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Mayor Adams unveils sweeping

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By Morgan McKay Published November 16, 2023 6:22PM Updated 10:24PM New York City FOX 5 NY

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Mayor Eric Adams’ administration announced on Thursday that the city is enacting around $4 billion in budget
cuts over the next year and a half that will cancel the hiring of new police officers, slash the education budget by on subway released on
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NEW YORK - Mayor Eric Adams’ administration announced on Thursday NYPD to upstate New
that the city is enacting around $4 billion in budget cuts over the next year York horse farms
and a half that will cancel the hiring of new police officers, slash the
education budget by $1 billion and close libraries on Sundays.

City officials say this is all due to the migrant crisis and without additional
federal aid – these cuts will only continue to grow. DAILY NEWSLETTER
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"This is the most painful exercise I’ve ever done in my professional life,"
Adams said.

These cuts go into effect immediately.

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PBA President Patrick Hendry said. "Cops are already stretched to our communications blackout
breaking point, and these cuts will return us to staffing levels we haven’t
seen since the crime epidemic of the ‘80s and ‘90s. We cannot go back Apple agrees to improve
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support police officers and protect New York City’s thirty years of public
safety progress."

City Council Finance Chair Justin Brannan agreed that this is not the time to
make cuts to public safety.

"If you talk to most people on the street, they want to see more cops not
less," Brannan said.

The city has taken in more than 142,000 migrants since last spring and the
Adams administration blames this crisis for these cuts.

City officials say, without additional federal aid, these cuts will continue.

The Adams administration also plans to make about 20 percent cuts to

migrant services but wouldn’t go into specifics.

"We're taking a look at everything," Emergency Management Commissioner

Zach Iscol said. "One of the first things that we are looking at is the asylum
seeker operations and where we can be making savings."

Here’s a breakdown of some of the other major cuts:

For the FDNY: Overtime costs will be reduced, any civilian vacancies
will be eliminated, as well as light duty firefighter positions.

For the Education Department: $547 million will be cut this fiscal year
and another $600 million in 2025 – a total of 1 billion dollars will be
slashed over two years. Middle schoolers will see reduced hours for the
Summer Rising summer program – the Friday program will be
eliminated for middle school participants and the summer camp day
will be shortened and end at 4 pm instead of 6 pm. Additionally,
thousands of spots for universal prekindergarten will be cut.

Libraries will also see major funding cuts and library leaders say that
starting in December this will force them to close most of their
branches on Sundays.

"We also will be reducing spending on library materials, programming, and

building maintenance and repairs," NYC library leaders said. "Without
sufficient funding, we cannot sustain our current levels of service, and any
further cuts to the Libraries’ budgets will, unfortunately, result in deeper
service impacts."

"Ithink this is a moment that really calls for a thoughtful surgeon's blade,
not these wholesale cuts across the board," Brannan emphasized.

And these are not the only budget cuts coming - the Adams administration
has warned city agencies they should brace for an additional two rounds of
5 percent budget cuts early next year – totaling another 10 percent – if the
city does not receive more state or federal aid to help with the migrant
crisis.

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