The Assembly is working to put New York on the road to fiscal recovery

The Assembly budget proposal puts
New York’s working families first
Responsibly closes $9.2 billion budget deficit, while rejecting $1 billion in proposed tax and fee increases – including the $450 million syrup tax
Restores $600 million of the governor’s $1.4 billion cut to education aid
  • Reduces the burden on local school property taxpayers
  • Rejects special education cost shift onto school districts
Keeping the college dream alive
  • Restores community college base aid to its prior level
  • Restores cuts to TAP awards
“The Assembly has created a families-first fiscal plan – one that makes realistic and critical funding restorations that New Yorkers need.”
Assemblymember Nelson L. Castro
2488 Grand Concourse, Suite 310-11
Bronx, NY 10458
718-933-6909
castronl@assembly.sate.ny.us
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