With little leaked so far, it's hard to advance Governor Cuomo's budget message to be delivered today at 1pm in the Egg at Empire State Plaza in Albany.
Locally there has been chatter about prisons, particularly ones in Ogdensburg and Watertown. There are always the single purpose agencies like Tug Hill Commission that attract attention in tight times.
School aid will be a big deal that's easily found in the spending plan.
Much is still unknown with three separate gubernatorial commissions studying ways to cut and reform. Those bodies don't report till March.
There will be some shock and awe...or at least feigned shock and awe...All with an eye towards getting the Legislature to restore, restore, restore....
The presentation is on YNN.
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The truth is that many of the so called "cuts" will be nothing more than reductions in the projected growth rate of spending and not an actual reduction from last year's spending. Cuomo wrote a recent editorial saying that education and medicaid are projected to increase by an astounding 13% this year. That's outrageous. Schools will have to tighten their belts like everyone else. Enough is enough.
Gov Cuomo ALBANY, NY "I applaud the New York State Senate for promptly passing my property tax cap proposal with strong bipartisan support. This measure will provide a real reprieve to homeowners who are struggling to make ends meet. I, along with countless New Yorkers, look forward to this cap becoming a reality, as taxpayers across the state cannot afford to wait any longer for relief." A Cap was never the end game the Middle and Working Class home owners required but it's something to at least limit increases to 2%, and by next year hopefully get Property Tax cuts in place. You work your life for a home and to retire into it, and as soon as you’re on a fixed income you’re taxed out of it in a few years. This has to stop!
MCM
Gov. Cuomo Puts Breaks Spending:
Mayor you can’t blame the Teachers Unions for the mess NYS is in, because that’s just hyperbole pure and simple. Post Columnist Robert Ward said, “Cuomo is making clear he wants to reduce the influence "permanent" formulas. That would make it far easier to slow the spending growth that has been in place since FDR was President in 1930’s. The state sends school aid to more than 700 local districts and regional cooperatives. Thousands of hospitals, nursing homes, physicians, home-health businesses, transportation providers and others get Medicaid funding. Rather than appropriate specific amounts for each of these, the Legislature writes formulas into state law -- sending each district so many dollars for each elementary-school pupil, each hospital so much for a day of care for each patient, and so on.
The state sends school aid to more than 700 local districts and regional cooperatives. Thousands of hospitals, nursing homes, physicians, home-health businesses, transportation providers and others get Medicaid funding. Rather than appropriate specific amounts for each of these, the Legislature writes formulas into state law -- sending each district so many dollars for each elementary-school pupil, each hospital so much for a day of care for each patient, and so on. These funding formulas drive the baseline spending for each new budget. In the fiscal year starting April 1, for example, existing law requires $2.9 billion more in aid to local schools. Much of that increase is driven by the state's basic "foundation aid" formula proposed by then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer and enacted in 2007.
Suggestion I’ve made before: have independent auditors review every contract NYS signs agreement with, from builders to supply good and services providers, and then trim the fat from bloated costs to overtime. You’ll save billions.
MCM
No one said the teacher union is solely responsible for the mess NYS is in, Mikey. They are a large part of it, but certainly not the only reason we're a corrupt and dying state. The rest of your post sounds strangely similiar to what we always hear from you people. Lots of words, followed by a plea to cut expenses from some other part of the budget. If I understand this edition of scatterthought, you are blaming the people who supply NYS with goods and services. Neat. If you think there is money to be made by delivering product to NYS, then by all means, make a million and do so. My experience suggests many providers have withdrawn from doing business with the state. They don't like getting paid six months down the road. I only wish you would remain on topic. Medicaid and education are the two biggest expenditures. They have to be cut because we can no longer afford what we are doing. I gotta give it to you. You're the perfect NYer. Much better than me. No matter what, you never cease the struggle to avoid fiscal reality. If they don't hire you as a teacher, they should certainly consider putting up a lighted bronze statue of you at the state education building.
Anon 8:45 Are you kidding every other word out of you mouth is Teachers Union this or Teacher that ... you people couldn't care less about affordable healthcare so don't get me started!
MCM
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