Wednesday, January 25

This cold icy weather offers an excellent opportunity to stay indoors and do some heavy reading.

Governor Cuomo released his proposed 2017-18 budget on January 18th, and hearings in Albany began on January 24th.

The hearing schedule has been organized.

Budget documents are available on the Division of the Budget website.

Read an analysis of the Health/Medicaid portion of the budget by the Mental Health Association in NYS..

Read the NYS Senate analysis of the budget(the white book).

Read the NYS Assembly analysis (the yellow book).

The NYS 2017-2018 Budget makes for excellent dinner conversation and bedtime reading material.  You can always download the pdfs and read them offline.