The New York State Assembly and Senate came out with their budgets for the next fiscal year on Thursday last week. Now with just two weeks before the budget deadline, negotiations are underway between the lawmakers and the governor, who released her spending plan earlier this year. On the Senate floor last week, Rockland State Senator, Republican Bill Weber of the 38th District, called the Senate version unsustainable, and voted against it…
With just two weeks left to the budget deadline, Al Samuels, CEO of the Rockland Business Association, says he’d rather see a late budget than a rushed, bad budget…
Governor Kathy Hochul released her $233 billion budget proposal in January. The Senate and Assembly’s versions added about $13 billion each in spending.