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Bronx City Council Discretionary Funding

05/12/2012 19:05:00 By Peter Milosheff, viewed 2,892 times.
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We are pleased to publish the Citizens Union’s Report on NYC Council Discretionary Funding. While the major findings of the report are echoed in the link below, we thought our readers might be particularly interested in the “who got what” for the Bronx Delegation in the City Council.

Below is a list for discretionary funding – capital and expense – for FY 2012. The ranking below is how they did in terms of the 51 members of the City Council.

 

District Full Name Rank
FY 2012		 Combined Capital & Expense Funds Capital Totals       
FY 2012		 Capital Funds Rank Individual Expense Totals                FY 2012 Expense Funds Rank
11 G. Oliver Koppel 15       $452,651 $5,893,000 15       $452,651      41
12 Larry Seabrook 49       $362,651 $2,610,000 49       $362,651      50
13 James Vacca 7       $732,659 $7,500,000 7       $732,659      12
14 Fernando Cabrera 42       $557,651 $3,255,000 42       $557,651      30
15 Joel Rivera 16       $998,651 $4,786,000 23       $998,651        5
16 Helen Foster 46       $362,651 $3,099,000 45       $362,651      51
17 Maria del Carmen Arroyo 6       $683,526 $7,896,000 6       $683,526      15
18 Annabel Palma 23       $857,651 $4,579,000 24       $857,651        8

Citizens Union also looked at funding in relation to socioeconomic status. Regarding Bronx, while Councilmember Maria del Carmen Arroyo has the 2nd lowest Median Income of council districts in NYC, and is near the top of the list in funding, Councilmember Foster’s district has the 2nd lower Median Income, and is near the bottom in funding.

Given the inequities in funding, Citizens Union provided a number of recommendations to make the discretionary funding process more equitable and objective, including using socioeconomic indicators as well as other objective measures to ensure that constituents in every council district are well served through the funding process.

The report can be accessed here and relevant charts can be view here.

 

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is a digital media student at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is covering Morrisania for the BronxInk.org. Ademo previously worked as a community organizer and activist. He is also the founder of OPride.com, a website that aggregates news about his home country of Ethiopia.