Section 5-601.
Section 5-601. Criminal Justice Account. There shall be within the
general fund of the city a special accounting of the revenues and
expenditures included in the safe streets-safe city omnibus criminal
justice program. Such accounting shall be known as the "Criminal Justice
Account."
Section 5-602.
Section 5-602. Revenues. There is hereby established within this
general fund of the city, a special accounting of revenues, composed of
the following revenue sources, dedicated for the purposes identified in
the safe streets-safe city omnibus criminal justice program:
1. a designated portion of the real property tax (to the extent not
required for debt service);
2. the special anti-crime lottery within the city established and
operated by the New York state division of the lottery;
3. the city personal income tax surcharge, to the extent required to
be credited to the criminal justice account by subdivision (d) of
section 11-1704 of the code; and
4. such other sources as may be credited or transferred to the
criminal justice account.
Section 5-603.
Section 5-603. Dedication. a. Except as otherwise provided in this
chapter, the revenues identified pursuant to section 5-602 of this
chapter shall be used for criminal justice purposes, including hiring of
police officers, correction officers, probation officers, attorneys and
ancillary personnel; funding public safety, education, youth services
and community anti-crime programs; increasing capacity in the correction
area; and engaging in such other efforts as are designed to protect
public safety and deter crime in the city.
b. There shall be a separate accounting by the city within the general
fund of the proceeds of the anti-crime lottery established and operated
within the city by the New York state division of the lottery. Such
proceeds shall be used exclusively for educational programs, including,
but not limited to, increased security in elementary schools, special
education sites and after school activities; increasing the number of
community schools; providing academic and non-academic evening school
activities for high school students; providing support services to
students at risk of dropping out of school; strengthening basic skills
of children in kindergarten through fourth grade; and providing
additional after school educational opportunities in the municipal
library system.
Section 5-604.
Section 5-604. Expenditures. a. No monies included in the revenue
sources established pursuant to section 5-602 shall be available for
appropriation unless a schedule for the proposed uses of the total
projected amount of such revenue sources shall be set forth as a
supporting schedule to the preliminary budget required to be presented
by the mayor pursuant to charter section two hundred thirty-six, and as
a supporting schedule to the executive budget required to be presented
by the mayor pursuant to charter section two hundred fifty. Such
schedule shall indicate each agency and unit of appropriation to which
amounts are proposed to be appropriated, and shall indicate by unit of
appropriation the intended uses of such amounts and the objectives to be
met.
b. The monies so available for appropriation shall be spent only in
accordance with applicable state law and charter sections two hundred
fifty-four, two hundred fifty-five, and two hundred fifty-six, or in
accordance with charter sections one hundred seven or two hundred
sixteen. If any source within the account accrues revenues in excess of
the amount projected in the adopted budget to be received from such
source, such excess revenues may not be expended except in accordance
with such charter sections, and for the purpose of section one hundred
seven of the charter shall be deemed new revenues pursuant to
subdivision e of section one hundred seven of the charter.
Section 5-605.
Section 5-605. Reporting requirements. The director of the office of
management and budget, in consultation with the police commissioner and
the heads of appropriate city agencies, shall make a year-end annual
report specifying the actual year end spending for each of the purposes
identified in the schedule required by subdivision a of section 5-604,
updated to reflect changes, if any, made at adoption, to the
chairpersons of the finance and public safety committees of the council
on the allocation of funds from the criminal justice account and the
status of implementation of the safe streets-safe city omnibus criminal
justice program. Such report shall include a schedule of new hires for
all police forces and criminal justice agencies; a status report on
civilianization and workload sharing efforts of the police departments;
the level of patrol strength in all borough commands of the city; status
of the implementation and operation of youth, employment and senior
citizen programs; and the status of programs funded through the
education portion of the criminal justice account.