FINDING THE MAYOR GILDY

There he goes again. Mayor de Blasio never met a problem he didn’t throw money at, and the deeply troubled child-welfare agency is no exception.

The new boss, David Hansell, was brought in to clean up the mess, but, like all de Blasio hires, he brings a gold-plated broom.

Hansell told City Council members that he has the mayor’s support for change, “including financial support.”

This is classic de Blasio. Wait till a problem gets out of control despite increased spending, fire a commissioner and hire a new one with a pledge to open the spigot to fund reforms that are vague and repetitive of earlier ones.

The pattern happened with the homeless, with failing public schools and now with the Administration for Children’s Services. In each case, solutions are always just around the corner — if the city ponies up another mountain of cash.

In fact, de Blasio probably doesn’t believe his own hype. He’s just buying time by promising reforms that never come, in hopes that voters will give him credit for trying. The only thing that’s real is the rising price for failure.