Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams standing with Mayor Eric Adams, administration officers, and council members as they announce a deal on the Fiscal Yr 2026 adopted price range. Friday, June 27, 2025.
Picture by Lloyd Mitchell
The Metropolis Council unanimously voted on Monday to cross an almost $116 billion municipal price range deal for the upcoming fiscal 12 months that makes lots of the investments in very important metropolis providers for which lawmakers have lengthy pushed.
The spending plan, introduced by Mayor Eric Adams and Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (who usually are not associated) in a handshake deal final Friday, handed the 51-member physique unanimously. Not like in previous years, the council’s left-flank members largely voted for the price range, given its motion away from Hizzoner’s spending cuts and towards boosting funding for a slew of schooling, cultural, and public security applications.
The spending plan is full of practically $2 billion in extra spending, which goes towards standing up new metropolis applications and elevating funding ranges for a lot of different present ones. It provides wins to each Mayor Adams as he vies for reelection as an impartial in opposition to presumed Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani — a democratic socialist Queens Meeting member — and council leaders who’ve lengthy fought for increasing spending in lots of areas.
“The successes in this year’s budget are the product of multi-year efforts built upon a foundation of relentless advocacy by this council, together with New Yorkers across our entire city,” Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams stated forward of the vote on her final price range as speaker. “While there is more work ahead, this shows that together, we can build a city where the budget reflects all of our needs, where families can afford not just to survive, but live and flourish right here.”
Many council members framed the spending plan each as a repudiation of the mayor’s previous spending cuts and President Trump’s effort to slash billions of {dollars} from public help applications like Medicaid and Social Safety within the federal price range. Progressive Council Member Tiffany Cabán (D-Queens) additionally forged the price range as a transfer towards a “new era,” doubtless a reference to Mamdani’s potential tenure as the following mayor.
“New Yorkers are clearly demanding a new kind of politics,” Cabán stated earlier than casting her “yes” vote. “A politics that chooses affordability for working people over the interests of the rich. Today’s budget sets us up to deliver for New Yorkers under a new administration that shares our values and commitments come January.”
The spending plan boasts allocations comparable to $54 million in new funding for immigrant authorized providers; $2 million to increase Sunday service at 10 extra public library branches; $10 million to launch a pilot baby care program for youngsters two years and youthful; and $6.1 million to create a Division of Sustainable Supply to supervise and regulate e-bikes.
The immigrant authorized service funding is aimed toward strengthening protections for newcomers, because the Trump administration has ramped up its aggressive mass deportation operation in latest weeks.
“I’m proud of the wins we have landed, especially for our immigrant communities,” stated Council Immigration Chair Alexa Avilés (D-Brooklyn) earlier than casting her “yes” vote. “Though the Adams administration continues to fail to recognize the crisis of violence and mass deportation before us, this council has stood up and demanded more.”
Avilés was presumably referring to Mayor Adams’ reluctance to criticize Trump’s immigration agenda and willingness to work with federal immigration authorities on felony issues.
Moreover, it consists of $112 million in recurring funding for town’s common pre-Okay and 3-Okay applications; funds to make sure the NYPD can increase its ranks again to 35,000 officers; and $5 million to increase entry to the FairFares half-priced MetroCard program to these making 150% of the federal poverty degree.
One space the place the price range drew some criticism was round its funding for town’s Parks Division. Parks advocates say the plan solely consists of funding to fill roughly one-fourth of practically 800 division positions minimize by Mayor Adams, which implies about 600 will stay unfilled.
“The administration is ignoring the calls and dedicated advocacy of the City Council, union workers, hard-working volunteers, non-profit partners, environmental advocates, and every day New Yorkers who have been demanding the restoration of 795 previously cut and urgently needed parks workers in the budget,” stated the group New Yorkers for Parks and NYLCV in a press release on behalf of the Play Truthful for Parks Coalition.
