Galef Supports On-Time State Budget and New State Revenues for 90th Assembly District

Assemblywoman Sandy Galef, a strong advocate for on-time state budgets, is ecstatic today that a state budget was adopted before April 1st breaking a twenty year streak of late budgets. The 2005-06 state budget contains new revenues for the school districts and municipalities in the 90th Assembly District as well as capping Medicaid costs in Putnam and Westchester Counties.

"What a special year it has been in Albany," stated Galef. "We have adopted major reforms of the legislature and adopted an on-time budget for the first time in a decade. We have also shown that you can pass a good state budget on time. The work of the Assembly/Senate Joint Conference Committees led to important compromises to make this happen."

The schools in the 90th A.D. will receive additional school aid totaling $5,503,956.




Carmel $ 1, 897,465 11.28%
Haldane $ 65,080 5.09%
Garrison $ 28,115 6.30%
Putnam Valley $ 254,909 6.90%
Hendrick Hudson $ 131,725 4.43%
Ossining $ 445,196 5.18%
Briarcliff Manor $ 127,493 3.71%
Peekskill $ 1,169,972 6.47%
Lakeland $ 1,344,626 4.75%
Croton Harmon* $ -63,409 -3.23%

*An additional $ 102,784 was secured by Galef in special aid to the school district

Municipalities in the 90th A.D. will receive an additional in $239,768 state aid.

TOTAL INCREASE
Peekskill $ 1,899,502 $ 214,800
Cortlandt $ 161,666 $ 5,843
Ossining (Town) $ 129,698 $ 4,688
Kent $ 49,802 $ 1,800
Philipstown $ 28,860 $ 1,043
Putnam Valley $ 35,044 $ 1,267
Cold Spring $ 14,111 $ 510
Nelsonville $ 2,846 $ 500
Briarcliff Manor $ 31,088 $ 1,124
Buchanan $ 15,247 $ 551
Croton $ 38,697 $ 1,399
Ossining (Village) $ 172,724 $ 6,243

"With this new revenue coming to the communities I represent, it will help lower the local tax burden," commented Galef. "By the state agreeing to put a cap on the Medicaid program, both Putnam and Westchester Counties will be able to better control their county tax growth, shifting more of the financial responsibility for Medicaid programs from the counties to the state and adopting $389 million in Medicaid cost containment will eventually allow state assumption of the Medicaid program."

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