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Kelly Responds to NYPD Cuts
by Lisa Chow
NEW YORK, NY January 25, 2008 —REPORTER: Mayor Bloomberg has rolled out a $58.5 billion budget plan, featuring cuts throughout city government, including the Education and Police Departments.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says the reductions are manageable.
KELLY: Budget cuts are necessary. You never like them. It's uncertain times, but I think the public won't see a diminishment of services.
REPORTER: The mayor's cuts will amount to a savings of nearly $1.5 billion this year and next.
Bloomberg portrayed the cuts as ones that will improve efficiency, not hurt services.
As a way to affect the other side of the equation and raise revenue, the Parks Department has proposed selling naming rights to corporations at major sites around the city.