For the first time in a long time, the Albany bureaucrats listened – and New York has an on-time State Budget. The enacted spending plan was far from perfect – it involved tough, painful choices that began a long overdue process of reforming Albany’s tax-and-spend culture.

However, the important work of fixing state government – and changing how Albany does the people’s business – is far from finished. State government has miles to go before we can truly say New York is back on track and headed in the right direction.

We still have the second-highest combined state and local tax burden in the nation. Our homeowners still pay the highest property taxes in America. Nearly 800,000 New Yorkers are still unemployed. State government is still too big, too costly, and too bureaucratic. Bottom line? There is still much work that needs to be done.

Do you want to keep New York State moving in the right direction?

If your answer to that question is “Yes!” then please join me and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb at a Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, September 13 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Town of LeRay Municipal Office, 8650 LeRay Street in Evans Mills. We will be having an important conversation about the “People’s Convention to Reform New York”, a non-partisan grassroots reform effort that will benefit taxpayers like you.

Seating is limited, so RSVP for this Town Hall meeting today by calling Kathleen Lisson in the Assembly Minority Office of Public Affairs at (518) 455-5073. Then visit www.reformny.org to join nearly 2,500 New Yorkers who support a “People’s Convention.”

I look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, September 13 at this special Town Hall meeting. Together, we will move another step closer to the less costly, more affordable New York State we deserve!

If you cannot attend this special Town Hall meeting, then feel free to contact me at my district office, 315-493-3909, 15 Bridge Street, West Carthage, or email me at blankenbushk@assembly.state.ny.us.