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Discussion on NYPD overtime reduction and budget savings
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Council Member Crystal Hudson inquires about the NYPD's overtime reduction goals and projected savings. NYPD representatives, including Deputy Commissioner Kristine Ryan and Commissioner Jessica Tisch, provide details on current and future overtime spending projections.
- The NYPD projects a reduction from $1.23 billion to $1.1 billion in overtime spending for the current fiscal year.
- The department aims to continue reducing overtime in the next fiscal year through effective resource management.
- Commissioner Tisch expresses confidence that next fiscal year's overtime will be lower than the current year's due to improved management practices.
Crystal Hudson
2:43:35
Question about overtime.
2:43:36
In your testimony, you mentioned reductions in overtime, including a combined savings of $40,400,000 over the just the first four months of 2025 compared to last year, and you've also stated that none of this has come at the expense of public safety.
2:43:49
Do you have a goal in terms of the amount you're trying to reduce overtime or the cost of overtime by?
2:43:55
Or is there a specific number by which you're aiming to reduce overtime?
Olufunmilola Obe
2:43:59
So essentially, if we had continued on
Kristine Ryan
2:44:01
the trajectory we were going, estimate that we would have spent over $1,200,000,000 about $1,230,000,000 in fiscal year twenty twenty five.
2:44:11
And our projection right now, obviously there's still a month left in the fiscal year, is that we will be about 1,100,000,000.0.
Crystal Hudson
2:44:20
So That you will be 1,100,000,000.0 over?
Kristine Ryan
2:44:24
No.
2:44:24
Oh, under?
2:44:25
No.
2:44:25
That the total spend would be 1,100,000,000.0 versus 1.23.
2:44:30
We were on a trajectory for For the for the 1,230,000,000.00, and that did not include in the first half of the year the additional transit initiatives that we took on the second half of the year.
2:44:40
So that's incorporating with this additional allocation of resources, which is partially on overtime, still being able to bring that number down by about a hundred and $30,000,000 from what we project it would have been had we not put these efforts in place to manage the overtime more effectively.
Crystal Hudson
2:44:56
So is that the goal, reduction by 130?
Kristine Ryan
2:44:59
From what we were projecting, yes.
Crystal Hudson
2:45:01
Okay.
2:45:02
And that's the goal for this fiscal?
Kristine Ryan
2:45:04
Correct.
Crystal Hudson
2:45:04
And what will the goal be for next fiscal?
Kristine Ryan
2:45:06
So we are working right now with the Office of Management and Budget internally to look at what we think that will be.
2:45:12
I mean, objective is obviously to continue what we've been doing and to continue to see those reductions and to continue to see the most effective use of our resources.
2:45:23
So I don't have that number yet, but I anticipate that we'll be working to keep it as tight as possible.
Jessica Tisch
2:45:30
If we continue to do what we are do what we've been doing since January in terms of management of overtime, it is somewhat inconceivable that overtime next fiscal year will be higher than this fiscal year just because the first six months of the year, there was so much spending.
Crystal Hudson
2:45:55
Great.
2:45:56
That's good news.
2:45:57
If the chairs will allow, I'd like one more question.
2:46:00
Thank you.