NEW YORK CITY’S 650-lawyer Corporation Counsel’s Office escaped relatively unscathed in the preliminary budget outlined by Mayor Bloomberg to cope with a Sept. 11-driven $4.8 million budget deficit.
The proposed austerity budget contains a 3.8 percent cut for the Corporation Counsel’s Office, lowering its annual funding to $93 million, according to City Budget Director Mark Page. That was less than the reductions the Mayor announced yesterday in the budgets of 17 major agencies, which went as deep as 26 percent for the City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
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