Opponents of Mayor Eric Adams’ recently-enacted deep budget cuts got the chance to push back against them on Monday at a City Council hearing, stressing the reductions will decimate vital services and the city has enough revenue to stave off some of the damage.
Council members stressed the potential impact of Adams’ wide-ranging latest 5% budget cuts — enacted last month and totaling $3.7 billion — during a tense hours-long session and preceding rally on Dec. 11. They highlighted the many ways in which the broad spending reductions would curtail city services such as litter basket collection, public library hours and early childhood education.
