PRESS RELEASE– The Board of Trustees of the Pearl River Public Library announces that the annual Budget Vote and Trustee Election is scheduled to be held at the Pearl River Public Library on Tuesday, June 6, 2017. There will be a Budget Hearing on Tuesday, May 30 at 7:15 p.m. The Pearl River Public Library Board of Trustees […]
Recent Reforms Will Improve IDA Transparency and Accountability FROM THE COMPTROLLER’S OFFICE New York’s Industrial Development Agencies (IDAs) provided $695 million in net tax exemptions in 2015, an increase of 10 percent from the prior year, according to a report issued Monday by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. “New York’s IDAs are tasked with […]
BY MARC MOSS Fred Brinn, in his capacity of mayor of the Village of New Hempstead, has filed a lawsuit against three the Village Board of Trustees claiming that actions taken by a majority of the Board were illegal and wasteful of village resources. In papers filed this week in Rockland Supreme Court, Mayor Brinn […]
FROM EMPIRE CENTER Federal “block-granting” of Medicaid could have outcomes ranging from a multi-billion dollar gain to a multi-billion loss for New York’s $63 billion program, depending on how such a reform is designed, according to an analysis by the Empire Center’s health policy director, Bill Hammond. Block-granting, under discussion as part of proposed Obamacare replacement legislation, […]
PRESS RELEASE– Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Director Frances A. Scott, of the F.A. Scott Insurance Agency, in Goshen, met with Sen. William J. Larkin Jr., R-39; Assemblyman James Skoufis, D-99; and Assemblywoman Aileen M. Gunther, D-100, to discuss PIANY’s 2017 legislative priorities as part of the association’s District Office Visit Program. Both Larkin […]
FROM NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES (NYSAC) The State Legislature last week addressed two significant cost shifts in the 2017-18 Executive State Budget proposal. The first one addressed a cost shift in public health problems, which was rejected by both the Senate and Assembly in their respective one house budget bills. “County taxpayers cannot […]