Mayor Eric Adams is asking city agencies to reduce their budgets by 15% by next spring.
This, he says, to compensate for the increasing costs due to the massive arrival of immigrants in recent months.
These are some of the most drastic municipal budget cuts in years.
The municipal government estimates that the immigration crisis will cost taxpayers $12 billion over the next three fiscal years.
Public departments will have until November to cut the first 5 per cent, with another deadline in January and then April.
Officials assure that the cuts will not mean layoffs.
Mayor Adams indicates that this could be avoided if federal and state support is received.
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Finance Chief Justin Brannan issued a statement that read in part, quote: “We still urgently need more state and federal support to respond to the surge in international migration. “You can expect the city to handle this alone.”
To date, the city has welcomed more than 100,000 new immigrants.
2023-09-10 12:20:00
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