Mayor Adams rolled out a $98.5 billion municipal government budget blueprint Wednesday that he touted as an antidote to “decades of inefficiency” that would root out wasteful spending and boost public safety without increasing funding for the NYPD.
The 2023 fiscal year preliminary budget, which marks the first salvo in a monthslong negotiation process with the City Council, is about $200 million smaller than former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s 2022 budget. Adams credits the decrease to the 3% spending cut he ordered at nearly all municipal agencies last month.
“My administration is laser-focused on fiscal discipline,” Adams said at City Hall while unveiling the preliminary budget, his first since taking office. “We are not spending our money. We are spending your money.”
Thanks to the 3% shave, known as a “Program to Eliminate the Gap” or PEG, Adams’ budget expects to reduce municipal government spending by nearly $2 billion and head count by 10,200 over the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years without any layoffs.
Among the agencies ordered to trim the fat is the NYPD, which Adams said he does not envision getting a larger pot of cash for as part of his 2023 budget.
In fact, Adams said the NYPD will see a “slight decrease” in spending as he works to phase out redundant administrative positions in the department and put more cops on patrol.
But the mayor stressed the NYPD budget stabilization will not take away from his mission to crack down on the city’s recent spike in violent crime — and did not rule out hiring more officers.
“No matter what we do, I’m going to make sure we have the right number of officers to keep our city safe,” he told reporters in a news conference following his speech.
He added, “That’s the No. 1 concern right now — public safety.”
The Health Department was exempt from Adams’ 3% reduction directive due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but would nonetheless get a $194 million cut, while Health + Hospitals, the city’s public hospital system, would have its budget sliced by more than $400 million.
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development would also get a nearly $1 million reduction in funding, angering affordable housing advocates who accused Adams of breaking a campaign promise.
“We are extremely disappointed that Mayor Eric Adams did not even mention housing in his remarks nor prioritize it in his budget plans, instead choosing to maintain the status quo and abandon his campaign promise to double city capital spending on affordable housing and NYCHA,” said Rachel Fee, executive director of the New York Housing Conference.
“In the process, he sent a loud and clear signal to his struggling constituents: ‘Despite what I said on the campaign trail, don’t expect bold action on housing.’ ”
That's good, siphon money from the health dept. and housing, that won't simultaneously exacerbate the city's perpetual mental health and homeless crises
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Wait to the Fed money dries yup, Eric will be singing a different tune !
His budget is a Beta Test for the next big recession comming to nyc in the next few years.
There have been as many as 48 recessions in the United States and we are in the beginning of one now.
They should cut the education department by 50%. First off, nobody would even notice. Second, educational results would likely improve.
Hush chile. You can’t say nothin bout a black man
Hey idiot-wear your mask!
It's amazing how so many of the ruling class get seen without wearing their oh so precious face diapers while they DEMAND the unwashed masses have to wear them and get Kool Aid shots (that they themselves likely avoid). How are they going to save the world from the germ of CERTAIN death if they aren't following their own decrees? Don't they know they're spreading death if THEY don't obey????
Biba la Buba
If he wants to save money he should start by firing 10,000 cops and selling off their cars. That'll free up the bus and bike lanes. The only ones who'll lose from this, besides the fired cops, would be Verizon etc. and Dunkin's. They do nothing except stare at their phones all day anyway.
@They do nothing except stare at their phones all day anyway.
Personal experience? Maybe you are looking for some easy burglaries?
That's why your ass is in prison now?
Eric always looking Fly !
Prove me wrong...
NYC FURTHER Punishing Workers Who Were Fired Over Vax Mandate, CUT OFF From Food Stamps & Benefits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj9IUfONtQs
Unemployment checks? So now NYC is stealing the money people pay into the system for unemployment benefits. Plus the money NYC by law has to pay into the system.
Great Reset? Heck NO. Great Theft!
Brought to you by Eric Adams, WEF lapdog.
We don't treat War criminals as bad as the non-Vaxed !
Eric We are not safe in NYC !
https://nypost.com/2022/02/19/suspect-arrested-in-subway-stabbing-of-nyc-breakdancer/
@"We don't treat War criminals as bad as the non-Vaxed !"
War criminals don't fill up hospital beds that could be put to better use. Unlike the Un-Vaxed Assholes.
@Eric always looking Fly! Prove me wrong...
Fly? FLY?? Not only are you wrong, but your fake savior's flashy wardrobe does not demonstrate any level of hard work, much less accountability and competence.
This overdressed termite would be loathe to compete with the intellect of an actual fly—— and the fly would prove to be more accomplished! I take a dim view of any public servant who has endless time to cavort with white elitists at private clubs after midnight like ZERO Bond (the very same elitist pals who bankrolled his campaign from East Hampton!), but he is always too tired, incompetent and out of focus to address and resolve the REAL problems that the previous administration left behind with a vengeance (including the lifting of $1 Billion from NYC Thrive that no one in the DA's office questions). Also disturbing is how he sounds like an uneducated street thug whenever a mic is before him.
Even if the bee could explain to the fly that honey is better than shit——he wouldn't understand.
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