“Now that we’ve had a chance to study the budget documents carefully there are two items in the budget that are not fair to New York City, that will be harmful to New York City, that will set us back and will particularly set back our students at CUNY and will set back the people of this city in terms of healthcare”, de Blasio said at an unrelated press conference in Queens.
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With the mayor’s signature, the recommendations of the Quadrennial Advisory Commission will go before the City Council.
Cuomo said the plan was to make spending more efficient.
Governor Cuomo is proposing $10 billion for 100,000 permanent affordable units across the state and $10 billion more for 6,000 new supported beds, 1,000 emergency shelter beds and other homeless services over the next five years. “We will continue to keep up the pace as we look to foster the affordability and diversity of our neighborhoods and communities”.
De Blasio also dismissed that idea.
The city recently increased the number of shelter beds by 50 percent and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority has create a map of homeless encampments that can be used during the storms, Curry said.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to have the city pay hundreds of millions more to fund Medicaid and CUNY was both “unprecedented” and “unfair”, and the city would fight the plan “by any means necessary”, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.
The city has seen larger-than-expected tax revenues in recent years, but Mr.de Blasio warned that it needs to stow away copious funds in the event of another recession-which he claimed struggling stock markets across the globe make a real possibility. But in NY state, localities also bear part of the cost.
Under the abandoned plan, the state wouldn’t have assumed a projected increase in the city’s Medicaid costs.
“At the end of the day, it won’t cost New York City a penny”, he said.
Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, the head of the City Council’s finance committee, said her teams of budget experts were still trying to assess the impact of potential cuts from the state to the city’s budget.
In the 2014 state fiscal year, the federal government paid $24.8 billion of the cost of New York state’s program, while the state paid $21.4 billion and localities paid $8.5 billion, with most of that sum coming from New York City.
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An additional $485 million in annual costs associated with City University of NY would be shifted from the state, under the fiscal 2017 budget as proposed by Mr. Cuomo Wednesday.
