It's Your Money NYC: Hold Your Government Accountable

Funding for '09

$ 10,678,000

Employees

140

Who funds this program?

City

6,806,000 (64%)

Capital Funds

3,872,000 (36%)

How is the money spent?

Salaries

6,991,000 (65%)

Contracted Services

9,878,000 (35%)

What your money funds:

PlaNYC 2030 is partially funded through the Department of Parks and Recreation. This program is responsible for planning, overseeing and carrying out projects for the initiative.

1. Greenstreets: A Citywide program to convert paved, vacant traffic islands and medians into green spaces filled with shade trees, flowering trees, shrubs, and groundcover. The Greenstreets program aims to create 800 new sites by 2017, at a cost of $15 million. This will bring the total number of Greenstreet sites in the City to 3,000.
2. MillionTreesNYC: The goal of this program is to plant and protect one million new trees over a ten year period. The City of New York will plant 60% of these trees in parks and other public spaces. The other 40% will come from private organizations, homeowners, and community organizations.
3. Reforestation: The goal of this program is to plant nearly 2,000 acres of parkland at Fresh Kills Park in Staten Island, Cunningham Park in Queens, Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, Highbridge Park in Manhattan, and other parks across the City at a cost of $118 million.
4. Schoolyards to Playgrounds: The goal of this program is to open 290 schoolyards in underserved neighborhoods to serve as fulltime playgrounds for the surrounding community. Of these, 150 will be opened in or before 2010.