Sentences with phrase «local government consolidation»
But the governor is a longtime proponent of local government consolidation.
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Onondaga County Comptroller Robert Antonacci is speaking out against the Consensus CNY commission's preliminary report on local government consolidation released earlier this year.
Still on the table: Education funding — a battle that is again pitting traditional public schools against charters — worker's compensation reforms that the business community and its Senate GOP allies have been pushing, and the governor's ongoing desire for local government consolidation.
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino in a radio interview on Monday blasted the plan approved in the 2017 - 18 state budget that encourages local government consolidation and sharing of services.
Second is the thought that a 75 - member Legislature would be an example of the streamlined government that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has sought through local government consolidation in recent years.
Other topics included plans for spending the billions of dollars recently received by the state from penalties and settlements with large financial institutions, debating Astorino («we will have, uh... we will debate), local government consolidations whether he will commit to serving a full four year term if re-elected («what if I die?»)
But his version of property tax relief - tying local government consolidation to individual homeowners» tax credits - hasn't won over some state lawmakers and local government officials throughout the state.
The cap is one of the top economic achievements for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first term and this year he plans to once again pursue local government consolidations as a means of controlling spending on the municipal level.
Participation in other grant programs supporting local government consolidation does not disqualify entities for the match under the initiative.
The $ 20 million is part of $ 70 million Cuomo plans to include in his proposed 2016 - 17 state budget to incentivize local government consolidations, reorganizations and efficiencies.
This major study of more than 4,500 New Yorkers, funded by the Dyson Foundation and conducted by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, takes an in - depth look at the issue of local government consolidation on a statewide level and in nine regions — the Capital Region, the Adirondacks, Western New York, the Finger Lakes, Central New York, the Mid-Hudson Valley, the Lower Hudson Valley, New York City, and Long Island.
Cuomo's point - person on local government consolidation is Dede Scozzafava, a former assemblywoman and tragically failed congressional candidate whom the governor appointed deputy secretary of state for local governments.
(Cuomo pushed through a bill he hoped would encourage local government consolidation; Schneiderman has made himself the king of revitalizing cities with land banks.)
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adoption of a real property tax cap, as advocated by Governor Paterson, coupled with significant mandate reform and local government consolidations - actions that would reduce the enormous size and cost of local government, and the state's crippling real property tax burden.
Andrew Cuomo is in favor of local government consolidation and so am I.
His local government consolidation proposal is specifically at local option and would have to be initiated locally.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A top aide for Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded this afternoon to a letter from more than 100 elected officials — including Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner — defending a proposal to tie property tax relief to local government consolidation.