Staten Island Advance: Bloomberg’s $68.7B budget seems geared to please, but Staten Island Council trio wary
Staten Island Advance: Bloomberg’s $68.7B budget seems geared to please, but Staten Island Council trio wary
Friday, February 03, 2012
By Judy L. Randall
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Proceed with caution.
Staten Island City Council members gave cheers and jeers to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s preliminary $68.7 billion budget plan for Fiscal 2013 yesterday, with no increase in taxes and no layoffs of teachers or uniformed workers, while maintaining long-term investments and reducing the city payroll by a modest 20,000 workers, mainly through attrition.
