But he described it as "a one-shot" -- a one-time source of revenue.
She said it relied too heavily on revenue that is not sure to materialize from year to year -- $6.6 million in a one-time source of revenue -- and could set the stage for future budget problems.
The money is a one-time source of revenue, and was agreed upon by the governor and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg this year as part of a plan to help the city close a multibillion-dollar budget gap.
On the revenue side, Mr. Gulotta apparently proposed not a single one-time source of revenue, like selling county land or property.
In addition, Iraq has built up inventories of roughly seven million barrels stored at the Turkish port of Ceyhan, which could provide the government with a quick, one-time source of cash.
"There's been a lot of demotion upward," said one Time source.
But Timothy Blake, a municipal analyst for Moody's, said the weakness of Mr. McGreevey's budget plan was that it relied heavily on one-time sources of revenue, from depleting surpluses in several funds for state retirement health benefits to selling bonds against proceeds of a tobacco settlement.
Mr. Duncan and his crew are more likely to draw up a list heavy with one-time sources of money.
In addition to having extraordinary expenses, a business can also have one-time sources of income.
Mr. Pataki has long been a critic of using so-called one-shots, one-time sources of revenue, to pay for permanent programs.
Unlike past budgets, the 2001 plan contains no so-called one-shots, one-time sources of revenue like the sale of a hospital or of the county's rights to tobacco settlement money.
