Mayor Eric Adams’ budget director, Jacques Jiha, has told the city’s four uniformed agencies — police, fire, sanitation and corrections — to come up with plans to slash their OT costs.
"The mayor will ... issue a directive to implement an overtime reduction initiative for our city’s four uniformed agencies (NYPD, FDNY, DOC/DSNY)," Jiha said in a memo sent to city agencies Saturday "These agencies must submit a plan to reduce year-to-year OT spending."
The uniformed agencies must submit issue monthly reports to City Hall "to track overtime spending and their progress in meeting the reduction target," the memo said.
The order comes as Adams has warned that the recent flood of tens of thousands of asylum seekers into the Big Apple will "destroy" it, including by crippling it financially.
He has said the migrant influx could cost the city $12 billion in the next three years and that Big Apple agencies will have to immediately come up with cuts of 5% — and possibly a total of 15% by spring — although Jia said the more draconian figure would still "only cover two-thirds of our projected asylum costs."