COUNTY RESIDENTS INVITED TO COMMENT ON $121B STATE BUDGET by Ken Mahoney

COUNTY RESIDENTS INVITED TO COMMENT ON $121B STATE BUDGET by Ken Mahoney

County residents one week from today will have an opportunity to comment on the Governor’s proposed $121 billion dollar state budget. Rockland’s entire state legislative delegation is sponsoring the public hearing, which will begin 2PM Thursday, February 12th at the Suffern Library. Participants will each be given three minutes to speak.

State lawmakers are now struggling to approve spending cuts for the next fiscal year as they wrestle with ways to make up for a $15.4 billion dollar current year deficit. Both houses Tuesday agreed to $1.6 billion in cuts to plug up an addition budgetary shortage spanning 2007-2008.