The Preliminary Mayor’s Management Report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 is out and there were both highs and lows regarding how city agencies performed during the first four months of the fiscal year.
The report, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg released on Friday, February 12, is required by the New York City Charter in order to provide a snapshot of how the city is performing. This preliminary report covered July 2009 through October 2009.
“The preliminary results show that we can continue to maintain and improve critical services, despite seven rounds of expense cuts to keep the city’s budget balanced in the face of the national recession,” Bloomberg said.
One of the highlights of the report was the continued decrease in violent crime throughout the city. Major felony crime decreased 9 percent, from 41,687 during the first four months of FY 2009 to 37,932 in the same period of FY 2010. Overall, six felony crime categories decreased with only felonious assault seeing a spike during the reporting period.
Some of the other highlights of the report included record high street cleaning ratings with 96 percent acceptably clean, major felony crime in the city’s public schools decreased 27 percent, and a record number of Minority and Women-Owned Businesses received certification.
However, some areas did not fare as well in terms of results. Reports of child abuse and neglect in foster care increased, preliminary average class size increased and construction activity continued to decline with job filings with the Department of Buildings plummeting by 14.3 percent.
In addition, the average time it took the Department of Transportation to fill a pothole increased from 2.8 days to 5.9 days – largely due to the number of requests, which nearly doubled during that time.
“We will continue to use the extensive set of transparency tools we’ve developed over the last eight years to let the public see how their government is performing and hold city agencies accountable for delivering results,” Bloomberg said.
People can keep track of trends and view a full report of the Fiscal 2010 Preliminary Mayor’s Management Report by using the array of transparency and accountability tools that are part of the NYCStat system, which monitors essential data, reports and statistics related to city services, found on www.nyc.gov.
