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Council Member Brannan questions NYPD on overtime spending and budget projections
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Council Member Justin Brannan engages in a Q&A session with Deputy Commissioner Kristine Ryan about NYPD's overtime spending and budget projections. They discuss current overtime expenditures, the effectiveness of implemented initiatives to reduce overtime, and plans to adjust the budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
- NYPD projects $1.1 billion in overtime spending for the current year, down from earlier estimates
- Recent months show consistent reductions in overtime spending compared to the previous year
- Discussions are ongoing with OMB to adjust the FY 2026 budget to more accurately reflect actual spending needs
Justin Brannan
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At the preliminary budget hearing earlier this year, NYPD testified that the projected overtime spending for FY '25 is gonna be approximately 1,230,000,000.00.
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In this plan, $3.00 1,000,000 was added to FY '25 bringing the current OT budget to around a billion dollars.
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So can you update us on the end of year projection for overtime spending?
Kristine Ryan
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Yes.
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So actually based on the overtime management plan that we've put in place and the savings we were seeing year over year, we're now projecting 1,100,000,000 for this year and a portion of that will be grant funding.
Justin Brannan
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How have some of the initiatives that you've implemented affected overtime spending?
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And how does it how does overtime spending currently compare to last year?
Kristine Ryan
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So the last year so essentially, the first half of fiscal year twenty five, as mentioned before, was almost 11% higher than in in 2025 was 11% higher than in 2024.
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What we've seen this year since the implementation of the overtime management plan is consistent month over month reductions.
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January year over year was down 9.7%.
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February was down 10%.
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March was down 13.7% year over year.
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And April was down 15%.
Justin Brannan
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So the FY twenty six OT budget is $578,000,000.
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Dollars Is PD in talks with OMB to right size the FY twenty six budget to more accurately reflect the actual spending?
Kristine Ryan
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Yes.
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We've been having those conversations.
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They've been ongoing.
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We're working with OMB on our fiscal year twenty six projection.
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And we do anticipate there will be adjustments both to reflect the need that we have on the city funded side and also grants as they're awarded throughout the year.
Justin Brannan
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Okay.