Purpose
New York State Senate Finance Committee Chair Carl Kruger and Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chair Herman “Denny” Farrell will conclude the joint budget examining the full fiscal consequences—including proposed cuts—of the Governor’s budget on human and social service programs on Tuesday.. This hearing was postponed as a result of weather earlier in the month.
For a comprehensive look into this year’s budget, including ways to get involved, tracking testimony from joint hearings, and the Senate Majority’s review of the Governor’s proposed budget visit http://www.nysenate.gov/initiative/budget2010.
When: February 23 @ 9:30 A.M.
Where: Hearing Room B – Legislative Office Building
Expected to Testify:
NYS Association of Area Agencies on Aging
AARP
Schuyler Center for Analysis & Advocacy
Association of NYS Youth Bureaus
Early Care & Learning Council
New York Kincare Coalition
Citizens Committee for Children
Campaign for Summer Jobs
Fight Crime Invest in Kids NY
NYS Community Action Association
NY Public Welfare Association
Children’s Defense Fund NY
Prevent Child Abuse NY
Families Together in NYS
Nutrition consortium of NYS
Supportive Housing Network of NYS
Human Services Council
United Way of New York State
NYS Catholic Conference
Catholic Charities Caregivers Support
NYS Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Displaced Homemaker Program
Coalition For the Homeless
Hunger Action Network
Empire Justice Center
Jericho Project Linda Myricks
Consumer Directed Personal Assistant Assoc NYS
Housing Works
United Tenants of Albany
United Neighborhood Houses
Fiscal Policy Institute
Hearing will be streamed live online at http://www.livestream.com/nysenate_joint_budget.
