Mayor Eric Adams is once again ordering New York City agencies to cut their budgets, one of several belt-tightening measures under Adams that have drawn criticism for their impact on critical services from public schools to libraries.
of the mayor’s nearly $103 billion proposed budget for failing to invest in key programs for the most vulnerable New Yorkers.
The two exceptions — the city's education department and CUNY — will be subject to a 3% cut “to minimize disruption to schools and classrooms,” Jiha wrote. “While we continue to have positive conversations with our partners in Albany, we face a perfect storm of factors,” Jonah Allon, the mayor’s spokesperson, said in a statement. “At the same time, we are facing a slowdown in city tax revenue growth and what is predicted by financial experts to be a weakening of the nation’s economy.”
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