Governmental inefficiency, budget bloat and bureaucratic dysfunction: It's all part of what for years has led to an outdated system that Mayor Eric Adams says is no longer delivering for New Yorkers.

"Tax payers are just not getting their money's worth," Adams told reporters on Wednesday at City Hall. 

Adams signed an executive order to create a new Office of Technology and Innovation. 

The new agency will merge several technology focused agencies like 311, the mayor's office of technology, analytics and the cybercommand under one big umbrella. 

Matt Fraser, the deputy commissioner for Technology and Information, will lead the overhaul.

Cutting out government waste was a campaign promise of Adams, and now as budget season gets into full swing he's drawing battle lines on exactly how he will approach it.

Adams has ordered all city agencies to come up with a plan to cut government spending by 3% across the board. That budget maneuver is known as a "PEG" or program to eliminate the gap.

But Adams also acknowledged Wednesday some departments, like the NYPD and the city's hospital system, may be exempt from that requirement. 

"We are looking at that, we are looking at some agencies like health and hospitals that we could hold harmless for the PEG," Adams said. "It's not too many, I can tell you that." 

Instead, when it comes to the NYPD, Adams wants to focus on deployment. 

"I show up to a school, to a community visit, there's 10 officers waiting there. For what? To say, ‘Mr. Mayor we're here.’ I don't need you here, I need you on patrol," Adams said. "You want to impress me? Have that display in Brownsville, have that display in Brownsville, have it in Harlem."

The city budget grew significantly under the previous administration due in part to a massive growth in headcount. Mayor Adams will have to present his preliminary budget proposal over the next few weeks, it will be the first of his tenure.