The frantic and secretive nature of state budget adoption leaves a lot to digest afterward. (gothamgazette.com)
City Council President - elect Carmella Mantello in a letter to the council called for delaying the final budget adoption vote until Dec. 1, the deadline set in the city charter, to provide more time to work on the budget. (timesunion.com)
Second: Timeliness of budget adoption is among the dumbest of measures on a governor's power; very bad budgets can happen on time, and that is no barometer of a governor's relative power. (nystateofpolitics.com)