Mayor Eric Adams.
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Over the past 4 years, the Adams administration has delivered 4 on-time, balanced, and fiscally accountable budgets. This 12 months, we continued our file of robust fiscal administration with a $115.9 billion Adopted Funds. This file of feat was constructed on the Fiscal 12 months 2026 Govt Funds, typically referred to as the “Best Budget Ever.” And earlier this month, we up to date the finances with much more investments that may proceed to maintain our communities protected, enhance high quality of life, make our metropolis extra inexpensive, and help our younger individuals and older New Yorkers.
Security is the agency basis on which all different achievements are constructed, and the November Plan gives extra funding to place us on observe to extend the NYPD’s uniformed headcount by 5,000 officers — bringing the entire variety of officers to 40,000 within the subsequent three years. This can be a huge new funding in our metropolis’s public security efforts and a part of our plan to maintain New York Metropolis America’s most secure huge metropolis within the years to return.
By means of the November Plan, we additionally introduced a brand new mannequin for our metropolis’s emergency psychological well being crises groups, generally known as B-HEARD. Going ahead, our B-HEARD groups can be run fully by NYC Well being + Hospitals, altering the present mannequin, which companions with the FDNY. This can enable our FDNY EMTs to give attention to different emergency responses as a part of our metropolis’s efforts to enhance ambulance response instances and use our sources extra effectively, whereas nonetheless addressing psychological well being emergencies and permitting them to scale sooner or later.
Moreover, we took this chance to extend funding for different public security wants, together with our quality-of-life response operation on the Bronx Hub, our efforts to stop Legionnaire’s Illness, and rising staffing within the Bronx and Brooklyn District Attorneys’ Places of work.
Furthermore, the November Plan focuses on making our metropolis extra inexpensive by placing extra money again in New Yorkers’ pockets. We’re rising funding for rental help to the town’s 60,000 households who use CityFHEPS vouchers and investing extra in our metropolis’s shelter system. We’re additionally increasing the New York Metropolis Division for the Getting older’s Caregiver program to help a further 3,000 contributors who care for his or her family members. We’re persevering with to assist pay loans for struggling taxi drivers, reinstating weekend ferry service between Brooklyn and Governors Island in the course of the 2026 Might via October excessive season, and reimbursing house owners of certified properties who bought wheelie trash bins as a part of our ‘Trash Revolution.’
The November Plan additionally helps our younger individuals and their schooling by funding the prices of offering 350,000 Chromebooks for our public-school college students, in addition to rising staffing and programming for the Adams administration’s “After-School for All” growth to offer common after-school programming to all households who want it.
These are just some of the various enhancements and investments our November Plan is delivering for our metropolis. The choices we’re making on this finances had been guided by my very own lived expertise, and the struggles I noticed my mom undergo as I used to be rising up. Dorothy Mae Adams labored three jobs simply to place meals on the desk for me and my 5 siblings — and he or she may have used a serving to hand. Put merely, our metropolis as soon as betrayed working individuals, however we’ve got refused to permit that to proceed beneath our administration.
So, that is the finances she wanted and the finances so many New Yorkers right this moment nonetheless want right this moment. This finances isn’t some summary set of numbers; it’s a assertion about what we worth and the way we’re investing within the working-class individuals of New York Metropolis — protecting them protected, making the 5 boroughs extra inexpensive, defending high quality of life, and ensuring that is one of the best place to dwell and lift a household.
