NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) -- Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a $111.6 billion budget plan Wednesday that restores funding for the NYPD and New York City schools.
However, the executive budget plan still includes a $58 million cut to New York City's library systems. Library officials have warned that the budget cuts will impact spending on library materials, programming, and building maintenance and repairs.
"The $58.3M in cuts that Libraries are facing, if enacted, threaten to upend much of the progress we’ve made over the past few years, and will severely impact vulnerable communities who need our services the most," library leaders said on Wednesday. "We’ve already lost seven-day service city-wide, and are looking at most branches being open for only five days a week should these cuts go through."
Mayor Adams joined PIX11 News on Thursday to respond to criticisms of the newly proposed budget.
"This is the negotiation part of it," he explained. Adams said that by the end of the negotiation process "everyone will be pleased," with the final result.
Public libraries in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn were forced to close on Sundays after Mayor Eric Adams announced the full list of proposed cuts to city funding in November 2023.
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