«This legislation is about what is right and fair in making sure that
localities live up to their responsibility to retirees that their promised health care coverage will continue to be there,» Donohue said.
Kellogg said that for her and her running mates, the big challenges facing Hurley are, «Making a change in our local government, protecting the quality of
life that we have in Hurley as development pressures move
up the Thruway, protecting our water and the beautiful scenic qualities of our town, and maintaining our low tax rates as NYS mandates additional
responsibilities to the
localities without providing funding (at the same time that they cap our annual budget increases) and as we get additional pressures from New York City
to reduce their tax contributions for the reservoir property.»
«Lawmakers understand there's a moral and an economic impact when the state abandons people with mental health challenges and fails
to reinvest in community care — it's an unfunded mandate when
localities have
to pick
up the pieces of broken
lives simply because the state has abandoned its
responsibilities.»