In his state of the budget address earlier this month, Cuomo proposed a reduction of juvenile beds from 1,209 to 833. He also wants to reduce the Office of Child and Family Services’ budget by $149 million and provide reimbursement incentives for local alternatives to incarceration for low and medium risk juvenile offenders.
But there are smaller cuts too.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg refused to blame Governor Andrew Cuomo for the tough cuts he made in his 2011-2012 executive budget proposal, but that doesn’t mean he’s happy with it.
It's been three months since New Jersey Governor Chris Christie nixed the ARC rail tunnel project, and New York State Senator Chuck Schumer is pushing to get the project back in the works.
The new governor says he'll review the increases, which were requested by the police agency after a union agreement bumped some salaries to $170,756, topping executive staff pay.
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