And third, the absence of systematic annual efficiency reviews has limited the city's ability to tighten operations in a disciplined way. We're facing our largest budget gap since the Great According to the Comptroller's estimates, The gaps the Adams administration left behind were not only more than double what had been publicly projected just months earlier. they were more than three times higher than the pre Covid 10 year average and exceeded even the deficits we faced during the Great Recession. (06:11–06:18)
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Asserts that the budget gaps left by the Adams administration were more than double the publicly projected figures.
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