New York governor’s budget proposes $1B school aid increase

“Homeless shelters are our invisible city”, he said.

“All right Assemblyman sit down”, Cuomo said. “For five years [Cuomo] has failed to find $3 billion in funding for the new Tappan Zee Bridge”, says Astorino. Other proposals include pardons for young offenders who don’t commit new crimes, more municipal contracting with minority and women-owned businesses and adding college courses in prisons.

Overall, the governor is proposing a $144 billion budget, an increase of 1.7 percent from past year.

It was a far cry from previous year, when in a more combative tone he tied $1.1 billion in additional state education aid to individual merit pay, more charter schools, punishing struggling schools, and making teacher evaluation hinge on state test scores.

Assemblyman Al Stirpe, D-Cicero, said he loved most of Cuomo’s proposals, but predicted Cuomo will struggle to get the $15 minimium wage passed by the Senate.

While Barron was being escorted out, Cuomo chastised his interruption.

Barron heckled Cuomo in the same hall in 2011, when the governor spoke at a dinner of the Black and Puerto Rican legislative caucus.

Cuomo’s spending on tourism and business ads has drawn criticism as wasteful spending, but the Democratic governor has defended the ads, saying that tourism in NY has soared as a result. The two men have had a contentious relationship, most recently centered on homelessness. De Blasio later played down any rift with Cuomo and said he met for a half-hour with the governor. “It was a productive conversation”.

“This nation has real problems that we haven’t seen before and with the gridlock in Washington I am not going to rely on them to solve them”, Cuomo told a packed convention center in the address that lasted for over an hour and half. He proposed changing some of the practices that factored heavily in the trials, including closing the LLC loophole, which allows corporations to form Limited Liability Corporations and donate unlimited amounts of money to candidates.

He said Cuomo is a hypocrite who doesn’t care about the true state of the state.

The governor jolted educators last January by calling teacher evaluations “baloney” and rallying for another overhaul of the state’s teacher evaluation system. He also will fund a $90 million program to expand breast cancer screenings. We took that question to lawmakers.

The governor claimed this budget plan holds the line on spending. “I couldn’t keep track of all the billions the governor was talking about today”. Oh, yeah: The gov also rolled out a $145 billion budget for the year.

But immediately, and rightly so, parts of Cuomo’s pie-in-the-sky presentation – kicked off with a sweet video of positive NY news set to an upbeat melody – were under the microscope. “The cold truth is that this state government shortchanged upstate NY for many years and that was short-sided”. “Working together we can develop and implement community-driven plans that will confront head-on the specific challenges facing families and individuals living in poverty”.

“They want $20 billion for housing/homeless”. We budgeted less to be on the safe side. Among other things, he’s proposing spending on transportation, the environment, and homeless shelters.

Kolb: “Well, I hope not…” He reimagined NY and is investing $100 billion to better our quality of life and provide great middle class jobs. State lawmakers will begin considering the budget this month. If approved by the Legislature, they would be available to firms with net income below $290,000 then phased up to the 6.5 rate available to companies with incomes above $390,000.