Agencies will now have to jump through a series of bureaucratic hoops to get simple spending greenlit, further bottlenecking day-to-day operations.
The Adams administration is stripping city agencies of their discretionary spending powers — in the latest attempt by the mayor to balance the Big Apple’s books with the impending migrants-fueled $12 billion shortfall, The Post has learned.
“It could be like the coffee guy or someone who delivers water… It’s so vague,” a City Hall source who reviewed the plan said referring to freezing all general contracts. The directive sent out on Tuesday by the Office of Budget Management halts nearly all non-salary spending until next summer as part of theMayor Adams says the city will need to cut its budget by 15% by next year to account for the migrant crisis.
The process though will take up to 10 days for expenses already covered by grants and up to 21 days for all others.Nearly 60,000 migrants are in the city’s care currently.“Freezing spending in specific object codes is a pretty specific spending control that the city hasn’t typically done,” said Ana Champeny, one of the top budget analysts at the Citizens Budget Commission.
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