File #: Int 1364-2025    Version: * Name: Monthly reporting by the director of management and budget on the status of all federal funding.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation
On agenda: 8/14/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to monthly reporting by the director of management and budget on the status of all federal funding
Sponsors: Lincoln Restler, Justin L. Brannan
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill is to amend the administrative code to require the director of management and budget to submit to the Mayor, the Speaker of the Council, and the chair of the relevant committee a report pursuant a list of enumerated items in the statute regarding the status of federal funding to the City, City agencies, and not-for-profit corporations. The bill requires the director to submit a report by the 25th day of each month containing the required information for each previous month. Currently, this office does not publish or submit any up-to-date reports regarding all federal funding streams awarded-to, and used by, the City. The report would provide council members, and their constituents, with a comprehensive picture of the role federal funding plays in the City, with the purpose of allowing them to prepare for any potential changes to federal funding streams.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1364, 2. Int. No. 1364, 3. August 14, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1364

 

By Council Members Restler and Brannan

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to monthly reporting by the director of management and budget on the status of all federal funding

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 4 of title 5 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 5-511 to read as follows:

§ 5-511 Monthly status report on federal funding. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section the following terms have the following meanings:

Federal funding. The term “federal funding” means any funds awarded by grant or otherwise originating from the federal government and transferred to the city, a city agency, or a provider of city services or not-for-profit organization with whom the city has contracted to provide services.

Not-for-profit organization. The term “not-for-profit organization” means any corporation defined by article 1 of chapter 35 of the consolidated laws of New York, with whom the city contracts to provide services that provides such services wholly or in-part through federal funding.

Section 3 requirement. The term “section 3 requirement” means any funding awarded or received subject to the provisions of part 75 of subtitle A of title 24 of the code of federal regulations.

Flow through funds. The term “flow through funds” means any funding that originates by grant or otherwise from the federal government awarded to the state and subsequently disbursed to the city, city agencies, or not-for-profits in contract with the city.

b. No later than November 25, 2025, and monthly thereafter, the director of management and budget shall submit to the mayor, the speaker of the council, and chair of the governmental operations committee, in a machine readable format, a report on the status of all federal funding awarded, received, expected, or otherwise provided to the city for the prior month. The report shall include, but not be limited to, a table in which each row includes the following information and any additional information the director deems appropriate, set forth in separate columns:

1. The name of the federal source agency granting the federal funding;

2. The name of the federal funding source;

3. The dollar value of the relevant federal funding;

4. The city agency to whom the federal funding was awarded;

5. If the federal funding was awarded to the city and subsequently awarded by the city to a not-for-profit organization to execute the grant’s purpose, the name of such not-for-profit organization;

                     6. The unit of appropriation in the city budget pursuant to the grant;

                     7. The programmatic area to which the federal funding is directed; 

8. Whether the agency or not-for-profit organization has already spent the awarded federal funding;

9. Whether an agency or not-for-profit organization has been reimbursed for already-spent federal funding; and

10. Whether any such federal funding is subject to and in compliance with a section 3 requirement, and if so the total number of working hours attributable to meeting the section 3 requirements.

c. Where any flow through funds exist, the report shall include and set out such federal funding in the same manner as outlined in subdivision b.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law. 

 

 

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08/08/2025 [3:00 pm]