The
agreement marks the «resolution of a long -
standing budgetary risk for the city,» as Moody's described it, and sets a pattern for the over 150 expired
labor contracts that is below inflation rate.
Then there is County Executive Mike Hein, Senator Larkin, Senator Tkaczyk, Assemblyman Skartados, Assemblyman Pete Lopez, County Comptroller Auerbach, the Ulster County Legislature, Mayor Gallo, town supervisors from across Ulster County, CSEA — the County's largest
labor union — and the editorial boards of every major newspaper in the Hudson Valley all
standing together in
agreement that Kevin Cahill needs to fix what he has broken.