This letter by CBC President Carol Kellermann to the State Legislature suggests two strategic directions to guide budget policy in FY2009-2010 and offers a roadmap to help steer a course that avoids harmful tax increases and makes spending better serve New Yorkers by offering reforms in five key areas: Medicaid, school aid, correctional facilities, public employee benefits, and programs like ST
CBC President Carol Kellermann discusses Governor David Paterson's offer of a menu of more than $1 billion in savings proposals from which he challenged legislators to select $600 million worth when they convened in Albany for a special session.
CBC President Carol Kellermann issues a statement on Governor David Paterson’s proposed spending cuts, which would reduce New York State’s budget this year by more than $1 billion.
In response to Governor David Paterson’s call to action on New York State spending, CBC releases a list of options that would generate more than $4 billion in annual savings for New York State.
CBC releases a letter to New York State legislators recommending five changes to Governor Eliot Spitzer’s Executive Budget that would make it better suited to the current, uncertain, economic times, as well as more effective in using precious tax resources to support essential public services, and more supportive of lowered local tax burdens.
One place where the State can extract savings is in its prison system, an option that this op-ed discusses. New York simply does not need all 69 of its correctional facilities. Some of those facilities are now more than half-empty, particularly at the medium- and minimum-security level.
This testimony addresses key challenges facing State leaders: Maintaining the commitments that have already been made, leaving capacity for future needs to be funded, and identifying and adopting measures to make spending more cost effective to yield much needed financial plan savings.
This background paper focuses on the issue of more effective use of state fiscal resources. It was prepared to inform discussion among the participants at the second of the three agenda-setting conferences organized by CBC in the months of September, October and November 2007 to promote fiscal reform. The paper is organized into two sections.
This testimony presents four reforms that would help reduce the inmate population by developing and extending alternative programs. Such reforms would free resources for other purposes while maintaining or improving public safety.
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