Bryan Smith for New York Daily News
Mayor Bloomberg's $68.7 billion budget, with 42,000 child-care and after-school slots at stake, must be adopted by July 1.
With a deadline looming, the City Council was expected to resume negotiations Sunday over Mayor Bloomberg?s proposed $68.7 billion budget.
?By July 1, we need to have an adopted budget, so it could happen at any time,? said Jamie McShane, a spokesman for Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
On the line are more than 42,000 child care and afterschool slots for families who qualify for the city?s financial aid.
For the fourth year in a row, fire companies are also on the block.
Public libraries, cultural institutions and services for senior citizens and for New Yorkers with AIDS remain at risk as lawmakers wrangle over a finalized spending plan for the next fiscal year.
The Council was expected to use some funds it controls to restore some of Bloomberg?s proposed cuts.
Dozens of lobbyists crowded the typically quiet City Hall entry this past week, waiting to catch a word with a City Council member heading into negotiations.
Many said they?d be back at City Hall Sunday to resume talks.
?The mayor can and should stop the dance by providing sufficient funds for nonprofits serving low-income New Yorkers, and by demanding that banks and the wealthy pay their fair share,? said Patrick Markee, senior policy analyst with the Coalition for the Homeless.
Bloomberg?s budget includes $1 billion in revenue from selling 2,000 new yellow-taxi medallions, but the proposal has been stalled by a court challenge.
The medallions are part of Bloomberg's plan to expand taxi service in the outer borough?s and northern Manhattan.
The budget agreement is usually sealed with a handshake a few days before the July 1 deadline.
tmoore@nydailynews.com
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