State lawmakers are combing through the governor’s, the Senate’s and the Assembly’s budget proposals looking for common ground and a final budget to run the state next fiscal year in the next two weeks. Rockland State Senator, Republican Bill Weber of the 38th District, says there’s more money on the table over last year, some of it for good purposes…
Assemblyman Chris Eachus of the 99th District, covering Stony Point and parts of Orange County, says the two houses will merge their budgets, and then negotiate with the governor for the final budget…
Governor Kathy Hochul’s Executive Budget proposal comes out to just over $250 billion dollars. The deadline for the spending plan to be passed is April first. It was just over two weeks late last year.