NYC Mayor Releases $85 Billion Budget Plan For Fiscal Year 2018

NEW YORK, NY — NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio released his administration's $85 billion budget recommendations for Fiscal Year 2018 on Tuesday afternoon, amid what he called "deep uncertainty" about what kind of funding the city will receive from the federal government under President Donald Trump.

In particular, De Blasio wants to put millions of dollars toward additional NYPD officers and resources; extensive road repaving ("Pave, baby, pave!" the mayor said at his Tuesday press conference); public-housing roof repairs; and new school programs, personnel and infrastructure.

Here are some of the plan's more significant allocations:

• $10.4 million to install bullet-resistant window inserts in every NYPD patrol car
• $4.5 million toward community initiatives to reduce gun violence in NYC neighborhoods
• $317 million for new street safety reconstruction projects, street lighting and traffic signal improvements; $12 million for pavement safety markings; $690,000 for safety improvements to bike lanes; and $6.3 million to hire 100 school crossing guard supervisors and 200 school crossing guards (all part of the mayor's Vision Zero initiative)
• $495 million toward 38,487 new school seats in the K-12 system
• $16.4 million to provide better and faster internet service in NYC schools
• $147 million to repave 1,300 lane miles of NYC streets
• $329 million to bolster the city's fleet of trash collection vehicles
• $571 million to repair bridges across the city
• $1 billion to replace 729 roofs at NYCHA (public housing) buildings across the city
• $14.9 million to fund 22,800 slots in the School’s Out NYC Summer program
• $9 million to expand the Summer Youth Employment Program by 5,000 slots — a total of 65,000 slots
• $150 million to develop a campus and incubator space for bio-engineering research

Here at Patch, we're still wading through the plan, and will keep you posted on anything in particular that pops out. Sign up here to receive updates from Patch on the city budget and other local news in your NYC neighborhood.

Before the mayor's budget is written in stone, it will have to be reviewed and approved by the New York City Council. That process will end in late June.

Below is a summary of the mayor's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2018 (lasting from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018).

Below that, you'll find next year's proposed capital plan in full. And below that, you'll find the mayor's larger budgetary vision through the year 2021.

Images and documents via the NYC Mayor's Office