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City Council August 2026

What the Council Asks of NYC Agencies

Every local law hands city agencies work: reports to write, rules to make, programs to run, inspections to carry out. These charts measure that workload using the NYCuriosity Legislation Implementation Tracker, which extracts every obligation from the text of the 2,138 local laws the Council has enacted since 2014.

8,194 Obligations extracted from law text
2,138 Local laws enacted 2014–2026
5,215 Standing recurring obligations today
871 Reports due at least once a year

Charts in this post

Area Chart
New Obligations Per Year
The flow feeding the stack: the Council has added at least 267 standing obligations in every year since 2015, peaking at 608 in 2017, with 534 in 2025, the most since 2019.
2014–2025 · by type Explore →
Area Chart
The Standing-Obligation Stack
Recurring obligations never retire, so they stack: agencies carried 116 standing obligations from post-2014 Council laws at the end of 2014 and carry 5,215 today.
2014–2026 · 5,224 obligations Explore →
Line Chart
Reports Due Every Year
The Council's favorite deliverable is a report. Agencies now owe 871 reports on at least an annual cadence, up from 16 at the end of 2014, 69 new ones a year on average.
2014–2026 · 871 reports Explore →
Interactive Tool
Legislation Implementation Tracker
The tracker behind these charts: browse all 8,194 obligations by agency, deadline, and law, with per-law implementation checklists and member email alerts.
8,194 obligations · 5 views Open tracker →