Hey HR and Recruiting leaders - It's the early
days of budget season - or at least prep for budget season - for a lot of you.
While this agenda item must compete with those of various other agencies and advocacy organizations jockeying for program funding at the
end of the budget season, the potential risks of shuttering nonprofits could be particularly devastating across the city, as has been demonstrated recently.
Senate GOP Leader John Flanagan, Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, and Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie spoke after their first General Conference Committee
meeting of the budget season.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo just called a three - way leaders meeting with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — the first such get -
together of this budget season.
One
hallmark of the budget season, the closed - door leaders meetings between the governor, Senate majority leader and Assembly speaker, are yet to be held.
But de Blasio, by making the mistake of canceling those charters in the
middle of the budget season, may end up stumbling into more money for pre-K.»
«Our beef has been for the last year we've been trying to direct the governor's attention and his staff on this project because there were problems as far back as the
beginning of the budget season last year,» said Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi in a Capital Tonight interview.
The announcement also comes as Albany is entering the
thick of budget season, with a spending plan scheduled to pass by later next week.
Initially announcing meetings during the
height of the budget season, talk quietly died away of the hearings, only for Heastie's office to announce them amid a vocal disagreement with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office over the ongoing feud with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Mayor Bill de Blasio's press secretary, Karen Hinton, will leave City Hall at the
end of the budget season, according to an announcement from City Hall.
Inspired by Simon's Guy Fawkes day post and still being in the
midst of budget season I thought it appropriate to think, and write, about what services should be blown up.
Various special interests — and I use that term in the loosest of fashions, not necessarily in the axis of evil definition a certain governor has adopted to refer to a select few groups — are using this Hallmark holiday in hopes of breaking through the cacophony at the Capitol at the height
of budget season.
The chambers will be meet virtually every week day in March, the height
of the budget season, save for every Friday.
That is largely in line with what CSNY reportedly had planned to spend back in March, the height
of the budget season.
The calendar shows two four - day day weeks in March during the height
of the budget season, with the spending plan due March 31.