Kathryn Garcia NYC mayor, Problem Solver Ponders a New Challenge

 Kathryn Garcia NYC mayor, Problem Solver Ponders a New Challenge.

 Mayor Bill de Blasio‘s administration has suffered a big blow.

Department of Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia suddenly announced her resignation Monday, saying she simply can’t stand by while the mayor takes a budget ax to her agency, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported.

With trash piling up and litter baskets overflowing because of the latest round of cuts, Garcia said she’d had enough. And although she didn’t exactly “trash” talk the mayor, she said she didn’t agree with his decision to demand more cuts to her agency.

“I do not want to see my agency decimated,” Garcia said.

In her resignation letter, Garcia called the cuts “unconscionable.” The agency lost 411 positions in the budget that began July 1.

The mayor wanted her to lay off another 750 sanitation workers and 150 civilian employees starting Oct. 1. She said that would be devastating and would result in fewer sanitation workers than during the 2010 Boxing Day blizzard under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, when ambulances, firetrucks and police cars weren’t able to get through unplowed streets.

“It’s likely that we would have no litter basket service and we’d probably only be able to collect refuse once a week for those who get it twice now, and twice a week for those who get it three times, which just means more garbage everywhere. And I think that is not healthy or safe for the city,” Garcia told Kramer.

And with winter only a few months away, de Blasio better not be singing “Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow” because if he goes through with the next round of layoffs he’s going to have a headache of migraine proportions, Kramer reported.

“I would be very concerned about our ability to fight a large storm. You’re asking them to do the impossible,” Garcia said.

She told Kramer that if the city is going to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, be a place people want to live and do business, clean streets are a prerequisite and garbage an impediment.

A spokesman for the mayor said he will name an interim sanitation commissioner shortly and then mount a search for a permanent replacement.

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