Since 2007, Mayor Bloomberg has spent $722 million replacing paper time cards with biometric hands scanners for city employees, but now he's admitted that "CityTime" has "been a disaster." Not only has he spent more than ten times what what was planned on the new computer system, it's still only a third done! Still, he doesn't know how to fix the problem, and when asked who should be held accountable he named the wrong official. "Ed's spent, it's an incalculable amount of time over the last few years looking at it, and you know, he's still trying to figure out," Bloomberg said, turning to Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler. "You want to add anything to that?" "No," said Skyler, who is not in charge of the project.

"It's been a disaster. It is one of these massive computer projects that very seldom ever is successful," said Bloomberg. Comptroller John Liu hopes the city can finally stop spending on the new-fangled system. "If the mayor is finally aware of all the problems with CityTime, that's a good sign, because we can't afford to waste any more money on it." According to the Daily News, more than a dozen consultants employed by Office of Payroll Administration Director Joel Bondy, the project's actual boss, made over $300,000 each last year.