Thursday, April 27, 2023

Mayor Adams announces little ugly city budget while the big ugly state budget remains in limbo

City & State

New York City Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a $106.7 billion budget proposal for fiscal year 2024 on Wednesday – the largest in city history – backing off, in small part, from some of the 4% agency cuts he’s stressed as necessary. The proposal reflects few, if any, direct service cuts, while adjusting spending estimates downward to hedge for future “storm clouds ahead” like ongoing costs associated with the influx of asylum-seekers, according to Adams. The proposal also includes a limited slate of new spending proposals to, as Adams put it, improve the city’s sustainability and resilience, strengthen mental health resources, uplift “working people,” and bolster the college to workforce pipeline. 

“We had to make tough choices in this budget. We had to negotiate competing needs. We realize that not everyone will be happy, but that is OK,” Adams said from City Hall Wednesday afternoon. 

Here are some of the top numbers you need to know to understand the city’s finances.

$106.7 billion – The size of the proposed expense budget, which is the largest ever. The total spending increased $4 billion dollars since the preliminary budget, which landed at $102.7 billion in January. The actual adopted budget last June was $101 billion… but the city is now expecting to actually spend $108.9 billion through the end of fiscal year 2023. 

$4.2 billion, $6 billion, $7 billion – The respective budget gaps in fiscal years 2025, 2026 and 2027. While Adams presented a balanced budget for the current fiscal year and the upcoming fiscal year 2024, hefty budget gaps remain in the outyear due in part to increased pay for city workers under new labor contracts. Fiscal watchdogs have warned that these budget gaps necessitate caution in New York City’s current spending plans.

$1.6 billion – The total savings achieved between fiscal years 2023 and 2024 through the latest Program to Eliminate the Gap, according to City Hall. Adams said that these cuts were accomplished without any layoffs or service reductions – but with some savings achieved by taking vacant jobs off the rolls, it’s unclear how the city will maintain previous levels of service. 

$4.3 billion The amount of money that the city anticipates spending on providing shelter, food, clothing and other services to asylum-seekers through the end of fiscal year 2024. This is a figure that Adams has pointed to repeatedly in recent weeks as one of the big reasons that cuts are necessary. While the city will likely receive $1 billion in aid from the state, and predicts getting $600 million from the federal government, that total would only cover under 40% of the city’s projected costs. 

Over 57,000 people – The latest estimate of how many asylum-seekers have arrived in New York City in the past year. Some 35,000 are currently in city shelters, City Hall says.

70,000 people – How many asylum-seekers City Hall anticipates will be in the city’s care by June 2024.

$16 billion – The total anticipated cost of agreements with the city’s remaining unionized workforces that have yet to strike deals, over the next five years. The city has already reached agreements with District Council 37 and the Police Benevolent Association, which will likely set the economic framework for ongoing negotiations with the United Federation of Teachers and other labor groups. 

26 days – How late the state budget is past the April 1 deadline – and counting. Adams is releasing its executive budget without final numbers from the state, which funds about 17% of the city budget. “We may have to go back,” to create new estimates after it’s finalized, Adams said, “and our budget mod is going to reflect that.”

50% – Of working-age households in New York City don’t make incomes that cover their basic needs like housing, food, transportation and health care, according to a report sponsored by the United Way of New York City and the Fund for the City of New York. While the jarring figure is not included in Adams’ budget proposal, its recent release adds gravity to the negotiations over proposed cuts to programs and services.

$23.2 million – The cost of expanding the Department of Sanitation’s voluntary curbside composting program to all five boroughs by 2024. While Adams mostly focused on savings, this was one of a few new, relatively low-cost initiatives added to the budget. 

$27 million – Baseline funding allocated to continue the expansion of the Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division, or B-HEARD pilot program into the rest of the Bronx as well as other high-need neighborhoods throughout the city. The program, aimed at changing how the city responds to mental health emergencies by dispatching social workers and paramedics to people in crisis, is currently operating in a handful of neighborhoods. 

 Might as well leave this here since our Mayor is being all frugal...

NY Post 

The NYPD commissioner in charge of employee relations is having a difficult time — with her employee relations. 

More than 10 cops working under Deputy Commissioner Lisa White — who’s in charge of officer morale in the 35,000 uniformed member force — have either transferred or asked to be transferred out of her office because of her off-the-wall shenanigans, including claiming there are ghosts in her office and that workers are bugging her phone, police sources told The Post. 

The final straw for one of them, a detective assigned to drive her in a department-assigned Ford SUV, came when White, 61, ordered the cop to turn on the lights and sirens because she was late for work.

When the detective refused, White ordered her out, hopped into the driver’s seat and took over, barreling from her Crown Heights apartment to One Police Plaza in lower Manhattan like a bat out of hell, the sources said.

“She told the driver to pull over and she went behind the wheel and almost got in like f–king five accidents,” a police source said. “It was so bad that the driver … said, ‘I can’t do this anymore. Now she’s putting my life at risk.’”

The detective-driver was one of “multiple” officers who have requested to transfer out of White’s unit — even some cops White brought to the unit with her — since Mayor Adams appointed her in May 2022, insiders said.  

“There’s been a large turnover in that office and more people are requesting to go,” the source said.

Bizarrely, the deputy commissioner has accused employees of “planting bugs in her office, bugs in her phone” and “all sorts of crazy stuff,” the source said.

She once accused them of releasing “confidential information” when someone gave out her schedule.

She’s also told employees “there’s ghosts in her office,” a second police source said.

Some of her higher ups want White out because of her antics, but she has close personal ties to Adams, the sources said.


31 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mayor Adams always was and always will be a TrumpTurd.

NPC_translator said...

So in a fantabulously bloated budget full of billions in pointless bureaucracy, a budget you could easily cut by 30% and not even notice a difference, we spend more. Oh well. Grifters gotta grift.

As for the billions spent on "asylum seekers" (aka economic migrants) the spending should be precisely $0.0. Deny them all city services, including schooling, healthcare, housing. Every damn thing. See how long before they leave or go back to where they came from. Though actually in Biden's Nazi America, it's probably way easier to enter the country than to leave it.

Anonymous said...

Not all is lost. NYPD are getting lots more $$$. Sitting on your fat but staring at a phone inside an air-conditioned patrol car is very stressful, you know.

Thank you Mayor TrumpTurd.

Anonymous said...

This is fun to watch! NYC voters getting what they want.

Anonymous said...

It’s ok. Sandy went to the border and cried. So we’re good. Move along.

Anonymous said...

The Suburban White Mom Vote caused this mess !

Anonymous said...

Speaking of budgets. Here in the great free state of Florida, our governor's war on Mickey Mouse is eating into our state's resources.
Do we call on the international community for aid in this war?

LowIQAnon said...

Give the super rich another tax break. That'll solve everything.

Anonymous said...

Good for Eric ! Giving the voters what they want.

Kitara said...

I see the NY post in the second part of this article. I can only presume that the second part of the article is a total fabrication, as all of Rupert Murdoch's misinformation is.

Anonymous said...

A bill was introduced to the New York City Council Thursday that would make parking fines proportional to income. Electric cost in CA is tied to your income. Have good credit, pay more so that people with bad credit can get foreclosed on.

Socialist Liberal Democrats are working hard to get rid of the middle class!

Anonymous said...

Only in the bizzaro world of NYC could $106 billion be considered, even sarcastically, as little.

It's your money, you voted for these scumbags....

Anonymous said...

Cops are such a waste of city resources. Get paid just for showing up.
Sad.

Anonymous said...

This is all Joe Biden's fault.

Anonymous said...

BUILD BACK BETTER 2.0 ... BIDEN/HARRIS 2024!!!!

Kitara said...

@"A bill was introduced to the New York City Council Thursday that would make parking fines proportional to income. "

Seems like a great idea to me. $115 is nothing to a corporate crook or greedy landlord. They should do that for all traffic fines. That may cut down on spoiled teenagers racing in daddy's BMW.

Anonymous said...

@"waste of city resources" Get a job first and pay some taxes !

Anonymous said...

@"second part of the article is a total fabrication" Only in your "Woke" mind.

Anonymous said...

@"Give the super rich another tax break. That'll solve everything."
Now you got a good idea. Economics 101

Anonymous said...

Swagger Man has done more to prove true what we already knew to be true.

Anonymous said...

With Demonrats it's always- You're free to do what you want as long as you do exactly what we want you to do

Anonymous said...

Democrats are very generous -- with other people's money.

Anonymous said...

Swagger Man makes The Dope from Park Slope look good !

Anonymous said...

It looks like Kathy's invitation for people who don't agree with her to leave is working like a charm.

Anonymous said...

NY has nothing to worry about. Clown Hochul has the answer to this problem. Raise taxes on those who remain. Problem solved. LOL...

Anonymous said...

I left NY after 57 years. Retired. Kids gone. Sold two homes. One in Rockland, one in the Catskills. Took my savings, 401K and pensions to a RED state and totally divested in NY. I was not one of those TOP earners in NY. Made a lil over 100k a year like most of us. I now no longer pay state income tax, my property tax is a little over $1 an acre, I have 8 acres. I paid 14K in property tax in Rockland with a 1/4ac. I am now one hour away from a major city. There are friendly, God fearing people who carry guns and amazingly...no one ever gets shot or robbed around our town. People respect the police and the youth say M'am, Sir and hold doors for people.

Get out of NYS before they create an exit tax and make you pay to leave.

Anonymous said...

Swagger Man : Everything is always someone else's fault !

Anonymous said...

Mayor Adams, You hurt NYC by telling the world that we are a Sanctuary City. Politicians want cheap labor and a new voting base for their crime ridden cities. You hurt African Americans citizens like me who have live in Bayside for over 75 years. The competition for jobs and housing will be taken over by citizens from other countries...

Anonymous said...

The amount of sheer insanity coming out of this administration is breathtaking.

Anonymous said...

This is Not a joke - C'mon man

Anonymous said...

@"I left NY after 57 years. Retired. Kids gone. Sold two homes. One in Rockland, one in the Catskills."

That's strange, the last time, you had two homes, one in Forest Hills and another in Pennsylvania. Oh, and the trailer in the "Great Swamp of Florida".

Can ya get your story straight for once? They say magic mushrooms can create all kinds of hallucinations? Where do you get yours?




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