Expect more parking tix, motorists

Get ready for a flurry of parking tickets as New York City lawmakers look to defund the police.

The city budget projects $42 million in revenue from extra tickets as part of its plan to change the NYPD’s budget.

The new budget voted on Tuesday calls for 165 NYPD transportation agents to be transferred to “enforcement,” according to a document obtained by the Daily News.

“That’s going to be additional tickets for cars blocking bus lanes or double-parking in a bike lane,” City Council Speaker Corey Johnson said.

Lawmakers are counting on the move to generate millions in revenue even as New Yorkers struggle with coronavirus economic devastation. They’re tabulating that as part of its promise to “defund” the NYPD by $1 billion. Johnson said he doesn’t think the money should be counted as “defunding” the

NYPD.

It’s not the only maneuver lawmakers are using to claim they’re cutting the NYPD budget — an attempt to answer one of the key demands to emerge from recent weeks’ anti-police brutality protests.

The budget counts on reducing police overtime from $523 million that was previously projected to $227 million, said Melanie Hartzog, director of the mayor’s Office of Management and Budget. While similar efforts have faltered in the past, Johnson said the Council will roll out measures to make sure police OT doesn’t get out of control.

The budget transfers school safety officers and crossing guards from the police to the Education Department. That slashes $349.5 million from the NYPD. The budget counts another $133.6 million in health insurance and other costs for those officers as savings for the NYPD — even though those expenses didn’t come out of the police budget to start with.