Senate to hold budget hearing in Westchester
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Senate Democrats announced today that they have added two more public hearings on Gov. David Paterson’s proposal to close the state’s $3 billion budget deficit. One of the hearings runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 29 at the Greenburgh Public Library in Elmsford, Westchester County, and the other is Nov. 2 in Buffalo.
The Westchester hearing will focus largely on education and local governments.
Paterson’s proposal to close the budget gap includes reducing education aid by $686 million through the end of the school year, cutting Medicaid by $287 million, and reducing spending on other health-care programs and mental hygiene by $184 million.
The Senate previously announced public hearings in New York City and on Long Island.
Paterson has not set a date for a special session to close the deficit, but he said today that it would be in the next week or two.
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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. 
