Summary of the Preliminary Mayor's Management Report in PDF format
MAYOR GIULIANI RELEASES THE PRELIMINARY
MAYOR'S MANAGEMENT REPORT (MMR) FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998
--Improvements in City Services Continue--
--City is Safer and Cleaner Than in Decades--
--Welfare Rolls are Down More Than 350,000--
--City's Economy Shows Record Improvement--
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani today released the preliminary Mayor's Management Report (MMR) for Fiscal Year 1998, which covers the period July 1, 1997 through October 31, 1997, and for selected programs, through December and January 1998. The Report, which is published twice a year, provides New Yorkers with an objective report card on how the city is being managed and how City services are being delivered.
"This Report describes the dramatic changes that New Yorkers experience every day," said Mayor Giuliani. "The numbers in this report tell the story of how we have reversed trends that were previously thought irreversible, how we have restored safety and order, created a robust and thriving business environment, pared welfare rolls, and improved the efficiency and delivery of City services. Here you will find a detailed accounting of the changes you see on the street, at work, and in school. These changes have already been called historic and unprecedented. But as this report shows, we are not resting on our laurels. The initiatives and improvements you read about here show that our progress continues to accelerate, and that every day New York City is becoming a better place to live, raise a family, do business, and visit."
Among the Report's highlights:
- New York City is the safest of the nation's 25 largest cities;
- Murder in New York City has reached a 31 year low;
- Calendar 1997 saw the lowest number of major crimes of any year prior to calendar 1968, when modern reporting methods were instituted;
- Calendar 1997 saw the fewest civilian fire fatalities since 1959;
- The number of public assistance recipients has decreased by more than 350,000 since March 1995, the lowest level in 30 years;
- Calendar 1997 saw the highest level of residential recycling in the history of the City's Recycling Program;
- The last six months of calendar 1997 saw the highest street cleanliness ratings ever;
- 94% of the city's parks were rated acceptably clean;
- Private carting rates have fallen by more than 40%, saving city businesses more than $400 million;
- Private sector employment has increased by 185,000 jobs compared to December 1993;
- Fortune magazine named New York City as the most improved city for businesses in 1997;
- New tuberculosis cases have decreased by more than 41% since 1994.
PUBLIC SAFETY
New York City's historic decrease in crime continues, including a reduction of 40% in FBI index crimes, and 60% in murder, from January to June 1993, compared to the same period in 1997. These reductions compare to much more modest decreases nationally of 14% in index crimes and 31% in murder. Full year Police Department statistics demonstrate a decline of 44% from calendar 1993 to 1997. The same period saw shooting incidents decline by 62.5%.
The City's domestic violence initiative continues to provide significant results, with family related arrests increasing by 43% and arrests for violating Orders of Protection increasing by 59%, when July through October 1994 is compared with the same period in 1997.
The merger of the Emergency Medical Service and the Fire Department improved public safety. In the first four months of Fiscal 1998, ambulance response time to life threatening emergencies was 8 minutes and 17 seconds, compared with 8 minutes and 45 seconds during the same months of Fiscal 1995, before the merger was accomplished. When the performance of five companies trained to respond to medical emergencies is included, combined response time is now down to 7 minutes, 1 second.
CLEANLINESS OF STREETS AND PARKS
During the last six months of 1997, New York City's streets received an average cleanliness rating of 84% acceptable, the highest rating of any six-month period in the history of City cleanliness ratings. All 59 Sanitation Districts were rated clean during this period. In December 1997, 87.4% of City streets were rated acceptably clean, the highest monthly rating ever recorded. Since July 1996, none of the City's 227 Sanitation Sections has been rated dirty.
The City's parks also have reached new levels of maintenance and upkeep. Cleanliness was rated 94% acceptable for July through October 1997. Overall conditions were rated 74% acceptable for that period, up from 56% the previous year. These were the highest scores achieved since the current rating system was introduced in 1992. In the first four months of FY 98, an all-time high of 81% of playground equipment was rated acceptable, up from 39% in the same period in 1994. Graffiti-vulnerable sites were rated 96% acceptable, maintaining progress from a low of 73% in the summer of 1993.
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
New Tuberculosis cases in New York City declined by 41.5% from 1994 to 1997. New lead poisoning cases also decreased during the first four months 1997 by 38% when compared to the same period in 1994. New AIDS cases decreased by 28% from 1994 to 1997, and even more dramatically, deaths from HIV/AIDS declined from a peak of 7,102 in 1994 to 2,577 in 1997. This represents the lowest number since 1985. The Health and Hospitals Corporation has continued to reform the way it provides medical care, increasing primary care visits by 39% and reducing emergency room visits by 10% over the last five fiscal years.
The number of public assistance recipients fell by more than 350,000--a drop of over 30%-- from March 1995 to January 1998. This puts New York City at the lowest level of public assistance recipients in 30 years. Reported job placements for public assistance recipients have tripled since FY 1993. From FY 94 to FY 97, these recipients reported obtaining over 130,000 jobs.
In FY 97, the City completed 4,009 adoptions. This represents the largest number of adoptions ever completed by the City, and reflects sustained growth since 1991, when the City completed a total of 1,421 adoptions. Child support collections in the four-month period from July to October 1997 were 19% greater than in the same months of 1996, which was also a record year for child support collections. The City has boosted its bed capacity for victims of domestic violence by 45% from FY 94 to FY 98.
EDUCATION
During FY 97, the Board's 1995-1999 Capital Plan was significantly expanded, adding $717 million over three years to expand capacity in overcrowded school districts and meet the Board of Education's goal of providing 55,000 new seats by 2001. Between 1994 and 1997, the City provided 80,011 new student seats, as 68,572 students joined the system, as compared to the previous administration, when only 19,444 seats were added to accommodate 78,083 new students. The Administration has committed to funding $125 million per year to Project Read, designed to ensure that all elementary school students learn to read and write at grade level by the end of third grade. As of December 1997, Project Read reaches over 130,000 students, which represents about 50% of all students enrolled in grades 1 through 3. In FY 97 the Administration allocated $25 million a year for three fiscal years to Projects ARTS, a joint public/private initiative that will restore arts education throughout the City's schools, and which is already running in 438 of the City's schools. $150 million has been allocated for Project Smart Schools, under which a coalition of public and private sector groups will give over 100,000 students access to technology in the classroom. To date a total of 7,576 computers have been installed in 185 middle schools, equipping a total of 1,826 classrooms and 182 libraries. By early March 1998, over 13,500 computers will have been installed in over 3,500 classrooms. As a result of the Mayor's Anti-Drug Plan, the number of BEACON schools will be increased by 67 percent, from 41 current programs to 69 in FY 99.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
During the past four years, the City's economy has improved significantly. From December 1993 to December 1997, private sector employment increased by nearly 185,000 jobs. The growth rate in private sector employment is the greatest for any four year period since the New York State Bureau of Labor Statistics began compiling employment data in 1950.
Targeted initiatives have been implemented to eliminate the hidden "tax" imposed by organized crime. Reforms at the Fulton Fish Market have resulted in reducing prices 6.5% from 1995 - 1997, while increasing the volume of fish sold. The creation of the trade waste commission in 1996 ended organized crime's control of the private carting industry and reduced prices by 40% since April 1997, saving city businesses over $400 million.
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