NYC budget cuts could gut sanitation, schools: experts

[Kamaji]

NYC budget cuts could gut sanitation, schools: experts

By Jon Levine, Tina Moore and Matthew Sedacca
Published Sep. 9, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams’ demand for budget cuts of up to 15% across all New York City agencies could gut a host of critical municipal services, including trash pickups, afterschool programs and cops, experts told The Post

New Yorkers will have to endure a decrease in many city-backed services, including extra sanitation routes, Chris Coffey, CEO of Tusk Strategies and former aide to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, told The Post.

“It just depends on how creative each commissioner is on how to do more with less,” Coffey said, noting OT hours for police officers could hit the chopping block.

Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters, said that the latest round of proposed cuts by Adams would be a “doomsday scenario” for the city’s schools.

Slashing funding would translate into “a loss of after-school programs, larger class sizes — they’d have to cut everything,” Haimson said.

Andrew Ansbro, president of the FDNY Uniformed Firefighters Association, said the fire department is already stretched so thin the only cuts he could envision were “gutting everything in headquarters and all the fire prevention, recruitment efforts and everything else” besides the rank-and-file.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/09/09/nyc-budget-cuts-could-gut-sanitation-routes-school-programs/

[Idiot]

NYC budget cuts could gut sanitation, schools: experts

By Jon Levine, Tina Moore and Matthew Sedacca
Published Sep. 9, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams’ demand for budget cuts of up to 15% across all New York City agencies could gut a host of critical municipal services, including trash pickups, afterschool programs and cops, experts told The Post

New Yorkers will have to endure a decrease in many city-backed services, including extra sanitation routes, Chris Coffey, CEO of Tusk Strategies and former aide to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, told The Post.

“It just depends on how creative each commissioner is on how to do more with less,” Coffey said, noting OT hours for police officers could hit the chopping block.

Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters, said that the latest round of proposed cuts by Adams would be a “doomsday scenario” for the city’s schools.

Slashing funding would translate into “a loss of after-school programs, larger class sizes — they’d have to cut everything,” Haimson said.

Andrew Ansbro, president of the FDNY Uniformed Firefighters Association, said the fire department is already stretched so thin the only cuts he could envision were “gutting everything in headquarters and all the fire prevention, recruitment efforts and everything else” besides the rank-and-file.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/09/09/nyc-budget-cuts-could-gut-sanitation-routes-school-programs/

Danged climate change!

[Smokin Joe]

Of course the budget cuts will affect sanitation, schools, FDNY, the Police, but NOT the thousands of administrative positions, and definitely not those in City Hall.

If you peons want budget cuts, you will get them, and hard, but not the upper crust.

[Kamaji]

Of course the budget cuts will affect sanitation, schools, FDNY, the Police, but NOT the thousands of administrative positions, and definitely not those in City Hall.

If you peons want budget cuts, you will get them, and hard, but not the upper crust.

Yup.

[Wingnut]

No cuts to  bloated administration staff.  Oh well. 

[Fishrrman]