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DeB’s new nightlife agency

The City That Never Sleeps meets the Government That Always Grows.

Mayor de Blasio went to a funky Brooklyn nightclub Tuesday night to sign a bill creating a new city agency — the Office of Nightlife, to oversee clubs and cabarets.

Despite the presence of community boards and the city’s own Department of Small Business Services, the mayor believes another layer of government is needed to deal with quality-of-life issues and to help keep struggling clubs from going under.

“It’s pretty shocking — one in five small businesses have been lost in the last couple of decades in New York City,” said de Blasio during a bill-signing event at the House of YES in Bushwick featuring legendary punk drummer Marky Ramone of The Ramones.

“And one of the big reasons was it was hard to navigate the rules and restrictions that in so many cases went too far,” Hizzoner added

The Office of Nightlife will have an annual budget of $407,000 — including $370,000 to pay a yet-tobe-named director and deputy.

They will work with a 12-person Nightlife Advisory Board to help clubs navigate the approval process for licenses and permits, review neighborhood complaints, make policy recommendations and advise City Hall on trends impacting the industry.

Eight of those board members will be appointed by the City Council speaker and four by the mayor. Each will serve a two-year term.

Councilman Rafael Espinal (D-Brooklyn), the bill’s lead sponsor, said he pushed for the legislation because some community boards are too quick to take steps to put nightclubs out of business after receiving complaints.

“If we’re going to remain the City That Never Sleeps, we need this,” Espinal told The Post.

“The new office is a going to serve as a bridge between the nightlife establishments, residents and government.”

He said the office is modeled after a similar program in Amsterdam, Holland

But members of Manhattan Community Board 3, which represents the nightlife hotbed of the East Village, say they’re concerned the new agency and advisory board will cater to the club industry.

The board passed a resolution in July ripping the bill, saying, “Community boards are generally the front line in receiving complaints resulting from nightlife establishments and work with city agencies” to address them.

More than 20 percent of the city’s smaller music venues have closed over the past 15 years amid noise complaints, skyrocketing real-estate prices and licensing issues, according to the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment.