projects financed with bond proceeds.[1]

OMB is the nation’s fourth-largest taxing authority,[2] as New York City has the largest municipal budget in the United States at $86 billion a year.[3] The city employs 325,000 people, spends about $21 billion to educate more than 1.1 million students (the largest public school system in the United States), levies $27 billion in taxes, and receives $14 billion from the state and federal governments.

History

By 1788, the Treasurer of the City prepared the budget, and in 1830 this duty fell to the Comptroller.[4] In 1853, a Board of Commissioners was established comprising the Mayor, the Comptroller and the Presidents of the Board of Alderman and the Board of Assistants, to pass on the appropriations of the Alms House Department and the Board of Education before such appropriations should be submitted to the Board of Supervisors. This lasted until 1871, when the Board of Estimate and Apportionment was established and charged with the duty of apportioning the revenue resulting from tax assessments on property valuation.[5]

In 1881, the Commissioners of Accounts prepared an annual statement of expenditures of all departments for use in budgeting. In 1914, a separate budget and efficiency staff was set up in the Office of the Commissioners of Accounts. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment also set up three agencies to assist in the preparation of the budget - the Bureau of Standards (later the Bureau of Personnel Service), the Bureau of Contract Supervision, and the Committee on Education. All of these agencies were abolished in 1918 and the Board of Estimate and Apportionment's examiners, who were transferred to the secretary's office at that time, later became the nucleus of the Bureau of the Budget. In 1924, the position of Director of Budget was created as part of the Mayor's Office by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment.[6] In 1933 The Bureau of the Budget was established by Local Law 11 with the Director of the Budget at its head.[6][7][8]

In 1976, the Bureau was renamed the Office of Management and Budget, and was granted its current responsibility for assisting the Mayor in developing and implementing the City's budget, and for advising the Mayor on policy affecting the City's fiscal stability and the effectiveness of City services.

Budget Director

The agency is headed by a commissioner-level appointment, known as the Budget Director, responsible for drafting the city's budget, turning the Mayor's policy goals into a fiscally-balanced budget.[9][1] The Budget Director also serves ex officio on various boards, including the New York City Municipal Water Authority, which issues bonds for the capital plan of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection,[10] the New York City Transitional Finance Authority, and TSASC, Inc., a local development corporation whose debt is secured by tobacco settlement revenues.[11] Both issue bonds to finance the city’s capital plan.[12] The current Budget Director is Melanie Hartzog.[13]

Budget Directors
NameYears in Office
Abraham Beame[14]1952-1961
Frederick O'R. Hayes1966–1970
Edward K. Hamilton[15][16]1970-1971
David Grossman1971–1974
Melvin Lechner[17]1974-1976
Peter C. Goldmark Jr.[18]1976-1977
James Brigham[19][20]1978-1981
Alair Townshend[19]1981-1985
Paul Dickstein[21]1985-1988
Stanley Grayson[22]1988-1990
Philip R. Michael[23]1990-1993
Carol O'Cleireacain[23][24][2]1993
Abraham Lackman[25][9][26][27]1994-1995
Marc Shaw[27][9][28]1995
Joe Lhota[9][29]1995-2001
Mark N. Page[30][31][12]2002-2014
Dean Fuleihan[32][13]2014-2017
Melanie Hartzog[13]2018-2020
Jacques Jiha[33]2020-Present

Notable former employees

See also

References
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  2. "Carol O'Cleireacain". Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  3. OMB (July 27, 2017). "The City of New York Adopted Budget: Expense, Revenue, Contract" (PDF).
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  21. Martin, Douglas (October 22, 2013). "Paul Dickstein, Koch's Budget Chief in New York City, Dies at 70" – via NYTimes.com.
  22. Levine, Robert (December 9, 1988). "Deputy Mayor for Finance To Leave New York City Job". The New York Times.
  23. "BUDGET DIRECTOR OF NEW YORK CITY IS FORCED TO QUIT". The New York Times. August 20, 1993. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
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  25. "Giuliani Names Albany Adviser As Budget Chief". The New York Times. December 9, 1993. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
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  27. "Budget Chief For Giuliani Joins M.T.A." The New York Times. November 28, 1995. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  28. "Marc V. Shaw – The City University of New York". www2.cuny.edu. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  29. "Governor Cuomo Announces Appointment of Joseph Lhota as Chairman of MTA". June 21, 2017. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  30. "Candidate Profile: Mark Page - Control Board Watch". August 5, 2016. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  31. "Mark Page: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  32. "Bill de Basio Appoints Dean Fuleihan Budget Director". December 18, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  33. "De Blasio Names New Budget Director". Retrieved January 4, 2018.
  34. "Staff – Institute for State and Local Governance". Retrieved January 25, 2019.
  35. Khurshid, Samar. "2021 Comptroller Race Now Features Two City Council Members". Gotham Gazette. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
  36. "Anthony E. Shorris". Transportation Experts Blog. Archived from the original on September 3, 2012. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
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