Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Queen) and the Council want Mayor Eric Adams to increase expense funding for housing and homelessness by more than $250 million annually and to pump up the city’s capital funding allocation by a whopping $4 billion.
Mayor Adams pledged to make vocational training for foster care children a “hallmark” of his administration as he rolled out a new program on Tuesday aimed at giving the vulnerable kids a better shot at entering the city’s workforce.
Gov. Hochul, New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx), and New York Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) are spending the weekend hashing out differences and seeking budget compromises before the April 1 deadline.
Adams, who already dropped the mask requirement for K-12 students on March 7, told reporters at City Hall that, come April 4, kids younger than 5 won’t need to wear face coverings in school, either with the caveat that he may reconsider the move in the event of a COVID-19 surge.