Ariola explains vote - voting no on budget over mayor's public safety cuts
Council Member Ariola discloses DSNY association, criticizes the mayor for stripping funding for a fifth firefighter, police staffing, and EMS pay while overfunding political projects. She votes no on most budget and finance items, aye on the rest.
Ariola.
I'm disclosing on the record of the council proceedings that the New York City Department of Sanitation is funded in the budget that we are adopting, and my son is associated with that entity.
Permission to explain my vote.
Permission granted.
There are a lot of good things in this budget, and it's a shame that this was tainted by the mayor's betrayal and ideological demands.
Demands which put all New Yorkers in harm's way and will only lead the city down a path to ruin.
His refusal to fund the fifth firefighter in our engine companies, to adequately man our police force, and to raise the pay of our EMS workers, among so many other things, while overfunding his self-serving, politically motivated
agencies and projects is unacceptable and, to be completely honest, downright dangerous.
Not surprisingly, the mayor put ideology over reality in this budget, and for those reasons...
I will vote no on intro 31A, 92A,
Reso 529, Reso 530, 531, 532,
Preconsidered resos 534 and 535.
Preconsidered resos 535.
39, 540, and M69, preconsidered reso 543,
M74, preconsidered reso 544, and M80,
pre-considered reso 545 and M81, as well as pre-considered reso 546 and M82, and I on all the rest.
Clerks, you get that?
Yes, sir.
Thank you.