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The City of Buffalo Budget Fiscal Year 2008-2009

Author
Asiedu-Akrofi, Harvey
Abstract
The City asserts that it has the ability to: afford three successive property tax cuts”, thereby reducing the overall property tax rate on residential properties by nearly 12%; maintain an unprecedented unreserved fund balance of $105 million with $76 million undesignated; set aside $30 million in City surplus funds and up to $15 million in a separate capital reserve to ensure the City never again faces a fiscal crisis; move the City from a fiscal control period to an advisory one; benefit from two successive credit upgrades from Wall Street; and increase the margin for use from a low of 8% in 2005-06 to just over 25% projected for 2008-09.
Date Issued
2009-04-29Subject
Buffalo; Government; Budgets; Fact Sheet; PPG; Data/Demographics/History
Type
article