Paterson To Legislative Leaders: Lower Your Costs Too
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- April
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After earlier this week calling on state agencies to lower spending, Gov. Paterson told legislative leaders, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Court of Appeals Chief Judge Judith Kaye that means you too.
“The enacted budget financial plan assumes that the Legislature, the Department of Law, the Office of the State Comptroller and the Office of Court Administration will join in this effort and reduce their operating budgets by 3.35 percent,” Paterson wrote to them today.
(Here they all are, right, at his swearing-in ceremony March 17.)
“To the extent that your agency does not achieve anticipated savings, deeper reductions will be required in other agencies. ”
The letter may be pouring salt into the wounds of Judge Kaye who is suing the state over a lack of pay raises for judges. But Paterson says tough fiscal times means everyone needs to cut back.
Earlier in the day, he told reporters in Manhattan that he would like to seek mid-year budget cuts too.
“I would not mind if we open this budget process up and address next year’s problem this year,” he said.
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on Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at 3:11 pm by Joseph Spector.
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Paterson knows what is coming. The problem is that he should not have signed off on the current budget plan in the first place. He shouts out for cuts, but many communities just tax and spend. They don’t want to listen.
Neither do those who live in the Albany Pork Barrel.