New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer Appoints Tim Mulligan Deputy Comptroller For Budget

NEW YORK, NY-New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer today announced the appointment of Tim Mulligan as Deputy Comptroller for Budget, a critical role in his office that monitors the City’s revenue and expenditures.

Mulligan previously served as Deputy Director of Education, Intergovernmental and Community Boards at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Deputy Commissioner of the Office of Legislative Affairs at the Human Resources Administration (HRA).

“I am proud to announce the appointment of Tim Mulligan as Deputy Comptroller for Budget. Ensuring the soundness of our fiscal and economic assumptions — and making every dollar count — is crucial for the residents of New York City. Tim brings over a decade of experience in legislative and budgetary analysisto the Comptroller’s Office. I know that he is up to the extraordinary task of monitoring New York City’s finances,” said Comptroller Scott M. Stringer.

As Deputy Comptroller for Budget, Mulligan will manage and conduct thorough reviews of the main components of the City’s budget, focusing on the soundness of the City’s fiscal and economic assumptions, changes in expense and capital budget priorities and potential developments affecting the City’s fiscal outlook.

Mulligan worked at OMB beginning in 2006, first as an assistant director of the agency’s Intergovernmental Taskforce and most recently as Deputy Director of Education, Intergovernmental and Community Boards. In that role, Mulligan directed the expense, revenue and capital budgets of the Department of Education, the largest public school system in the country, and the City University of New York, the nation’s leading urban public university serving more than 480,000 students at 23 colleges and institutions in the City.

At OMB, Mulligan also served as Fiscal Director of the Mayor’s Office of State Affairs working on state and federal funding issues including the state budget, the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and its enhanced FMAP allocation, pension reform, Close to Home, and several tax abatement programs.

Prior to his work at OMB, Mulligan was Deputy Commissioner in the Office of Legislative Affairs at HRA, which provides more than 3 million New Yorkers with essential social services and programs to help them reach self-sufficiency. In that capacity, Mulligan directed the review and analysis of legislative and policy issues.

Earlier, Mulligan worked as Deputy Director for Court Operations at the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services and as Deputy General Counsel at the Independent Budget Office (IBO), which presents highly-regarded nonpartisan budgetary reviews and economic forecasts about New York City’s budget.

Mulligan, a Truman Scholar, received his B.A. at Boston College, a Masters of Public Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and his J.D. from New York University School of Law.

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