State AG Andrew Cuomo expanded his ruling on the payment of benefits to public authority board members today, telling the Thruway and Power Authorities to cease such activities. This judgement comes on the heels of a similar announcement which we covered here.
Such a ruling, especially in terms of the Thruway Authority which you can read more about here, is a long time coming. As illustrated in the aforementioned posting, the largest portion of authority budgets generally go to personnel costs.
Just to review, when the initial judgement was released we spoke with Ed Marianetti, Executive Director, of the Monroe County Water Authority whose board members receive Medicaid benefits and eligibility for the state pension system. Marianetti said that he did not believe the AG's ruling applied to the MCWA.
The WBP has again contacted the AG's office for clarification of the scope of this judgement, more to come -
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