With the recent announcement that the County's sales tax exceeded
the anticipated budgeted amount for 2011 by more than $ 14 million, the Caucus reiterated its position using cash on hand was prudent and respectful of taxpayers» dollars.
Dynamic Programming is a system of «
budgeting in reverse» by totaling up all «fixed» expenses like rent, insurance, phone, etc. and deducting it from the dollar
amount of the next
anticipated paycheck.
Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the
amount provided in the state
budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the
anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state
budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.