Zohran Mamdani: “Chief Savings officers, or CSOs, have a simple remit…”

“That means finding savings across city government, reducing bureaucratic waste, and rendering agencies more efficient and cost effective. That is why I signed an executive order establishing a chief savings officer in every city agency. Chief Savings officers, or CSOs, have a simple remit identifying savings within the agencies they serve. They will consolidate redundancies in source programs that have been outsourced to bloated consultant contracts and eliminate extraneous programs.” (07:01–07:09)

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