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DCP and OMB changes aim to streamline community board budget requests; boards report missing spreadsheets
Summary
A Department of City Planning (DCP) presentation described refinements to the community district needs/vision cycle and a new online request form; community board members said the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) did not provide past Excel breakdowns and asked DCP to push OMB for better access and earlier openings.
Community board members heard an update on the city’s community district needs and the online budget-request process during the Queens Borough Cabinet meeting.
DCP staff explained that the city has revised its request portal to include implemented and planned improvements and that the new system will not force an applicant to stop mid-submission. DCP also said staff removed confusing OMB response language that previously instructed applicants to "remove this, resubmit this," and added a print function for submissions to make offline proofreading easier.
"Print function, we added a print button to each of the budget request…
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