Mitaynes, Simone, Gonzalez-Rojas, Gallagher, Shrestha, Septimo, Seawright, Aubry, De Los Santos,
Mamdani, Cunningham, Reyes, Forrest
MLTSPNSR
Amd §1269-b, Pub Auth L
Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to publish certain information pertaining to capital project data for projects that are committed for construction on the capital program dashboard maintained by the authority on the authority's website; requires sources of funding to be specified.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A4043
SPONSOR: Carroll TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
metropolitan transportation authority to publish certain information
pertaining to capital project data for projects that are committed for
construction on the capital program dashboard
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Requires the metropolitan transit authority to include additional infor-
mation regarding capital projects on the "Capital Program Dashboard" on
the authority's website.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends section 1269-b of the public authorities law to add the
following new requirements for the MTA's Capital Program Dashboard for
each project: a listing of all contract numbers, vendors, and contrac-
tors; all sources of funding for the project; and coding regarding
whether the project is related to accessibility or resiliency. Section 1
also provides definitions for fund sources, accessibility, and resilien-
cy for purposes of the legislation and clarifies plain language require-
ments for the dashboard.
JUSTIFICATION:
While there have been increased efforts by the MTA to expand transparen-
cy on how they are allocating funds in their operating and capital budg-
ets, it is still not enough. The MTA provides a wealth of information on
capital projects, contractors, and spending, but it is scattered through
dozens of documents (often PDFs), making it difficult for the public to
connect the dots to see for themselves how their taxpayer and fare
dollars are being spent. The capital dashboard is currently the MTA's
central repository for capital project information, and can be improved
with more complete data about projects, including their finances.
This legislation mandates that the MTA post a listing of all contract
numbers, vendors, and contractors associated with the project, all
sources of funding for projects, and coding regarding whether the
project is related to accessibility or sustainability. In addition, in
the bill accessibility projects are specified as regarding elevators,
escalators, or compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act,
resiliency is defined by the MTA in its twenty-year needs assessments
and definitions must be provided in the data dictionary.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4043
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 9, 2023
___________
Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
metropolitan transportation authority to publish certain information
pertaining to capital project data for projects that are committed for
construction on the capital program dashboard
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraphs (vii) and (viii) and the closing paragraph of
2 paragraph (d) of subdivision 2-a of section 1269-b of the public author-
3 ities law, as added by section 1 of part LLL of chapter 58 of the laws
4 of 2022, is amended and three new subparagraphs (ix), (x), (xi) and an
5 undesignated paragraph are added to read as follows:
6 (vii) budget information including the original budget at the time of
7 project commitment when scope and budget are defined, all amendments,
8 the current budget and planned annual allocations; [and]
9 (viii) a schedule for project delivery including original, amended and
10 current start and completion dates as projects develop at each phase[.];
11 (ix) a listing of all contract numbers, vendors, and contractors asso-
12 ciated with the project;
13 (x) all sources of funding for the project; and
14 (xi) coding regarding whether the project is related to accessibility
15 or resiliency.
16 For the purposes of this paragraph, sources of funding shall be speci-
17 fied as from the state of New York, the federal government, the city of
18 New York, or any other relevant source. Funding from the state of New
19 York shall further specify whether it has been obtained from the central
20 business district tolling lockbox as established by section five hundred
21 fifty-three-j of this chapter or any successor fund or account provided
22 by law. Accessibility shall mean projects regarding elevators, escala-
23 tors or other projects related to compliance with the federal Americans
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04144-01-3
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1 with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, and corresponding guidelines.
2 Resiliency shall have the same meaning as defined by the authority in
3 its twenty-year needs assessment released in two thousand twenty-three
4 as required by subdivision c of section twelve hundred sixty-nine-c of
5 this title.
6 The status of projects shall be provided and state the current phase
7 of the project, such as planning, design, construction or completion,
8 and shall state how far the project has progressed as measured in
9 percentage by expenditure. The dashboard shall measure progress based on
10 original budgets at the time of project commitment when scope and budget
11 are defined. At a minimum, all changes to planned budgets of greater
12 than ten percent, significant project scope or a three month or more
13 change in schedule shall be provided in narrative form and describe the
14 reason for each change or amendment. The dashboard shall include a glos-
15 sary or data dictionary which contains plain language descriptions of
16 the data, including individual project data, and any other information
17 provided on the dashboard. The authority shall provide a definition of
18 resiliency in the glossary or data dictionary. The dashboard shall be
19 updated, at a minimum, on a quarterly basis, and all data fields avail-
20 able on the dashboard shall be made available for download on the
21 authority's website in a single tabular data file in a common, machine
22 readable format. Capital dashboard data shall also be made available on
23 the data.ny.gov website or such other successor website maintained by,
24 or on behalf of, the state, as deemed appropriate by the New York state
25 office of information technology services under executive order number
26 ninety-five of two thousand thirteen, or any successor agency or order.
27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
