Eric Adams is planning a forceful entry into his new role as New York mayor Jan. 1. Two of his immediate goals, he said, are to shrink the growing education budget and institute a broad savings program across all levels of city government.
“I can’t overestimate the fat and mismanagement we have in our budget,” Adams told Crain’s during an interview this week. “When I start to listen to experts, I am just blown away by how much waste, mismanagement and, in some cases, potentially fraud there is.”
Adams said he’ll look first at the Department of Education to stem expanding costs. During Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration,
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