Mayor Adams orders $1 billion in annual budget cuts for four years - but no layoffs

[Kamaji]

Mayor Adams orders $1 billion in annual budget cuts for four years

By Bernadette Hogan and Jesse O’Neill
April 4, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday ordered city agencies to slash a total of $1 billion annually from their budgets for each of the next four years, blaming the move partly on the migrant crisis.

The dire directive came one day after City Council leaders said there was $1.3 billion in extra taxpayer cash this year to offset costs and two months since the city’s Independent Budget Office projected a $4.9 billion surplus in 2023 and a $2.6 billion surplus in 2024.

City Hall dismissed council claims of a surplus Tuesday as nothing more than budget mumbo jumbo to pressure the mayor to avoid cuts — and even an IBO official said his agency would likely have to revise its glowing projection.

“Proposals in the state budget, the growing asylum-seeker costs and slowing economic growth increase are all reasons to be cautious,” acknowledged Logan Clark, IBO’s assistant director of budget review.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has already cautioned that the Big Apple’s budget deficit could rise to $13.9 billion by 2027 — double what City Hall has predicted.

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Jiha said agencies must submit their proposals for the cuts by April 14 but added that “they cannot include layoffs and should avoid meaningfully impacting services where possible.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/04/04/adams-orders-1-billion-in-annual-budget-cuts-for-three-years/

[Kamaji]

Wonder how that's going to work.  Make significant budget cuts, but do so without laying off anyone, and with as few service cuts as possible.

So, what's going to happen?  Most likely, services will suffer, but staff levels will remain, with the result that there will be even more government employees getting full pay and benefits to sit around and do nothing.

[GtHawk]

Wonder how that's going to work.  Make significant budget cuts, but do so without laying off anyone, and with as few service cuts as possible.

So, what's going to happen?  Most likely, services will suffer, but staff levels will remain, with the result that there will be even more government employees getting full pay and benefits to sit around and do nothing.

Well I bet the police officers retiring and quitting will be a help, and technically that's not laying people off and with the restrictions they have put on police actually doing their jobs I'm not sure people would see a service cut.

[DefiantMassRINO]

 

Garbage men pick up trash for tips?

[Kamaji]

Well I bet the police officers retiring and quitting will be a help, and technically that's not laying people off and with the restrictions they have put on police actually doing their jobs I'm not sure people would see a service cut.

What they may hope for is that senior officers who have made their 20 will retire in droves, and they can then replace them with newbies still wet behind the ear who get paid very little comparatively.

[GtHawk]

What they may hope for is that senior officers who have made their 20 will retire in droves, and they can then replace them with newbies still wet behind the ear who get paid very little comparatively.

Not just the seniors, I wonder how many PTSD and other disability retirement claims they get.

[sneakypete]

New Math?

[LMAO]

Politicians make grand promises

But math eventually wins

[DefiantMassRINO]

 

They eschew math because it's systemically racist, especially the maths that make use of Greek alphabet for functions and variables.