Comptroller

I'm Chris Ratty, Senior Sustainable Finance Analyst and host for today's episode.

I'm joined by Mark Levine, New York City Comptroller.

As Comptroller, Mark is New York City's independently elected Chief Financial Officer.

His office audits city agencies, approves or rejects city contracts, manages the city's five pension funds, which collectively hold over three hundred and twenty-five billion in assets, and correct me if I'm wrong on that, and they also publish independent fiscal analysis.

So thanks for joining us today, Mark.

Chris, it's a pleasure to be here.

Thank you.

Is there anything else you wanna add about the role of Comptroller before we get started?

We've constantly gone against it.

But when you actually look at it, according to findings from the Comptroller and the Auditor General, only about 61% of that tax is actually going to its intended purpose.

So the whole thing is wrong.

Everything about this is wrong.

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Well, Comptroller Don Huffines, thank you so much for your time today.

And I'll let you get back to drinking out of that fire hose at the Comptroller's office.

Thank you, Michael.

I can't wait to work on property tax.

Under the Continental Congress But Franklin was not to remain idle, for when the Continental Congress met at its second session at Philadelphia, July 26, 1775, they resolved to have a post-office system of their own, and he was selected to carry on the work.

A salary of $1,000 per annum was voted him, with permission to employ a secretary and a comptroller, with a salary of $340 per annum to each, and a line of posts ordered established from Fawmouth, New England, to Savannah, Georgia, with postages twenty percentum less than those afforded by Parliament.

However, Franklin's great diplomatic ability soon secured him a transfer to a wider field of usefulness, and his son-in-law, Richard Bach, who had been Comptroller, was named to succeed him.

The ledger kept by this gentleman is still preserved among the archives of the department.

It consists of about three quines of foolscap written over in a neat and legible hand.

After sermon to Deptford again, where at the Commissioner's and the Globe we stayed long, and so I to Mr. Davis to bed again.

But no sooner in bed, but we had an alarm, and so we rose, and the Comptroller comes into the yard to us, and seamen of all the ships present repair to us, and there we armed with everyone a handspike, with which they were as fierce as could be.

At last we hear that it was only five or six men that did ride through the guard in the town without stopping to the guard that was there, and some say shot at them.

But all being quiet there, we cause the seamen to go on board again.

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Up and down the yard all the morning and seeing the seamen exercise, which they do already very handsomely.

Then to dinner at Mr. Ackworth's, where there also dined with us one Captain Bethel, a friend of the Comptroller's.

A good dinner and very handsome.

And that obviously wasn't happening in Colorado, but that's what's so strange about the Chicago case, is that it, it seems like there was regulatory structures in place.

But because crematories were run differently and were in a different structure, uh, the, the Department of Regulations versus the Comptroller, I believe, the crematories and funeral home li- and, um, funeral directing licenses were run by different boards and different places.

It means that the first time your crematory got shut down with the 100 rotted bodies, that wasn't enough-

Right

... show up in the news and people's radar, which is awful.

Right.

So this is a, um, there's a woman named, uh, Susanna Mendoza, who is the Illinois State Comptroller.

Hmm.