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Albany, New York

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General information

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Mayor: Kathy Sheehan
Mayor party: Autonomous
Terminal mayoral election: 2021
Adjacent mayoral election: 2025
Last urban center council election: 2021
Next metropolis council ballot: 2025
City council seats: 16
City website
Composition information (2019)
Population: 97,478
Race: White 55.0%
African American 28.ix%
Asian 6.ix%
Native American 0.two%
Pacific Islander 0.0%
Ii or more 6.1%
Ethnicity: Hispanic x.1%
Median household income: $45,825
Loftier school graduation rate: 87.eight%
College graduation charge per unit: 39.vi%
Related Albany offices
New York Congressional Delegation
New York Country Legislature
New York state executive offices


Albany is a urban center in Albany County, New York. The city's population was 99,224 as of 2020, according to the Usa Demography Bureau.

Click on the links below to learn more than about the metropolis's...

  • Mayor
  • City council
  • Other elected officials
  • Elections
  • Census information
  • Budget
  • Contact information
  • Ballot measures

Metropolis government

Run across also: Mayor-council government

The metropolis of Albany utilizes a strong mayor and urban center council organization. In this grade of municipal government, the metropolis council serves every bit the metropolis'southward primary legislative body and the mayor serves every bit the city'due south chief executive.[1]

Mayor

The mayor is the city's chief executive. The responsibilities of the mayor include proposing a upkeep, signing legislation into law, appointing all boards, authorities and commissions, and overseeing the city's day-to-day operations. The mayor also possesses veto powers and represents the city on the land, national, and international levels.[2]

The current Mayor of Albany is Kathy Sheehan (D). Sheehan causeless office on January ane, 2014.

City council

The Albany Common Quango is the city's principal legislative trunk. Information technology is responsible for adopting the metropolis budget, approving mayoral appointees, levying taxes, and making or alteration city laws, policies, and ordinances.[3]

The common council is made upward of 16 members. While the president is elected at large, the other 15 members are elected by the city's fifteen districts.[3]

Other elected officials

Ballotpedia does not encompass whatever boosted city officials in Albany, New York.

Elections

2021

Come across also: Mayoral election in Albany, New York (2021) and City elections in Albany, New York (2021)

The city of Albany, New York, held general elections for mayor and city council on Nov 2, 2021. A primary was scheduled for June 22, 2021. The filing borderline for this ballot was March 25, 2021.

Demography information

The table below shows demographic information about the metropolis.

Demographic Data for Albany (2020)
Albany
Population 96,860
Land surface area (sq mi) 21
Race and ethnicity**
White 53.viii%
Black/African American 29%
Asian 6.nine%
Native American 0.2%
Pacific Islander 0%
Two or more 7.1%
Hispanic/Latino x.1%
Didactics
Loftier school graduation rate 88.7%
College graduation rate 42.v%
Income
Median household income $48,512
Persons below poverty level 22.ix%
Source: U.South. Census Agency, "American Community Survey" (five-year estimates 2015-2020)
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 pct considering respondents may written report more than than 1 race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with whatever race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the demography here.

Budget

The city's upkeep process operates on a fiscal year wheel from January 1 to December 31. The mayor is responsible for presenting the budget to the common council on or before Oct i. The mutual quango holds public hearings to allow for public input in the budget process on or before October 31. The common council must approve the budget by Nov 30.[iv] [5]

Fiscally standardized cities information

The fiscally standardized cities (FiSC) data below was compiled past the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to make municipal budgets comparable beyond cities in the United States.[half dozen]

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FiSCs are constructed by adding revenues and expenditures of each central urban center municipal regime to a portion of the revenues and expenditures of overlying governments, including counties, contained school districts, and special districts. The allocations to FiSCs are estimates of the revenues collected from and services provided to fundamental city residents and businesses by these overlying independent governments. Thus FiSCs provides a full pic of revenues raised from urban center residents and businesses and spending on their behalf, whether done by the metropolis government or a separate overlying government.[seven]

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—Lincoln Found of Land Policy[viii]

The tables beneath show estimated finances within metropolis limits. As such, the revenue and expenses listed may differ from the actual urban center budget.

Acquirement in 2017
Revenue type Amount
Total Revenue $628,418,738
General Revenue $628,418,738
Federal Aid $6,543,305
Country Help $193,505,917
Tax Revenue $330,355,103
Charges & Misc. Full general Revenue $98,014,413
Utility Acquirement $0
Liquor Store Revenue $0
Employee Retirement Trust Revenue $0
Expenditures in 2017
Expenditure type Corporeality
Total Expenditures $622,199,611
General Expenditures $599,449,361
Didactics Services Expenditure $254,925,423
Social Services and Income Maintenance Expenditure $67,799,252
Transportation Expenditure $17,708,351
Public Safety Expenditure $114,177,286
Surroundings and Housing Expenditure $19,110,837
Governmental Administration Expenditure $18,946,300
Interest on General Debt $32,181,776
Miscellaneous Expenditure $74,600,136
Utility Expenditure $395,674
Liquor Store Expenditure $0
Employee Retirement Trust Expenditure $0
Intergovernmental Expenditures $22,353,597

Historical total revenue and expenditure

To meet the historical total revenue or expenditures as a rounded amount in this city, hover over the confined.[six]

Contact data

Mayor's office
City Hall, Room 102
24 Hawkeye Street
Albany, NY 12207
Phone: 518-434-5100

City Clerk's office
Urban center Hall, Room 202
24 Eagle Street
Albany, NY 12207
Phone: 518-434-5090

Click hither for city quango contact information.

Ballot measures

See also: Albany County, New York ballot measures

The city of Albany is in Albany County. A listing of ballot measures in Albany County is bachelor hither.

See also

  • Cities in New York
  • Albany County, New York
  • Largest cities in the United states of america by population

External links

  • City of Albany
  • Office of the Mayor
  • Common Council
  • City lawmaking

Footnotes

  1. ↑ New York State, "City Regime," accessed December 7, 2021
  2. ↑ City of Albany, "Charter: Section 301 Mayor's Powers and Duties Generally," accessed December 7, 2021
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 City of Albany, "Lease: Department 401 Common Quango; Status and Title," accessed December vii, 2021
  4. ↑ City of Albany, "Audited Financial Statements and Supplementary Data - Year ended December 31, 2015," accessed December 7, 2021
  5. ↑ Urban center of Albany, "On Oct 1, 2021 Mayor Sheehan presented the 2022 Budget to the Albany Mutual Council," October 18, 2021
  6. ↑ half-dozen.0 6.1 Lincoln Found of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities database," accessed June iv, 2021
  7. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Whatever inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  8. ↑ Lincoln Found of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities," accessed May 26, 2021
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