NYC Councilman David G. Greenfield (D-Brooklyn) is working around the clock to make sure the Fiscal Year 2013 New York City budget, currently being negotiated in the City Council, includes funding for many of the important programs and services that are vital to his district’s families and children and to ensuring public safety. Currently, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed executive budget, many critical programs and initiatives including child care vouchers, early-childhood education, after-school programs, senior services and libraries face huge cuts. Greenfield, who is co-chair of the City Council’s Brooklyn Delegation and a member of the Council’s Budget Negotiating Team, is working with Speaker Christine Quinn, Finance Chairman Domenic Recchia, Jr. and the rest of his City Council colleagues to prevent deep cuts to these important programs and to ensure that the many outstanding charitable organizations that serve his district receive funding.
“It is absolutely critical that our community receives the funding and services it needs and deserves, and I am working hard to make sure that happens. Each year, vital programs that my district’s families and schools rely on are targeted for cuts in the Mayor’s budget, and I am fighting alongside my colleagues to restore funding for those critical areas,” said Greenfield.
Since the release of Mayor Bloomberg’s executive budget in May, Greenfield has been working with the rest of the City Council to restore funding in the most critical areas. The City Council is still pushing back against huge cuts to child care programs contained in the Mayor’s proposed budget, which has eliminated 47,000 slots in child care and after-school programs. This includes necessary funding for Priority 5 vouchers that benefit many yeshiva parents.
“These cuts to vital child care programs are unacceptable. We cannot continue to balance the budget on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens, as the Mayor’s proposal does. I will continue to fight during budget negotiations to restore this funding,” added Greenfield.
The final budget agreement is expected within the next week.
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I applaud Greefield for looking out for his constituents but hopefully, he will fight as strongly to reduce taxes for all New Yorkers. If he is going to push to spend more money, he should say where that money should come from. The city is running a massive deficit, it is underfunding its pension programs and overstating its expected tax revenues, especially from the financial sector. Greenfield and his colleagues need to stop “demanding” money for their mosdos without explainging how they will fund each of these programs.
This article seems a little biased. I think,from a journalistic point of view, it could have presented the facts in a more straight forward manner, without seeming to endorse any specific candidate. what do you think?