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2021 Financial Condition Report

For Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2021

Capital

2021 Financial Condition Report
For Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2021

A robust, efficiently managed capital investment program can support healthy economic growth, while the deterioration of capital assets can weaken the State’s economy and its ability to attract and retain business. Capital assets include not only highways and bridges, but also facilities for education, government, health, housing, environmental conservation and recreation.

Capital Spending Has Increased Over the Past Five Years*

  • From SFY 2016-17 to SFY 2020-21, capital spending increased by $2.2 billion (21.4 percent). Spending increases within major categories included:
    • Transportation, up by $659.6 million (11.4 percent). Transportation accounted for 52.4 percent of all capital projects spending in SFY 2020-21, down from 57.1 percent five years earlier.
    • Housing, up by $421.9 million (322.1 percent). This category’s share of total capital spending increased from 1.3 percent to 4.5 percent.
    • Mental Health, Health and Social Welfare purposes, up $523.9 million (83.4 percent).
    • All other purposes, up by $187.4 million (13.0 percent). The increase is largely attributable to:
      • Certain economic development initiatives funded with State resources by the State’s public authorities in recent years; and
      • Projects funded with extraordinary monetary settlement resources from the Dedicated Infrastructure Investment Fund. These included certain funding provided to the Thruway Authority for the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and other Thruway system improvements.

 

  • Over the past 20 years, the State has financed an average of 38.9 percent of non-federal capital spending on a pay-as-you-go basis when including off-budget spending.
  • Over the next five years, the Division of the Budget projects:
    • Capital spending to average $15.5 billion per year; and
    • The share of non-federal capital spending financed on a pay-as-you-go basis to average 26.3 percent.

At the end of SFY 2020-21, the State reported $111 billion in capital assets, an increase of $1.2 billion (1.1 percent) from the prior year.

 

* Actual spending figures in this section do not include off-budget spending by public authorities funded directly from State-Supported bond proceeds, while figures for Division of the Budget projections on the following page include such spending.