The mayor may delay his executive budget proposal while he awaits billions of dollars in potential Albany aid.
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The mayor may delay his executive budget proposal while he awaits billions of dollars in potential Albany aid.
By Nick Garber

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has less than a week to release an updated spending plan for the coming year. That's a tall task when, for the third year in a row, the state is weeks late in approving its own budget, leaving a multibillion-dollar question mark for the city.

Given that uncertainty, Mamdani’s administration has begun discussing whether to delay his executive budget past its May 1 due date, according to two sources familiar with the matter, who were granted anonymity to describe the private talks. That postponement would need to be approved by the City Council.

The state’s April 1 budget deadline is structured so that local governments know how much aid they will get from Albany when they compile their own budgets for the next fiscal year.

Michaelle Solages, who chairs the state Assembly’s Committee on Local Governments, said the delays have fueled increasing concern from localities across the state, many of which face a May 19 deadline to approve their school budgets for the school year that begins in September.

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