NEW YORK CONVENTION CENTER OPERATING CORPORATION Financial Statements and Independent Auditors’ Report March 31, 2020 and 2019 NEW YORK CONVENTION CENTER OPERATING CORPORATION Table of Contents Page Independent Auditors’ Report 1 - 2 Management’s Discussion and Analysis 3 - 14 Financial Statements: Statements of Net Position 15 Statements of Revenue, Expenses and Changes in Net Position 16 Statements of Cash Flows 17 Notes to Financial Statements 18 - 34 Required Supplementary Information: Schedule of the Corporation’s Proportionate Share of the Net Pension Liability 35 Schedule of the Corporation’s Pension Contributions 36 Schedule of Changes in the Corporation’s Total OPEB Liability and Related Ratios 37 Independent Auditors’ Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting and on Compliance and Other Matters Based on an Audit of the Financial Statements Performed in Accordance with Government Auditing Standards 38 - 39 Independent Auditors’ Report on Investment Compliance 40 - 41 * * * * * * INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT The Board of Directors New York Convention Center Operating Corporation: Report on the Financial Statements We have audited the accompanying financial statements of New York Convention Center Operating Corporation (the “Corporation”) as of and for the years ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, and the related notes to financial statements, which collectively comprise the Corporation’s basic financial statements as listed in the table of contents. Management’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America; this includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. Auditor’s Responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement. An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the Corporation’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Corporation’s internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion. Opinion In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the New York Convention Center Operating Corporation as of March 31, 2020 and 2019, and the respective changes in financial position and cash flows for the years then ended in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Other Matters As discussed in note 1(g) to the financial statements, the Corporation adopted the provisions of Governmental Accounting Standards Board (“GASB”) Statement No. 87 - “Leases,” during the year ended March 31, 2020. Our opinion is not modified with respect to this matter. Required Supplementary Information Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require that the management’s discussion and analysis on pages 3 through 14 and the additional information on pages 35 through 37 be presented to supplement the basic financial statements. Such information, although not a part of the basic financial statements, is required by the GASB, who considers it to be an essential part of financial reporting for placing the basic financial statements in an appropriate operational, economic, or historical context. We have applied certain limited procedures to the required supplementary information in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America, which consisted of inquiries of management about the methods of preparing the information and comparing the information for consistency with management’s responses to our inquiries, the basic financial statements, and other knowledge we obtained during our audit of the basic financial statements. We do not express an opinion or provide any assurance on the information because the limited procedures do not provide us with sufficient evidence to express an opinion or provide any assurance. Other Reporting Required by Government Auditing Standards In accordance with Government Auditing Standards, we have also issued our report dated June 22, 2020, on our consideration of the Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting and on our tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts, and grant agreements and other matters. The purpose of that report is solely to describe the scope of our testing of internal control over financial reporting and compliance and the results of that testing, and not to provide an opinion on the effectiveness of the Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting or on compliance. That report is an integral part of an audit performed in accordance with Government Auditing Standards in considering the Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting and compliance. Williamsville, New York June 22, 2020 2 MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS NEW YORK CONVENTION CENTER OPERATING CORPORATION Management’s Discussion and Analysis March 31, 2020 and 2019 Overview of the Financial Statements This annual report includes management’s discussion and analysis, the independent auditor’s reports, and the financial statements of New York Convention Center Operating Corporation (“NYCCOC”, the “Javits Center”, or the “Center”). The financial statements include required supplementary information and footnotes that explain in more detail the information in the annual report. Readers should consider management’s discussion and analysis in conjunction with the financial statements taken as a whole. The financial statements of the Javits Center report information using accounting methods like those used by private sector companies. These statements offer short and long-term financial information about the Center’s financial activities and may be summarized as follows: The Statements of Net Position presents the financial position of the Javits Center at the end of each fiscal year reported. It includes all the Center’s assets and liabilities and deferred inflows and outflows and provides information about the nature and amounts of investments in resources (assets) and the obligations to the Center’s creditors (liabilities). It also provides the basis for evaluating the net position of the Center and assessing the Center’s liquidity and financial strength. The current assets and liabilities represent assets expected to be converted into cash and/or utilized and liabilities expected to be paid and/or settled during the subsequent fiscal year. The Statements of Revenues, Expenses and Changes in Net Position presents the Javits Center’s revenues and expenses, for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2020 and 2019. This statement measures the financial performance of the Center during the fiscal years presented and can be used to determine whether the Center has recovered all its costs through space rental and related event services. The Statements of Cash Flows presents cash receipts, cash payments and net changes in cash resulting from operating, capital and related financing activities and investing and provides answers to such questions as where cash originated from, what cash was used for, and what was the change in Javits Center’s cash position for the fiscal years presented. The mission of the Javits Center is to serve the citizens of the State and City of New York by generating new business and employment opportunities, serving as a catalyst for the continued redevelopment of the local community and operating in the public interest, consistent with the social, economic and environmental priorities of existing state policy. The Center meets these objectives through maximizing the booking of trade events, public events and special events (corporate events and conferences) that stimulate spending within the regional economy, create jobs at the Center and in the surrounding community and generate a reliable source of revenue for the State and City of New York. 3 NEW YORK CONVENTION CENTER OPERATING CORPORATION Management’s Discussion and Analysis, Continued Overview