Local Governments Report Due Out Today (Updated)
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- April
- 30
The report from the State Commission on Local Government Efficiency and Competitiveness came out this morning from Gov. David Paterson, left, with committee members, and it recommends 76 ways for local governments to lower costs.You can view the report here:
The recommendations include giving local governments and school districts incentives to merge and renegotiating contracts with public workers to reduce benefits.
Here are some of the other recommendations in the report:
—Have public employees pay 25 percent of the cost of their health insurance, phased in over five years.—Allow local governments to renegotiate contracts with their employee unions if they agree to merge.—Merge smaller school districts and eliminate some villages and other local governments.—Make positions in town and county governments like highway superintendent, assessor, town clerk, tax receiver and coroner appointed rather than elected jobs.—Build regional jails to replace county facilities.—Give newly hired workers lower pension benefits than current workers get.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
