Sadly, no recommendations on the Taylor Law (maybe bacause poeple like Kate Foster benefit from it?!!!) so as good as much of it is, it failed to address the state's biggest problem.

This is rich. This is a state funded project aimed at telling local governments to be more cost effective when the most taxing (no pun intended) problems exist at the state level... where is the commission telling the state how to get its house in order... The funniest part of the whole thing is that Sam Hoyt is the host- Sam... if you're reading, you (and similarly situated elected officials) are a HUGE part of the problem.

The two previous posts have it exactly right. It is so exacerbating to have elected officials like Sam Hoyt and an apathetic electorate. It is refreshing to see that at least three voters….. Get it!

If it helps any, there's at least four. Somebody at the meeting should complain to Hoyt about this, too:

Albany stalemate over low-interest IDA funding delays WNY projects By Tom Precious News Albany Bureau Updated: 05/14/08 9:09 AM

ALBANY -- Construction should have started by now on a permanent home for Buffalo's Tapestry Charter School - not to mention several other big projects at schools and hospitals throughout Western New York.

But due to a political fight in Albany, the work is on hold as state legislators debate whether and how to extend a law that permits local industrial finance agencies to provide low-interest loans for construction projects by nursing homes, colleges, libraries, hospitals and other civic and nonprofit groups.

... A chief sticking point is whether groups getting IDA loans must pay higher, union-level wages for construction workers on projects, such as a new school.

...Sponsoring the union-backed measure is Buffalo Assemblyman Sam Hoyt. ...But critics, including groups from the New York Conference of Mayors and the Business Council, say provisions like the union-level wage requirement make the Hoyt bill unaffordable for upstate.

...Further, it requires "living wage" salaries be the minimum for employees of any private or nonprofit entity getting IDA financing. In Western New York, that means a minimum pay of $14.59 an hour, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor-funded think tank that is supporting the bill. Critics say that would force groups like YMCAs or libraries or nursing homes that get IDA financing to pay that rate. ...

Whole thing: http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/346293.html