Budget Shortfall Forces NYPD to Cancel January Recruit Class
NEW YORK CITY
The city is going to cut the work force by 3,000 – including some 500 layoffs – and cancel January’s Police Academy class to deal with a two-year budget gap that has grown from $2.3 billion to $4 billion, an administration official said yesterday.
The official said Mayor Bloomberg plans to announce other belt-tightening measures to conserve $1.5 billion over the next two fiscal years, including slashing the training regimen for new firefighters from 23 to 18 weeks and reducing the nighttime operational hours at five engine companies in firehouses that also are staffed with ladder companies.
The layoffs, the first since 2003, would hit hardest at the Department of Education, where 475 jobs are getting whacked within the central administration, including 219 through layoffs.
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