#De Blasio should cut ‘fat’ from budget before laying off city workers, critics say
“#De Blasio should cut ‘fat’ from budget before laying off city workers, critics say”
June 24, 2020 | 8:46pm
Mayor Bill de Blasio
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“There is lots of fat in the proposed budget that the council has identified for the mayor,” Finance Committee Chairman Daniel Dromm (D-Queens) said.
“He refused to work with us on implementing these ideas.”
Dromm, who accused de Blasio of threatening layoffs as a way of “pushing his own agenda,” said the city could “cut $700 million in NYPD overtime, delay new recruits and through attrition reduce the force by 2,000.”
“There’s also some fat in the [Department of Education’s] proposed budget. The mayor should be looking at central administration staff which has increased tremendously over the years,” Dromm said.
“Additionally, the council has asked the mayor to reduce every agency’s budget by 5 to 7 percent. That should be done before laying off people.”
Maria Doulis of the Citizens Budget Commission said de Blasio should strike deals with the city’s labor unions so workers pay for a share of their health insurance and other benefits, as is standard practice in the private sector.
“They haven’t been aggressive enough in cutting the budget and really rising to the fiscal crisis caused by the coronavirus,” she said.
“This is a multi-year problem that requires long-term solutions and aggressively getting ahead of the problem.”
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