‘Three men in a room’ to reconvene next week
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Gov. David Paterson plans to meet privately with legislative leaders next Thursday in New York City to talk about his plan to cap property taxes.
It will be the first time that new Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos will be one of the “three men in a room’’ that calls the shots at the Capitol. ( Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is the third.) Skelos took over last month as Senate majority leader from Joseph Bruno, who is quitting the Senate today.
Paterson has proposed that the state force school districts to limit annual increases in property-tax rates to a maximum of four percent, but lawmakers didn’t act on the idea during the legislative session that ended on June 24.
Skelos has signaled his willingness to back the idea, but Silver is opposed.
The Legislature is expected back at the Capitol for a brief session in September. The tax-cap idea may be considered then.
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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. 
