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The Unfinished Agenda: Next Steps for Fiscal Reform in New York State
April 7-8, 2006
IBM Learning Center, 20 Old Post Road, Armonk, NY
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Overview
On April 7-8, 2006, the Citizens Budget Commission convened a conference focused on "The Unfinished Agenda: Next Steps for Fiscal Reform in New York State." The goal of the conference was to increase momentum for reform in Albany in the critical areas of budget reform, debt reform, and the realignment of state and local fiscal responsibilities through consensus-building on a set of concrete priorities for action in the current and upcoming legislative sessions. In this sense, the conference was a sequel to the 2003 CBC conference that produced The Palisades Principles and is widely credited with triggering much of the recent public clamor for reform.
Participants in the event included 150 leaders from civic, government, business, and labor groups, as well as editorial writers, academics and policy experts. Prior to the conference, these participants received issue briefings in each of the three areas of reform that examined the problems facing the state and that explained several associated policy options that have been suggested and debated publicly. Participants also benefited from listening to the viewpoints of expert panelists assembled to inform and comment on the issues in each area of reform, and from active discussion with other conference participants.
Following panel and participant discussion, participants were asked to rate the importance of pursuing specific policy options on a scale of 0 to 5, with "0" for an option that was not useful and "5" for an option that was essential to reforming the state. Participants were also afforded the opportunity to write in ideas for reform that were not pre-listed on the ballot. CBC staff tabulated the results for each area of reform at the end of each panel session, and the results were presented in their totality at the end of the conference. The results are also posted here for your review - and as a guide for thinking about the next steps for reform in Albany.
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