State advisory board set to release findings

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Rick Karlin

Albany

A state board set up to advise financially strapped local governments is close to releasing its first recommendations.

With that, advisers for the state's new Financial Restructuring Board appear to be learning some lessons in municipal cost-cutting, and they are getting an up-close view of how state laws governing items from labor contracts to electricity prices pose challenges to saving taxpayer dollars.

"I think there was a learning curve for them," said Robert Woodward Sr., mayor Fulton a city in Oswego County. It is the first municipality to seek advice from the board.

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/State-advisory-board-set-to-release-findings-5515135.php


Of course the bastards will cut the poor first.