New York, NY —

While the budget deal between Mayor Bloomberg and Council Speaker Quinn would save 16 firehouses, 350 civilian NYPD employees are still slated for pink slips. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says he's still negotiating with City Hall to try to restore those positions, so that active duty cops don't have to fill them.

KELLY: So when you take them out of their jobs and put police officers in there it will take police officers time to learn the job. We are losing the skills of our civilian employees and obviously we are losing a uniformed police officer from patrolling the streets of the city.

Both Speaker Quinn and Mayor Bloomberg had pledged not to lay off any police officers. Currently the NYPD is smaller than it's been in years, with several thousand fewer officers than the 40,000 it had in 2001.