We want to thank Justin Brannan for actually attending a small community meeting

[Ralph Yozzo]

This is a message to Justin and the entire mailing lists. 

I'm speaking for myself only.  

We appreciate that you Justin are willing to attend small community meetings.  

I've been told these other candidates require money and a minimum number of people so it shows that you do really care about all the community. 

I promised to email the office. 

This is my request. 

Hold a hearing about the entire property tax system and the lack of transparency in assessments and in budgeting. This hearing would have to have some effect on the agencies and the budget. 

We need to bring to light the fact that our own city council people do not have proper transparency into the budget process and the budget details. 

We need to get explanations from the property tax assessors as to why you can hide renovations and call them demolitions? 

We need one place to see all budget transactions in detail.  No value can be greater than $100,000. The items have to be broken down. 

The items also have to be associated with names and addresses.  

The names and addresses have to be standardized and there has to be a proper primary key for each entity in the database. 

https://open.tidalforce.org/opendata/item/mwzb-yiwb/?parm1=&metaid=mwzb-yiwb&offset=0&pagesize=10&order=adopted_budget_amount+desc#

This is the New York City office of the management and budget transparency database on expenses sorted by adopted budget amount descending

How can there be entries in the $6 billion dollar range?  Here's one sample but you can page through pages and pages of this.  It appears that this is all payments to individuals. We really need a breakdown of all the payments going out and all the intertwined non-profits and follow up with the department of investigation over the nepotism and corruption charges against public housing non-profits. 

"The Department of Social Services (Agency 069), within the Medical Assistance - OTPS Unit Appropriation (104), reports a 2025 budget for Medical Assistance (Object Code 518, Object Class 50, SOCIAL SERVICES) under the MAP-MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM responsibility center (0534). The adopted budget is $5,818,411,470, while the current modified budget is $5,675,233,142, reflecting a decrease. The financial plan amount is $5,781,511,470, with no contracts under either the adopted or modified budgets, nor in the financial plan. The budget code (9564, MMIS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE) utilizes the 'Other Than Personal Service' indicator (O). The publication date was June 30, 2024."

We need the details on these enormous allocations.   Where are they? 

The socrata NYC open data is not very mobile friendly. 99.99% of the people use mobile phones.  Why are we creating open data for desktops when the majority of people use mobile phones. 

There should be a project to take money away from this independent budget office and spend it on real transparency tools especially in the office of comptroller which is really supposed to be doing this. 

See https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Expense-Budget/mwzb-yiwb/data_preview

Thanks

Ralph