Joint Legislative Budget Hearing: Taxes

 New York State Senate Finance Committee Chair Carl Kruger, and Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chair Herman “Denny” Farrell, will hold a joint budget hearing focused on taxes, including the Governor’s proposed tax increases, on Monday, February 1, 2010.
 
When: February 1 @ 1 P.M.
 
Where: Hearing Room B – Legislative Office Building
 
Expected to Testify:
NYS Dept. of Taxation & Finance, Ms. Jamie Woodward, Acting Commissioner
 
Manhattan Institute Empire Center, E.J. McMahn
 
New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, Ron Deutsch, Executive Director
 
Fiscal Policy Institute, Frank Mauro, Executive Director
 
Verizon and NYS Telecommunication Association,  David Lamendola, Director of Government Relations & Robert Puckett, President of the NYS Telephone Association
 
                     NY Aviation Management Association, Joel Russell, President
 
                     Center for a Tobacco Free New York, Russell Marchione, Director
 
Citizens Committee for Children, Danielle Marchione, Director of Communication & Government Relations
 
                     Hunger Action Network, Andreas Kriefall, Upstate Director
 
                     Unshackle Upstate, Brian Sampson, Executive Director
 
                     Harter, Secrest & Emery, LLP, John Jennings, Attorney
 
                     New York Bio-Technology, Nathan Tinker, Executive Director
 
                     Teamster Local 812, John O’Neil, President
 
                     UFCW Local 1500, Pat Purcell, Assistant to President
 
                     National Supermarket Association, Nelson Eusebio, Executive Director
 
                     The Bodega Association of the United States, Ramon Murphy, President
 
                     NY Association of Convenience Stores, Jim Calvin, Executive Director
 
                     Food Industry Alliance of NY, Michael Rosen, Vice President
 
NYS Business Council, Marcus Ferguson, Director of Government Affairs
 
                     Northbridge Environmental Management Consultants, Kevin Dietly, Principal
 
                     Pepsi New York, Mark Johnson, CFO
 
Hearing will be streamed live online at http://www.livestream.com/nysenate_joint_budget
 
** For a full calendar of joint budget hearings visit: http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/schedule-joint-legislative-public-hearings-2010-2011-executive-budget-proposal