The administration wanted to move financing for the scientific research to the National Science Foundation, the official said, because it has a strong reputation for allocating money to the most worthy projects.
But that increase would be more than offset by a $9.6 million cut in money for repairs and restorations, a $20 million cut in the construction budget and the plan to move financing for the three research institutes to the National Science Foundation.
But last year, Mr. de Blasio's administration, eager to keep a lid on water and sewer rates that had grown by an average of 8percentt annually under Mr. Bloomberg, moved financing for the third tunnel to other projects, Amy Spitalnick, a de Blasio spokeswoman, said.
"Another thing I was unfamiliar with before moving into finance were the 'clean-ups'; rounds of redundancy.
Christine P. Katziff, Bank of America's general auditor, and Eileen Serra, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase's credit card division, worked at top consulting firms before moving into finance.
To save money, the company is also moving some finance and processing jobs to India, where American Express already employs about 1,000 people.
The main priority for us was moving our finance system to the cloud as our current application was holding the business back.
Asavabhokin is moving into finance and plans to offer housing and personal loans.
Following him into the Norwegian Labour Party, his economist son took a different path, becoming minister of industry and energy in 1993 before moving to finance in 1996.
Ms. Conrad pointed to the disparity to justify moving the financing to the cities because, she said, that is where the children are.
