It's Your Money NYC: Hold Your Government Accountable

Funding for '09

$ 12,014,000

Employees

170

Who funds this program?

City

6,402,000 (53%)

State

719,000 (6%)

Federal 4,

893,000 (41%)

How is the money spent?

Salaries

10,210,000 (85%)

Supplies

114,000 (Less than 1%)

Property & Equipment

182,000 (2%)

Contracted Services

913,000 (8%)

Other and Fixed Charges

604,000 (5%)

What your money funds:

This program funds the prevention of environmentally and occupational related diseases. Environmental diseases are illnesses caused by exposure to disease-causing agents in the environment, usually non-infectious. Occupational related illness is caused by the work environment.

1. Areas heavily monitored are adult heavy metal poisoning, demolition workers' and bridge workers' health, occupational fatalities, cancer incidence, asthma incidence, studies.
2. The program provides consultation and technical assistance to City agencies, employers, unions, community organizations and others on such issues as: health effects of environmental and occupational exposures, development of protocols for medical evaluation and screening, and hazard control. They also regularly participates in numerous community and occupational health forums throughout the city, such as the Greenpoint/Williamsburg Environmental Benefits Program and the Mt. Sinai Occupational Health Clinic Advisory Board