“What else did you think that I was going to give to you?”.
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“Having people with diverse backgrounds, who have an understanding of the real world, has some extraordinary and inherent value”, Flanagan said.
Cuomo also says local municipalities need to find a way to consolidate.
The governor is proposing a $145 billion budget.
“We have made it easier for these businesses to grow and do business by revising some of our laws. They can’t take off work”.
You could say he was all over the map, but the map would have to be pretty big. “If you don’t come, you don’t get paid”, Cuomo said.
Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) drew tremendous applause for some aspects of his proposal – but others had area politicians shaking their heads. Akshar also doesn’t want the two issues tied together as negotiations progress in the state capitol. “The cold truth is that this state government shortchanged upstate NY for many years and that was short-sided”. It would be funded through employee payroll deductions.
The minimum wage across NY has been a heated debate among business owners, workers, and politicians.
“All right Assemblyman sit down”, Cuomo said. “It’s corporate welfare at its worse”. And if you take the Thruway listen to this: Cuomo wants to cut tolls for frequent users, keep tolls flat until 2020 and eliminate tolls for farmers.
Gelinas points out, “The $3 billion Penn plan isn’t really a full financing plan, but just a request to developers”.
In promoting community schools, Cuomo spoke of the challenges facing students in poor communities – poverty, one-parent households and nutrition needs, in addition to crime and violence.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, whom Cuomo has been openly feuding with for a year, got possibly the biggest ovation of the day from the crowd when he was introduced.
During the tour, Cuomo laid out much of his 2016 agenda leading up to the speech, including a pledge to spend $22 billion on upstate roads and bridges over the next five years, a $1 billion plan to freeze tolls on the state Thruway.
Moreover, once the prisoner reform program starts, the classes will be administered through the State University of New York and City University of New York Systems. The aid total increased $1.4 billion, or 6.4 percent, to a record $23.5 billion in the current fiscal year. We’d like more than that.
Barron accused the governor of shortchanging state schools by $4 billion.
Magnarelli said, “It’s great to say a $2.1 billion increase”. That may not be good enough as far as our conference is concerned.
Like many others, Senator Ranzenhofer decried the Gap Elimination Adjustment budget cuts for schools. Onondaga County districts lost $13 million previous year due to the GEA.
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Congress also has a 15 percent income limit, but state legislative leaders have opposed any limit on their outside income – which is allowed in the state constitution.
