NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to Furlough Himself, 494 City Employees

Breitbart ^ | 09/16/2020 | Nate Church

[ChicagoConservative27]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he will furlough himself and his entire staff on Wednesday, in the midst of a $9 billion loss in revenue. Last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio warned the NYC that he may be forced to lay off as many as 22,000 local government employees in October due to billions in sales tax and other sources of city revenue lost during the global coronavirus pandemic. Fortunately, that plan was put on hold.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Does this mean include his wife and her staff of 11 or whatever the number is. I think she had a baking show also funded by tax payers.

[tired&retired]

For Blasio, this probably means with pay during time off.

[unixfox]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he will furlough himself and his entire staff on Wednesday...

Hey everybody, it's vacation time! No need to worry, you WILL get paid! Party on!

[bgill]

This year he’s blaming the deficit on the virus. What’s his excuse for all the previous years of deficits?

[Don@VB]

How will they get along without him?

[Army Air Corps]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he will furlough himself and his entire staff on Wednesday, ...

So, the mayor's own staff numbers nearly 500 people?

[angmo]

9 billion bucks. LOL. Will be 500 billion before this clown is done.

[Liz]

Despite a Massive Budget Crisis in NYC, Mayor de Blasio's
Wife Maintains a Staff That Comes With a Shocking Price Tag
PJ Media ^ | 08/20/2020 | Rick Moran FR Posted on 8/20/2020, 10:39:50 AM by SeekAndFind

New York City is in the midst of a massive budget crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The city is facing layoffs of 22,000 city workers, the trash isn’t getting picked up, the parks aren’t being maintained. But Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, maintains a staff of 14 and has a budget of $2 million. McCray is a professional activist, meaning she’s a pro at squeezing money out of politicians. She got her soulmate Bill to give her $1.25 billion for a mental health initiative she called ThriveNYC. That was five years ago. So how’s that program working?

No one really knows because McCray apparently can’t keep track of the money.

New York Post: First lady Chirlane McCray’s ThriveNYC unveiled a splashy new website Monday purporting to show the $1.25 billion plan has “dramatically improved the landscape of mental health services in New York City over the last five years.” But a closer look at geocoded maps and colorful bar graphs in the “Data Dashboard” reveals missing metrics for over two-thirds of the programs, no advancements for about half of the initiatives and a major decrease in services badly needed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

And there’s only six months worth of data for the nearly five-year-old program.

You mean she has to keep track of the money? I guess no one told her. Her staff has doubled in size since 2018, including the addition of a videographer.

Fox News: They include the $70,000 videographer McCray brought on in February. The shooter, who is listed as a Department of Health employee in city records, filmed the first lady making ginger snaps on April 2 during the coronavirus lockdown.

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Other members of the shadow staff who participated in a “Team Lunch” in The Bronx in January 2019, according to McCray’s public schedule, are a $143,000-a-year public relations director, also from the Department of Health, and a special assistant from the mayor’s office who makes $115,000. Then there’s the $130,000 “executive program specialist” from the Dept. of Social Services and $65,000 “associate director of advance” to the first lady.

Sources at the Mayor's Office saidthe mayor's wife also has at least another six staff who are not named
on the official public roster. Her total workforce numbers 14 with a hefty price tag of $2 million.

McRay's pricey team includes $150,000-a-year senior adviser Dabash Negash (pictured) recruited in April
- at the height of the pandemic, just one week after de Blasio announced a hiring freeze to help close a $7.4 billion budget deficit.

These two have city money pouring in......faster than they can find places to hide it.

DeBlob put his wife in charge of four (4) govt-funded agencies that have the most potential for looting

(A) <><> mental health reform (she "forgot" where she put $800 million tax dollars)

(B) <><> coronavirus racial equity agency.....

(C) <><> heads the tax-funded Mayor’s Task Force on Racial Inclusion

(D) <><> Upon taking office, he gave her "The Mayor's Fund for NYC" which receives non-stop tax dollars to
"do-good" for the city (and to finance their political ambitions).

THERE IS NO OVERSIGHT----the DeBlobbios can loot and pillage tax dollars at will.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Chirlane McCray (Mrs. De B) enjoys $2M staff of 14 amid NYC budget crisis

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chirlane-mccray-enjoys-2m-staff-of-14-amid-nyc-budget-crisis

[mewzilla]

Here's a guess....

Where has $850m gone? Bill de Blasio's wife can't account for staggering amount of taxpayer money that the NY Mayor gave her for mental health project

[FatherofFive]

That will work if those 495 make about $18,000,000 each.

[Reno89519]

Hopefully he lacks the authority to rehire himself. Who’s going to take over as mayor once he affectively resigns?

[Magnatron]

Somehow, I doubt the government paychecks will be stopping. This is for show.

[W.]

With pay, indeed! Heaven forfend they do so much as breathe without being overpaid to do so...

[Flick Lives]

9 billion / 494 = $18,218,623

Unless those are extremely well compensated employees, I think they’re going to have to make a few more cuts.

[SkyDancer]

And will get paid of course.

[texas_mrs]

I think when he was told to “go F yourself” they didn’t mean “furlough”.