City Council President Corey Johnson said Wednesday that the city should be “cautious” about how it spends $ 6 billion in stimulus funds, according to the Post, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan for prolific spending He is spending taxpayers’ cash “like a drunken sailor.”
“We definitely have to be careful, because it is not about this current fiscal year that we are going to vote on the budget,” the chairman said in a virtual press conference. “But there are $ 4 to $ 5 billion gaps in those outside years, and we need to plan for that.”
While Johnson, who is running for city controller, said that “some spending is good,” such as funding for education and summer school, he warned that the city would likely face the Big Apple’s face in future years Needs attention.
“With this money coming in, we have to see it as a one-time thing that we are getting,” he said. “We need to make sure that it is structured over several years, so that we are looking at the long-term risks that the city has, not just short-term risks.”
Johnson did not say what items should be put back on the racks in the city’s shopping spree, but he said he is waiting for hashing things in a conversation with the mayor.
“The council will talk about that as we go through these budget hearings, as we go to the budget negotiations in June,” he said of saving money for the rainy days ahead.
Following the lag in the epidemic-hit city budget by US rescue plan funds, critics said that de Blasio is spending American relief plan money like “drunken sailors”, the Post reported on Tuesday.
The $ 98.6 billion budget among spending on record is $ 234 million for a cleaning duct – which Borough President Eric Adams criticized as preposterous, because the city has a sanitation department – to appoint more city workers Annual for $ 37 million.
“He’s spending like a drunken sailor and leaving it to the next mayor,” Carol Callerman, former chairman of the Citizens Budget Commission, which oversees the independent budget, told The Post.
City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) warned that we need to spend every dollar wisely in order to emerge from the epidemic.
The mayor and city council must agree to the budget by the beginning of the fiscal year on 1 July.
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