Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams capped off another contentious round of city budget negotiations on Friday by shaking hands on a
Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams shake hands on a Fiscal Year 2025 buget deal. Friday, June 28, 2024.on Friday by shaking hands on a tentative $112.4 billion Fiscal Year 2025 spending plan that restores many of the mayor’s unpopular cuts.
“Throughout this year’s budget process, the council has been clear-eyed about the needs of the communities we represent and what working families require to live in a city they love,” the speaker said. “The Council works hard to secure investments for these priorities within this budget, because they matter to New Yorkers and are irreplaceable. We are immensely proud of the work to restore this funding.
For instance, the budget does not include as much funding for the city’s Universal Pre-K and 3-K programs as advocates and lawmakers had been calling for. The plan added $20 million to expand the tow programs by roughly 2,000 seats in areas with the most need, which is less than the $170 million the mayor eliminated through two rounds of cuts.
The mayor has long made a similar argument that the programs must be realigned before greelighting more seats because the city was paying for spots that no children were occupying.“Parents are grateful to the New York City Council for their herculean efforts in achieving a budget that rolls back some of the Mayor’s cuts to 3-K,” said Rebecca Bailin, executive director of New Yorkers United for Child Care.
“I don’t live my life through the rearview mirror, I live it through the front windsheild,” Adams said. “We made decisions based on the uncertainties we were facing … If we didn’t put in place real iniatives to bring down the numbers, we would be having a different conversation right now.”
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