Buckle up for turbulence!
Budget negotiations remain fraught with tensions between frenemies Mayor Eric Adams and his City Council counterpart Adrienne Adams — despite Hizzoner confidently crowing they’ll land the proverbial plane before a July 1 deadline.
Adrienne Adams, no relation to the mayor, remained coy during a meeting Tuesday about where negotiations had reached, but maintained the council is “committed to restoring cuts” to a laundry list of agencies.
She then committed to a dizzying array of aeronautical metaphors that strongly hinted talks have stalled over the mayor’s proposed $111.6 billion budget for next year.
“We have banked left. We’re in a holding pattern. We’re circling the airport, and if possible, there will be a diversion,” she quipped.
New York City won’t face a full-blown catastrophe if budget talks crash and the city’s burns past the July 1 deadline.
The city simply will revert to the mayor’s most recent proposed budget until a new deal for fiscal year 2025 can be struck.
Such a scenario would not restore $170 million and $58 million in respective cuts to early childhood programs and libraries — two big priorities for many lawmakers, and a key source of contention in the ongoing talks, sources said.
Council members have previously told The Post that there’s still a sizable gap between what they and City Hall officials believe is the city’s current revenue — putting them at odds over minor budgetary lines.
