Legislative
leaders and the Pataki administration have been discussing
options for refinancing the state Superfund and adopting a
statewide brownfield program, but prospects for a resolution
are uncertain, according to Ken Pokalsky, The Council's director
of environmental and economic development programs
ALBANYNew York continued to pull out of the population decline of the
1970s during the last decade, but growth in the state still lagged behind
most of the country, according to a new report by The Public Policy Institute,
the research affiliate of The Business Council of New York State
ALBANYSchool
districts across New York State plan to raise spending more than 2.5 times
the rate of inflation, and increase property taxes more than 7 percent, a
new "School Tax Watch" study by The Public Policy Institute finds.
The increase in property-tax levies, more than four times the rate of inflation,
comes despite the Legislature's imposition of a $1
Amid
reports that the state is considering a significant increase
in average workers' comp costs, The Business Council is stepping
up its efforts to highlight the need for cost-cutting reforms
and to oppose actions that would worsen the burden of comp
costs
ALBANYAlmost 5,700 New York State business leaders have faxed over
28,000 letters to elected officials this eyar urging them not to increase
state taxes. Almost a third of those correspondents logged on after the Legislature
voted to increase income, sales and corporate taxes, but before it overrode
Governor Pataki's veto of those tax increases
The
Legislature overrode Governor George Pataki's vetoes to impose
the first increases in state personal-income and sales taxes
in three decades, along with targeted increases in business
taxes.
Despite
multi-million-dollar lobbying campaigns by public-employee
unions, however, The Business Council was successful in persuading
legislators not to adopt the "New Jersey plan" of
major, across-the-board corporate tax increases
Cutting
spending and making government more productive could save
New York City from the economic damage that would inevitably
result from proposed tax increases, according to former Governor
Hugh L. Carey and other business and civic leaders
More
than 600 people from New York State businesses, state government,
and local chambers of commerce attended The Business Council's
Public Policy Institute Forum and State Chamber Dinner May
13 in Albany.
Three
major leaders in the business communityJames W
The
Legislature overrode Governor George Pataki's vetoes to impose
the first increases in state personal-income and sales taxes
in three decades, along with targeted increases in business
taxes.
Despite
multi-million-dollar lobbying campaigns by public-employee
unions, however, The Business Council was successful in persuading
legislators not to adopt the "New Jersey plan" of
major, across-the-board corporate tax increases
ALBANYThree major leaders in the business communityJames W. Kinnear,
Muriel Siebert, and Eric Mowerwill address a major forum in Albany on
"Corporate Leadership and Ethics." The event is set for Monday, May 12, from
3:30 to 5:15 p.m. in Hearing Room "C" of the Legislative Office Building