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December 8, 2008
Atlantic Yards YES! A lot of other stuff NO!!
The cuts just keep on comin' — except to Bruce Ratner's massively subsidized Atlantic Yards project.
WNYC News Radio, City Council Identifies $495M in Cuts
All totaled [City Council Speaker Christine] Quinn says the proposed cuts will save a half-billion dollars in fiscal years '09 and '10. They include saving $6 million by having teachers perform jury duty only on summer vacations and close to $14 million by not picking up grass clippings. She hopes these proposals will reduce pressure to cut spending at the neighborhood school level and thaw a hiring freeze on the police department.
Also this week the Council is expected to move ahead with a one-percent hotel tax increase that could generate another $70 million this year and double that in 2010. Still to be settled when, or if, homeowners get the $400 rebate checks they were promised.
NoLandGrab: Maybe city residents can cart their grass clippings over to some of those many empty lots Bruce Ratner has created in Prospect Heights.
Posted by eric at December 8, 2008 12:50 PM