“This is no time for empty gestures. As the Mayor well knows, cutting 1/1000th of a percent of the City budget is meaningless in the context of a $4.2 billion budget deficit. Furloughing City workers with little payoff instead of scrubbing the budget for real waste and inefficiency is emblematic of the Mayor’s approach to budgeting: a lazy substitute for real work.
“Every mayor before this one regularly tasked City agencies with reviewing their budgets for recurring savings without endangering essential services and public workers. We must reinstate that practice.
“My office voluntarily submitted a 4% reduction of $3.5 million in May to help offset the budget gap and encouraged other elected officials and agencies to do the same.
“No employees were harmed. No essential services were cut.
“It’s past time for the Mayor to get serious. New Yorkers deserve a detailed, comprehensive financial plan to address our current and future budget challenges. Anything less than that is unacceptable.”
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