Report: NY prison costs are higher than budget

Lawmakers criticized for budget votes at night

By The Associated Press
POSTED: March 27, 2013
Tags: Budget, New York’s Legislature, vampire voting

ALBANY — Good-government groups are slamming New York’s legislature for what one senator called “vampire” voting because much of the new $135 billion budget is built on reviving taxes and the bills are being voted on in the dead of night. The Assembly is preparing to give final legislative approval to the budget, likely during [...]

NY lawmakers blast proposed ‘Tonight’ tax credit

By The Associated Press
POSTED: March 23, 2013
Tags: Budget, lawmakers, proposed tax credit, The Tonight Show

ALBANY — Some New York lawmakers are upset with a proposed tax credit that would benefit NBC if it moves “The Tonight Show” from California to New York City. As reports circulated that Jimmy Fallon is poised to become the show’s host, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a bill that would give a 30 percent credit [...]

City budget forum

By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: March 19, 2013
Tags: Budget

Rochester Mayor Thomas S. Richards will conduct the first of four quadrant “Voice of the Citizen” budget forums at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 21 at the Freddie Thomas Campus, 625 Scio St. The VOC budget forums are to provide citizens an opportunity to discuss, provide feedback and be involved in the process of preparing Rochester’s [...]

State pushes to settle budget early

By The Associated Press
POSTED: March 11, 2013
Tags: Budget, early, New York’s Legislature

ALBANY — New York’s Legislature is calling for more spending, tax cuts and a higher minimum wage, even a roll-back of a new gun control law in their budget counter-proposals. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo says money is short. He noted legislative proposals are often used for political posturing and often aren’t likely to change the [...]

County legislators OK budget for 2013

By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: December 12, 2012
Tags: Budget, County legislators, spending plan

Monroe County legislators in a party-line vote Tuesday night OK’d a more than $1 billion spending plan for 2013. The budget includes slight increases in areas of legal spending, including the law department, public defender’s office, district attorney’s office and county clerk’s office. In addition to plans for implementation of electronic record filing in the [...]

E-filing in budget plans for clerk’s office

By Mike Murphy
POSTED: December 6, 2012
Tags: Budget, electronic filing, Monroe County Clerk

The Monroe County Clerk’s proposed $7.2 million budget for next year includes an increase in spending of $133,754, as well as plans to build on the electronic filing of land and court records. The clerk’s downtown operations budget of $3 million shows an increase of about $75,000. The auto license bureau also shows about a [...]

State judiciary presents another austere budget

By Denise Champagne
POSTED: December 3, 2012
Tags: Budget, State judiciary, Unified Court System

The state’s fiscal constraints, coupled with the costs of Hurricane Sandy, were taken into consideration by the Unified Court System, which Friday presented another austere budget proposal to the governor and Legislature. The judiciary’s general fund operating budget request for 2013-14 is $1.75 billion, a decrease of $212,013 from the current fiscal year, which ends [...]

Judiciary budget remains intact

By Denise Champagne
POSTED: April 2, 2012
Tags: Budget, funding, Legislature, State judiciary

The state judiciary’s proposed austere spending plan made it through the budget process intact. The Legislature, which received the $2.3 billion proposal Dec. 1, included the funding in the overall executive budget passed Friday. “Certainly the chief judge and chief administrative judge are very pleased,” said David Bookstaver, spokesman for the Unified Court System, Office [...]

Budget process begins, heads to on-time passage

By The Associated Press
POSTED: March 26, 2012
Tags: Budget, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York State

ALBANY — New York’s Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have quietly agreed to some of the budget bills they hope to pass this week. Three massive budget bills were submitted just before midnight Sunday so they could “age” as required over three days to allow public review before they are voted into law. The $132 [...]

Bernanke cautions about budget shocks next year

By The Associated Press
POSTED: February 7, 2012
Tags: Budget, Chairman Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, tax cuts

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is urging senators to resolve debates over tax cuts that expire this month and at the end of the year, saying uncertainty around both could slow the economy. Bernanke tells a Senate panel that he agrees with an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that growth would slow [...]

DiNapoli: Praise, warning on Cuomo budget

By The Associated Press
POSTED: February 7, 2012
Tags: Budget, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, Gov. Andrew Cuomo

ALBANY — State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli praised Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal as a continued plan for fiscal restraint, but warned that the governor also wants to use the budget to grab power and reduce public oversight and accountability in the spending of billions of taxpayer dollars. The state’s top fiscal officer said Tuesday his analysis [...]