Migrants arriving from Mission and McAllen, Texas, are greeted by volunteers at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on May 17, 2023. While those three agencies are exempt, Jiha wrote in his missive that the administration is implementing another, even more drastic belt-tightening initiative on top of the January PEG that’s specifically aimed at cutting costs related to caring for newly-arrived migrants. Agencies must submit their plans for how to meet the January PEG target by Dec. To that end, Jiha wrote the administration will proceed with implementing another 5% city government-wide spending trim in January via a so-called Program to Eliminate the Gap, or PEG. While all agencies managed to come up with plans to meet the 5% spending reduction target from September, the administration “must do more” to rein in cost as the city’s still staring down a $7.1 billion deficit for the 2025 fiscal year, which starts July 1, Jiha wrote in the memo, a copy of which was obtained by the Daily News. Migrants are seen sleeping outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on July 31, 2023. It comes days after the Adams administration rolled out the mayor’s November financial plan modification, which would enact deep budget cuts across all agencies as part of a 5% city government-wide spending reduction first ordered in September due to migrant crisis-related fiscal concerns. The memo, penned by Jacques Jiha, Adams’ budget director, was sent to all agency heads Monday morning. Mayor Adams will spare the NYPD, the FDNY and the Sanitation Department from another planned round of budget cuts - but is ordering his administration to figure out a way to slash $2.1 billion in projected spending on housing and services for newly-arrived migrants, according to a new memo from City Hall.
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