NYC agencies have been asked for plans to cut $550 million from this year’s budget and between 1.2 billion from next years budget,” NBCNewYork.com is reporting.  Uniformed agencies – cops and fireman – and the Department of Education will face a duller budget axe, with smaller cuts expected.  Other city agencies will have to cut deeper, according to Office Management and Budget memo obtained by NBCNewYork.com.

The new cuts would come on top of $3-plus billion dollars in cuts already enacted.

Today’s news comes just minutes before Albany lawmakers are scheduled to convene to address the state’s $3-billion budget deficit. The timing may not be a coincidence.  So far there is no deal on how to close the state budget gap but State cuts could leave NYC at least an additional billion dollars in the hole.

(Source: NBC New York)