The City Council is proposing growing its own budget by more than 10% compared to the previous year — despite Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s warnings about the Big Apple’s massive fiscal gap.

The legislative body’s fiscal year 2027 budget came in at $127 million — up from $115 million in FY26 — fueled primarily by 57 added jobs and new legal and professional contracts, according to projections reviewed by The Post.  

The council’s central staff division would add 39 roles at a cost of $5.74 million. Council services, which include the speaker’s office, would add 18 jobs for a total $4.18 million year over year, the documents said.

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The outlined plan was submitted even as Mamdani has sounded the alarm over what he says is a $5.4 billion budget deficit over two years — arguing he’ll be forced to raise taxes and pull from the city’s savings funds to aid in filling the gap.

City Council Speaker Julie Menin just this week pushed back against Mamdani pulling from the city’s “rainy day fund,” as she said there were a potential $1.7 billion in savings and added revenue the Big Apple could be eyeing instead.

“The Rainy Day Fund was created to help protect New Yorkers during a true fiscal emergency, and has never been tapped,” Menin said in a statement Tuesday. 

A spokesperson for the speaker pointed the finger at the prior administration for “saddling” the new council leader with dozen of hires and raises in the second half of last year and defended the increase as the smallest in recent admins.

“Compared to increases of 24% and 27% in the first year of the last two Council administrations, this represents the smallest first-year Council budget increase in recent memory across multiple speakerships,” the rep said. 

“Speaker Menin is deeply committed to fiscal responsibility, and the Council’s budget reflects key priorities, including the creation of a new economic development office focused on urgently needed job creation and strengthening New York City’s economy.”

The added employees, which include two new hires for both the speaker and Minority Leader David Carr, account for nearly 10% of the council’s projected total FY27 budget. 

Additional roles included 12 new administrative employees, 11 to the committee on human and social services and 17 to the infrastructure committee.  

A source close to the speaker noted that Menin separately increased individual council members’ budgets by $64,000 each — a total of 3.2 million — “to give them more resources to be flexible and meet constituents’ needs.”

Despite the boost, progressive council members were still angling for a pay raise when they passed legislation Tuesday mandating that the mayor form a commission to review their current compensation every four years. 

The bill passed 46-2 with Menin abstaining, and could result in higher salaries for the members who currently make $148,500 a year. 

Menin is also allocating new funds to build a child care facility for council members, which was reflected in the budget documents. 

Though the spokesperson did not immediately share the total cost of the childcare center, they noted it was accounted for under the personnel services budget line, which increased by over $300,000 for FY27.