Mayor de Blasio’s plan to increase the size of the city’s workforce—particularly adding 1,297 cops and 415 civilians to the Police Department—is a recipe for financial problems in future years, a conservative budget-watchdog group said last week.
“The headcount additions require that revenues continue to grow faster than projected to keep the budget balanced,” the business-funded Citizens Budget Commission said in a report released Aug. 4. “The new police officers are particularly expensive in future years owing to their salary growth and their high pension-fund-contribution rates.”
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