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Speaking at City Hall, de Blasio said the agreement was negotiated in an «atmosphere of partnership and respect.»
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That concern echoes the assessment of DiNapoli's New York City counterpart, Comptroller Scott Stringer, who recently called the contracts the «Achilles heel» of the de Blasio administration, and said budget chaos will ensue if the mayor doesn't reach agreements with the city's labor unions by the end of June.
Moody's Investors Service weighed in today on the nine - year contract deal reached by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYC teachers union, the UFT, saying that while the agreement «could eliminate» fiscal uncertainty by paving the way for other outstanding labor contracts, it also comes at a «large» cost and relies on assumptions that may or may not come to pass.
«There's been regular coordination, both between me and the governor and the state Health Commissioner, the city Health Commisisoner, our staffs in general, very consistent communication, and I think great coordination and great agreement on the course of action,» said de Blasio.
«This agreement marks a huge step forward on our path to closing Rikers Island,» de Blasio said.
De Blasio, speaking with Mark - Viverito in The Bronx, said the changes to the police department under the agreement are «rapid and extraordinary.»
«Per this budget agreement the city will continue to play the primary role in determining the ways to best address those struggling schools,» Mr. de Blasio said.
Despite Albany Republicans saying mayoral control ought to get a full hearing in the Senate, Mr. de Blasio today called the push for mayoral control «a bipartisan agreement if ever we've seen one.»
«We also know that the tentative agreement makes clear that every step of the way, the action is led by the chancellor, and that's what we thought was important here, at each stage of the decision - making process, the chancellor plays a big and shaping role,» Mr. de Blasio said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city can close the notorious Rikers Island complex in less than 10 years, if Albany passes key criminal justice reforms, as he announced an agreement with the City Council to close Rikers and roll out a smaller borough - based jail system.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday his administration had reached disability pension agreements with three municipal unions, deals that raised the amount of money received by employees who are injured on the job.
While de Blasio touted his achievements, lawmakers outside of New York City criticized the agreement saying that the $ 40 million allotted for the remainder of the state to implement full - day pre-kindergarten is inequitable.
But critics of Mr. de Blasio, many of them in agreement with Mr. Lynch's Saturday decree that «blood on the hands starts on the steps of City Hall, in the office of the mayor,» say the city is quite divided under Mr. de Blasio, an observation that polling and anecdotal evidence supports.
De Blasio administration spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein said the city has repeatedly tried to come to an agreement.
«We believe in a parent - friendly, family - friendly approach... to get parents what they need,» de Blasio said during a press conference at City Hall announcing the agreement, which followed threats from New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to pass a law to force the city to streamline the process if the city didn't do so willingly.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- New York City is set to hire nearly 1,300 new police officers as part of its yearly budget agreement, Mayor Bill de Blasio said late Monday.
MIAMI — Miami - Dade County Public Schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho said Thursday he is breaking an agreement with NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to be the city's next schools chancellor, prompting the mayor's press secretary to declare it a «bullet dodged.»
Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted Thursday that he and first lady Chirlane McCray are of one mind on the prospect of eventually shutting down Rikers Island, saying the couple is in «total agreement» in support of the premise.
The collegiality, the respect the communication has deepened, and that is part of why we have such an early agreement this year,» de Blasio said.
De Blasio was en route from the Vatican on Wednesday when the announcement came down, but his first deputy mayor, Tony Shorris, said Uber had agreed to a good - faith, handshake agreement (which is to say it was not written down).
«As we've said, there will be no agreement on additional city funding until the state commits to a simple, fair, and common sense framework that does right by New York City residents, riders and taxpayers,» de Blasio spokeswoman Amy Spitalnick.
De Blasio criticized Bloomberg's handling of the contracts, saying that the city was in «dangerous territory» having its entire workforce in need of labor agreements.
«This agreement marks a huge step forward on our path to closing Rikers Island,» said Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Lynch and the PBA were already incensed at de Blasio over protracted negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement, annoyed with the mayor's move to formally end a police practice called stop - and - frisk (which criminal justice reformers say has been used disproportionately and abusively against young black men), and looking to weaken him by convincing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to sign a bill passed by the legislature that would allow the PBA to all but stifle any efforts by the city to discipline corrupt and incompetent cops.