Title: Budgeting
First published: 1992
Description: Memorandum briefing the Commissioners on public budgeting. It was a very brief memorandum requested by the Commission to help them with regard to issues, concerns and their responsibility in fullfilling their duty as members of the State Charter Commission, on the overall subject of public budgeting. Dr. Cipollina, who was one of two Research Directors on the State Charter Commission, had specific background and expertise with regard to public budgeting.*[*See following parenthetical note, which should be made into a footnote...: "Dr. Cipollina, who had been on the staff of the historic Charter Revision Commission of the City of New York, of 1987-1989, as an  Assistant Director of Research, who as staff under the supervision and direction of Research Director Frank Mauro, (as well as under the overall supervision of Executive Director Eric Lane, Esq., and the Chairman Richard Ravitch, and then Chairman F.A.O. Schwartz, Esq.,including the appointed members of the Charter Revision Commission et al,) that abolished the City of New York's Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and, as staff assisted  Director Mauro's work, assisted the Commission, which had to prepare revisions and codify new budgetary processes-- which had been researched and vetted in both public hearings and in a final form by the U.S. Department of Justice 's Office of Section 5  Pre-Clearence, then submitted to the electorate of the city of New York for final approval.  Dr. Cipollina had worked as an intern as an undergraduate in the city of New York's OMB, and then did his doctoral dissertation on the development of the city's budgetary process and on the three fiscal crises in New York City's history, for his Ph.D. in Political Science, with a third area in economic analysis at Brandeis University,1981. later, after he had finished his Ph.D., he had worked as a personnel department budget officer/human resources planner for Metro North. While  completing his research on his dissertation, "No Past and No Future: reform,budgets..." '81,Brandeis, Cipollina had the opportunity and good fortune to have worked with the internationally-known budgetary scholar and author, Dr. Aaron Wildavsky,Ph.D., when Wildavsky was first President of Russell Sage Foundation, and then further when Wildavsky took Cipollina with him when he did policy anaylysis on the estimation of natual gas and oil, for the U.S. Department of Energy, which resulted in a book, the Politics of Mistrust... "]
Subjects: Budget, Politics and government
Places: N.Y.) Staten Island (New York, New York, New York (State), Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)