The State Senate’s Task Force on Government Efficiency [5], chaired by State Senator and Deputy Majority Leader Jeff Klein, commended NYS Director of State Operations Valerie Grey and NYS Budget Director Robert Megna on Wednesday for placing a moratorium on overtime in all Executive Branch agencies.
“Nearly six months after the release of the first investigation by my office which found egregious and unnecessary overtime being spent at a rapid rate by a state agency and nearly three months after the State Senate launched the Senate Taskforce on Government Efficiency which continued to uncover tens of millions of dollars in wasteful overtime spending, I am pleased to see state Budget Director Robert Megna and Director of State Operations Valerie Grey have recognized this is a practice we simply cannot afford. New York State spends more than $400 million each year in overtime, putting an immediate end to unmandated overtime during this tough fiscal time is a difficult decision but a smart one - it's time for New York to get smart about spending abuses, and stop writing checks we can’t cash,” said State Senator and Deputy Majority Leader Jeffrey D. Klein [6] (D-Bronx/Westchester).
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